Bush Insider Says Kerry "Was Right"

George Bush once said that he would not withdrawal from Iraq even if "if Laura And Barney Are The Only Ones Supporting Me."

According to the New York Times, Bush is getting closer to that stand as Matthew Dowd, one of Bush's insiders has decided that "Kerry Was Right." However, if the right wing had their way its doubtful anyone would know.

The Times reported that Dowd wrote, but never submitting an op-ed article titled “Kerry Was Right,” arguing that Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat and 2004 presidential candidate, was correct in calling last year for a withdrawal from Iraq.

Dowd, a former member of Mr. Bush’s political brain trust from Texas worked to get Bush to the Oval Office and keeping him there. In 2004, he was appointed the president’s chief campaign strategist.

The Times pointed out that "in television interviews in 2004, Mr. Dowd said that Mr. Kerry’s campaign was proposing 'a weak defense,” and that the voters “trust this president more than they trust Senator Kerry on Iraq. But he was starting to have his own doubts by then, he said."

Great, another insider who knew in 2004 that Bush was wrong and shouldn't be elected, yet kept quiet. It's not surprising that Dowd has soured on Bush. He just joins a number of other former administration officials who, after working for Bush, have soured on him.

The interesting thing will be to see if the right ring press will cover this story. Fox News web site is avoiding the subject, other than carrying a reference that Chris Wallace had brought up Dowd's comments, without mentioning the words "Kerry was Right" during Fox News Sunday.

Senators, I'd like to ask you both about those comments from Matthew Dowd, the first member of the president's inner circle to break with him publicly. He says that Mr. Bush has failed to reach across the partisan divide and is ignoring the will of the American people when it comes to Iraq.

Nothing about Kerry being right though, not that is a surprise. It's doubtful anyone else on the right will carry it either. Apparently conservatives believe if they ignore the truth, it's not the truth.

Anyway its not like the media would cover a Democratic insider, say like Dick Morris, bashing his former boss. Nope, that would NEVER happen.