I think the Denver DNC in '08 was pretty soon after Matthew Dowd had his
new career mapped out conversion into a person who maybe didn't love the guy he got re-elected amidst all of those purple band-aids in 2004 as much as he claimed when he spent all of that money to convince us we should love him. Way too many people around me were very very impressed indeed that in the waning days of the Bush administration, with the writing on the wall already about Miserable Failure's legacy, that the heroic Mr. Dowd would
time his public conversion for maximum media attention have this sudden crisis of conscience.
Savvy about some things, but like so many of our elite scribes, a really
silly person. It's all about tone, people. Iraqis? bygones.