I've been watching the rhetoric coming from Matthew Dowd, Bush's former campaign strategist, for a few weeks now and it seems as though he has made some enemies in the White House with his fiery words. In particular, I like that he's taken a stand against his former boss and that he's firmly against the war, which is seeing his son deployed there.

It would seem that Dowd has lost his faith in the Bush presidency after being a lifelong Democratic strategist. Sadly, not only is his faith gone but that of a great many Americans.

So, now that he's turned up his nose at Bush, for whom he switched allegiances, I cannot help but wonder this one question: Is he telling the full truth or just trying to get back at his former boss? Turncoat or truth teller?

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Unfortunately many on the Right will see him as a Carpetbagger since he supported Democrats in the past before turning to Bush because he thought he was a uniter.

To paraphrase Lady Bracknell from The Importance of Being Earnest "To turn once is a tragedy. To turn twice seems like carelessness."

I thought Dowd had turned coats because his son was being sent to Iraq. I guess that'll make almost anybody who's been a Bush zombie or enabler or both for years wake up, at least temporarily.

Nevertheless, what did the White House, in Goebbelsian fashion, do? Dana Perino suggested that Dowd was emotionally unstable! One minute he's their good friend, the next minute, after he starts rebuking their string of failures and corruptions, they label him a fruitcake! Heck of a job, Dowdie!