Letters to the Editor
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worse than an opportunist
a mastermind! Sounds like we owe Dowd a lot, and we ought to pay up by sticking him in jail. Thanks, Sidney, this tale is so disgusting that I believe it completely.
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Political opportunism
Matthew Dowd's conversions from democrat to republican and then back to democrat, smacks of political opportunism of the worst kind. Where was his moral meter when he unleashed republican dirty tricks, what did he ever see in George W. Bush while governor of Texas, that convinced him that Bush was the man for both democrats and republicans? Did he not know that during Bush's tenure as governor, capital punishment reached its ugly zenith? Did he not know that Texas was on its way to a prison economy as George W. Bush crowded jails, prisons and penitentiaries with offenders (mostly minorities) that kept the capitalist engines greased with free labor? And was "every child" really living a tenth of Bush's opportunities? When I read his mea culpa in the NYT I had to barf. Who was he trying to assuage but the mean spirited republicans who saw welfare mothers as freeloaders while cheerleading the freeloadings of Kenneth Lay and Enron at the expense of the taxpayers; the demonizing of the Arab world while expediting the "rapture" for the second coming, so christians could bring "democracy" even if they had to kill every last Islamist in Iraq and Afghanistan; Oh please Matthew Dowd, people like you should just go away and find fame and fortune elsewhere. Who knows where he will hang his hat should the democrats remain spineless and let the republican machine mow them down again.
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The devil can apologize
My late father summed it up better than I ever could: "The devil can apologize til he's blue in the face for every evil thing he ever did... but he still ain't gettin' back into Heaven."
At least Lee Atwater showed genuine remorse before he died. That won't be the case with Dowd and Rove. Hell, Rove will stay alive for the next seventy years out of sheer evil, and his idea of retirement fun will involve setting homeless people on fire. When Rove finally does die, the morticians will never be able to wipe that smug, self-satisfied grin off his pasty face.
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Touche'
I find it very had to believe that Dowd (a conservative Texas Democrat) did not know more about Bush's qualifications, or at a minimum, his lack of competence.
Texas politics, from what I've read, was/is a pretty small world, where everyone knew/knows everyone else.
How could he not have read Molly Ivins' book on Bush's early political (and business) live?
Disingenuous & Unbelievable!
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Friends, It's Time for a Lesson in Southern Morality
Dear Friends:
Many of you were not raised in the Southern way nor do you understand the utility of confession in Southern politics. A confession, even a false one, covers a multitude of sins. Ergo we watch vapid liars, crooks, and cranks parade across the political stage as we gape, astonished at their mendacity, and amazed that no one else gets it. Tom Delay: born again and an honored speaker at many a Christian gathering. Why in the midst of his Texas legal problems, a local fundamentalist megachurch here in Houston had him lead Bible studies. George W. Bush, born again and certified cleansed by none other than that paragon of Christian virtue, Jerry Falwell. Newt Gingrich, born again? Maybe not, but married three times he was, and Pope James Dobson absolved him of his sins. Mr. Dowd is employing a time honored Southern tradition that gives everyone, even vapid liars, a second chance. As I was raised in a Southern Baptist tradition, and many of Salon's readers haven't a clue what that means, let me fill you in. Mr. Dowd is engaging in an altar call confession except rather than walking the aisle, then weeping uncontrollably on the pastor's shoulder, Dowd expects that his painful "revelation," his soul searing "introspection" made public in print, will right his past wrongs. If you hang around a Southern fundamentalist church long enough, you'll occasionally see the same person walking the aisle everytime an appeal is made for the congregation to "rededicate" their lives. Maybe in Dowd's case, the cure will "take," but my money is on him NOT ending up in Africa anytime soon. Follow the cash, and at the trail's end, there you will find Mr. Dowd, an opportunist till the end of his time.
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Sidney, you're not prone to humor, what gives?
Why would you want to send that frat boy Dowd off on a serious mission and bare his inabilities that much more? Send him to Africa for ten years Sidney, and chances are he'll ruin everything he comes in contact with anyway!
True, there's no doubt that his "conversion" lacked as much depth as his "analysis". But that's no reason to make someone who's never worked a day in his life go cold turkey.
Dowd is crazy, though. Whether or not some Republicans feel the need to promote that fact, doesn't change that he's actually been crazy for quite some time. Believing that lies to instigate a mob during a political campaign have no consequences is all the evidence needed to prove it too.
Now because he's the first rat to leave a sinking ship he's looking for sympathy, that's crazy too.
Sorry about his personal misfortunes, but the best thing to do is give him no sympathy at all. Sending him to Iraq as a fucking contractor would be the best cure. Then send his crazy ass to Afghanistan after that!
Thanks for your efforts Mr. B.
I love the looks at the Bush inner circle your writing gives.
Love em!
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Dr. Mr. Dowd
You have been a central cog in perhaps the most disgraceful period of American governance ever. By your complicity and eager assistance, you have personally helped to wreak havoc on our nation's civility, to bend our moral compass into grotesque contortions. Young Americans, and untold Iraqis, have died because or your fathomless, absurd behavior. You are nothing more than fickle, nothing less than a blood-stained panderer.
Should your son be wounded or die in Iraq, your actions will have brought him to that end directly. I hope he is not. I hope the rest of the true believers come to their senses, as you say you have, and truly try to make amends. But you and they will have to be in Africa for a very long time to do so.
You are not just part of the problem - you are the problem personified. Your blithe dismissal of the consequences of your actions, to this day, keeps an imcompetent, mean-spirited baboon, and his insane posse, in office.
I hope that beer you had together was really, really good.