"Kerry Was Right"

You know things aren't going well for the Bush Administration when a former top advisor to the President drafts an op-ed entitled "Kerry Was Right."

Matthew Dowd (no relation to Maureen) painted Kerry as a flip-flopper in 2004. Now he sides with the former Democratic nominee in calling for a withdrawal from Iraq. "If the American public says they're done with something, our leaders have to understand what they want," Dowd told the New York Times in an interview published on Sunday. "They're saying, 'Get out of Iraq.'" He calls his former boss "secluded and bubbled in."

Dowd may be late to the party, as some have commented, but his entrance is a stirring one nonetheless. He's not the first Bush insider to speak out against the policies and tactics of this Administration. Think of John Dilulio and David Kuo and Lawrence Wilkerson and Flynt Leverett.

Yet Dowd's the most high-profile ally-turned-critic yet. And it's fair to say he won't be the last.

Comments (23)

1. Right about the kids that end up "stcuk in Irack"?

   Posted by Happy at 04/02/2007 @ 11:04am

2. In all due fairness, Bush was right when he said "the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully".

   Posted by Balrog at 04/02/2007 @ 11:07am

3. Happy-If you listen to what Kerry said you'll notice that he first made a couple of references to bush and then said "stuck in Iraq".You folks on the right can be a tad slow.

   Posted by i'm nobody at 04/02/2007 @ 11:08am

4. He hasn't been right about much else, but he pretty much nailed that one...

   Posted by Balrog at 04/02/2007 @ 11:08am

5. He hasn't been right about much else, but he pretty much nailed that one...

   The above in refence to Bush and the whole humans and fish thing...

   Posted by Balrog at 04/02/2007 @ 11:11am

6. Yet another rat deserting the ship. It will be fun to watch the Captain and First Mate go down, though. Skipper/Cheney and Gilligan/Bush will be lucky if they find a desert isle to spend the rest of their miserable existence on.

   Posted by bjkron at 04/02/2007 @ 11:33am

7. "secluded and bubbled in."

   Does this mean we can officially call him "Bubble-boy" now?

   Posted by leftofcenter at 04/02/2007 @ 11:43am

8. Gitmo would be the second best place for Skipper/Cheney and his little buddy, Gilligan/Bush to spend the rest of their miserable lives.

   Posted by Harold F at 04/02/2007 @ 11:46am

9. You can tell that most war supporters are males by the way they claim that living under sharia law in Iraq constitutes freedom and Democracy.

   Posted by i'm nobody at 04/02/2007 @ 11:46am

10. Posted by I'M NOBODY 04/02/2007 @ 11:46am

    Living under rule of law...must be that progress McCain keeps yapping about.

    Posted by leftofcenter at 04/02/2007 @ 11:54am

11. Leftofcenter-I wonder if McCain will move his family to Iraq to prove how safe it is.

    Posted by i'm nobody at 04/02/2007 @ 11:56am

12. Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful war

    That started off in Florida, by a vote of five to four

    The Mate was a mighty drinkin' man, but the Skipper, he was sure

    "We'll send our troops to free Iraq, in a three hour tour"

    "A three hour tour"

    The insurgents started playing rough, in the face of "Bring it on"

    If not for the treason of the media, we would by now have won

    We would by now have won

    The war is now a disaster, but many have gotten rich

    Like Gilligan

    The Skipper, too

    The Millionaires (of course), and oil men

    KBR

    The lobbyists and Blackwater

    Are ready now for Iran!

    Posted by bjkron at 04/02/2007 @ 12:03pm

13. Hey,

    Who's moving to Baghdad with me. I mean, I thought Bogotá was safe, but it pales in comparison to Baghdad. Where's LL, RIO, PONTI, CPT and the other coalition of clowns who will actually claim this is as good, if not better than, living in Geneva, Switzerland?

    America, this kind of bullshit makes the world laugh at your idiocy, don't you realize that?

    http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/01/mccain-iraq-stroll/

    Posted by chimichenga at 04/02/2007 @ 12:07pm

14. At least we know that Bush still has the greatest Vice President of all time. . . Dick Cheney! Right, LvLiberty?

    It was dear ole' LvLiberty who said Cheney was the greatest because he lives to make lefties mad.

    So much for national security. So much for the environment. So much for education. So much for a plan for reconstructing Iraq. So much for Global Warming. So much for civil liberties. . . bring on the spying and the torture. So much for energy independence. . . As long as those lefties are mad, all is well!

    Posted by hhemwm at 04/02/2007 @ 12:18pm

15. I cant promise anything, but Dowd will probably get into Heaven - certainly if he keeps it up. Republican Christians like to console themselves that God doesnt care about what they denigrate as "works". Oh no, if you try to help destroy and take over the world and drag America into Hell based on lies, then you have to repent, you have to do something good to make up for it, and you have to do it before you die or else God WILL burn you alive forever.

    Posted by conshame at 04/02/2007 @ 12:24pm

16. and you have to do it before you die or else God WILL burn you alive forever.

    Posted by CONSHAME 04/02/2007 @ 12:24pm

    Getting a wee bit hyperbolic, huh, CS?

    Posted by Mask at 04/02/2007 @ 12:31pm

17. America, this kind of bullshit makes the world laugh at your idiocy, don't you realize that?

    Those of us that are intellectually honest realize it.

    Posted by Balrog at 04/02/2007 @ 12:35pm

18. Mask, we are talking about Republicans, you know that.

    Posted by conshame at 04/02/2007 @ 12:36pm

19. Posted by BALROG 04/02/2007 @ 12:35pm | ignore this person

    It's just a shame the people who bolster McCain and the other Tory bullshit seem to have an endless mob of morons swallowing everything they ladle out, no matter how ridiculous or out-of-touch it is with common sense. Can you imagine what Hitler could have achieved with such masses?

    Posted by chimichenga at 04/02/2007 @ 12:45pm

20. Mask, we are talking about Republicans, you know that.

    Posted by CONSHAME 04/02/2007 @ 12:36pm

    So? You think God BURNS you alive forever...or just be over-the-top for effect?

    Posted by Mask at 04/02/2007 @ 12:50pm

21. no matter how ridiculous or out-of-touch it is with common sense.

    And there's the crux of the matter - there are many people who lack common sense.

    Posted by Balrog at 04/02/2007 @ 1:01pm

22. "And there's the crux of the matter - there are many people who lack common sense.

    Posted by BALROG 04/02/2007 @ 1:01pm | ignore this person

    And they all end up in government and others lacking common sense vote them in...on both sides.

    Posted by john maasch at 04/02/2007 @ 1:05pm

23. BJK

    LOL...good stuff

    Posted by leftofcenter at 04/02/2007 @ 2:03pm