Novak Floats New Dowd Smear: Bush’s Former Chief Campaign Strategist Is Just A Partisan Democrat
Novak Floats New Dowd Smear: Bush’s Former Chief Campaign Strategist Is Just A Partisan Democrat
When former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd first publicly criticized President Bush, conservatives questioned whether “emotions” over his son’s deployment to Iraq were having an “impact” on his judgement. This talking point, which was repeated by President Bush during his press conference yesterday, has been sharply criticized as “insulting to the hundreds of thousands of Americans whose sons, daughters, sisters, brothers and spouses have served or will serve in Iraq.”
So conservative pundit Robert Novak has stepped in to offer a new strategy for smearing Dowd.
In his political report today, Novak tests the waters for a new attack on Dowd’s credibility, claiming that he is acting with partisan motivations:
Dowd views Bush as trapped within a bubble formed by his closest advisors, and blind to the public’s demand for withdrawal from Iraq. Some Republicans, however, question this sudden reversal, particularly since Dowd is a former Democrat and he expressed interest in working for Sen. Barack Obama’s (D.-Ill.) presidential campaign.
So desperate to undermine Dowd’s criticism of Bush’s Iraq strategy, the right wing is incredulously claiming that the man who dedicated six years of his life to getting President Bush “to the Oval Office and keeping him there” is really just a partisan Democrat.
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Nothing they won’t do or say – and couple this with the recess appointment – what’s next – martial law ?
April 4th, 2007 at 5:42 pmTruly, in Jon Stewarts words, “a douchebag of liberty.”
April 4th, 2007 at 5:42 pmSince when would Barack Obama be against a partisan Democrat working on his campaign?
April 4th, 2007 at 5:42 pmTruly, in the words of Jon Stewart, “a douchebag of liberty.”
April 4th, 2007 at 5:44 pmIt is amazing how many partisan Democrats have infiltrated the Bush administration. Richard Clark, Paul O’Neill, Matt Dowd. And they were so convincing as Republicans.
I wonder if this version will work. Those smears didn’t stick with Clarke and O’Neill and now they are trying it again.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:44 pmAre Dowd’s credentials on military strategy as impeccable as Algore’s on the environment?
April 4th, 2007 at 5:45 pmWhat’s a Democart?
April 4th, 2007 at 5:45 pmFriendly reminder: Trolls favorite food – exasperated thougthful and nuanced liberals. Don’t….respond. Best strategy I can think of. :)
April 4th, 2007 at 5:45 pmI said it before this party (the repuke’s) canibalizes individuals of the same species.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:49 pmNow that’s a picture of someone who tears the heads off of small animals.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:50 pm#3…please try to stay on topic. The topic is Novak’s smear of Dowd. Sheesh.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:50 pmOf course he’s a partisan Democrat. Our plan all along has been to get Bush elected in order to make Republicans look really really stupid.
Bwahaha ha ha ha!
Okay, that’s not as funny as it would be if 3,200 American soldiers and countless Iraqis were still alive. Sorry.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:50 pmhttp://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/H/e/novak_douchebag_of_liberty.jpg
April 4th, 2007 at 5:51 pmDidn’t Novak’s last column say Bush is the most isolated President ever? Does that make Novak a partisan Democrat (not that we would want him)?
April 4th, 2007 at 5:51 pmNovak is a “floater”…
April 4th, 2007 at 5:53 pmRemember that Novak has to work extra hard to get back into the good graces of the WH. His name is tied with the Libby mess and Cheney needs proof of his faith. He’s not going to get there on his looks alone.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:54 pmAren’t they all partisan Democrats at this point? The Republican Party is mid-implosion and I presume they will jump ship – and soon. Certainly a modicum of “sanity” hits one otherwise demented by schizophrenic talking points when his own flesh & blood will face the reality of a war based on pure lies. I’d say Dowd’s son being deployed was his “dark night of the soul” and his transformed self emerged – one with a human conscience AND a soul. Dowd finally “saw the light” as the Reichwing Christofascists like to say. Well, time to apply it accurately to Dowd.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:55 pmvacuous venue seems to have exchanged some myopic mental material with the jake-ster…………
April 4th, 2007 at 5:57 pm#12 When Kerry lost the election, I was consoled with the fact that now Bush would have to reap what he had sown. The tragic war in Iraq is now 100% owned by George Bush. He got everything he wanted, and he made a total disaster of it. If he and his party go down in flames now….so be it.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:58 pm#6…Are Patrick’s credentials for posting on blogs as impeccable as any other republican partisan hack’s?
April 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pmLucky for him he doesn’t have to travel very far on his looks…
April 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pm“Democrat” is the new gay! We demand more forceful outings!!
April 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pmIf I were Robert Novak I believe that I’d be keeping a very low profile at this point. For some reason, he managed to slip by the skin of his teeth in the Plame affair although we know how vapid this guy is and how his big mouth makes him just another repugnantly idiotic and irrelevant Rethuglican. I’m surprised that, following his tango with disease, he would take the chance of corrupting himself any more from the inside out. Novak reminds me of an insidious carcinoma deeply ensconced within who pops up on the radar periodically only to help us realize that his cancer has metastasized making his body habitus one totally necrotic, rotting piece of human flesh. That is, assuming Robert Novak is actually “human” at all.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:00 pm.
Robert Novak?
Who’s he?
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April 4th, 2007 at 6:03 pmAhem……….. TP? Democart?
#7…. a Democart is what John McCains tour bus will be called on the day after the Repuglican primary…………
April 4th, 2007 at 6:06 pmRaven, you are cracking me up!
April 4th, 2007 at 6:08 pmThe only way this makes sense is if Dowd knew that putting Bush into the Oval Office would effectively keep the Republicans out for several terms, which is pretty much the case considering Bush’s pitiful performance.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:09 pmThe headline should read: “Novak Floats a New Turd.”
April 4th, 2007 at 6:11 pmI see Novak is trying to keep his flip-flop sales up by creating controversy.
YAWN. SO OLD. SO LAME. SO BORING. SO DEEP THROAT.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:15 pmNovacula finds a new blood donor!
April 4th, 2007 at 6:17 pmThey don’t call him The Douchbag of Liberty for nothing.
-GSD
April 4th, 2007 at 6:18 pmYou can’t really expect Novak and his ilk to write columns about how Bush Liberated the Middle East, Shrunk the government, Balanced the Budget, and lead the free world.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:24 pmWhy is Novak not in prison for maliciously outing a CIA agent? How can any respectable media outlet continue to support this traitor?
April 4th, 2007 at 6:29 pmAt least Dowd is willing to speak out against Bush directly. The reaction from conservatives over his statement just proves that the Iraq war isn’t trying to accomplish what it set out to do: eliminate terrorism. According to the Borgen Project, $340 billion has already been spent on the war. I think there are better ways to spend that money–say by eliminating global poverty or proving education to children–to actually get to the roots of terror and spend the federal budget wisely.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:30 pmSo desperate to undermine Dowd’s criticism of Bush’s Iraq strategy, the right wing is incredulously claiming that the man… is really just a partisan Democrat.
and that only makes sense because a good many democrats, maybe most?, have no good will towards this man’s dealings of the past 6 years…
April 4th, 2007 at 6:33 pmsome think he should be welcomed “back into the fold”, the others say to shun the traitor to the constitution and the country…
i can identify with both stances…
however, i don’t trust him at all… ever… never again…
any of ‘em…
Bush himself gets the award for most cynical and shameless person, more so than Novak. He suggested that Dowd was “emotional” because he had a son who’s going to Iraq. Imagine what that’s like, for a guy who would never raise a limb of his own to take part in his neocon quagmire, to brazenly attach someone as a father. If that’s not partisan, I don’t know what is. Definitely criticizing a president’s policies is not a “partisan” thing to do.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:34 pmthis creep has been irrelevent for years
April 4th, 2007 at 6:35 pmSen. Richard Lugar, Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pointedly told reporters that Bush needs to “have much more of a cadre of people in both houses, from both parties” visiting the White House “very frequently.” Lugar cited Bill Clinton as the model.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:37 pm340 Billion , that’s 1000 dollars for every man, woman and child in the country !!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 6:38 pm$340 billion could have purchased a lot of homeland security if the money were in the hands of adults.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:48 pmBut that’s just life in the bubble. That’s just what happens when you’re the President. And I knew that going in, so I’m not griping about it. -GWB
Heh,
April 4th, 2007 at 6:49 pmNovak has what my husband calls a “sh!t-smelling-face” (it probably sounds better en Espanol). Why should anyone believe anything this professional liar says?
April 4th, 2007 at 6:50 pmHey, SkdeA, Wayne told me that you left a nice message on his blog. He’ll get back to posting on it eventually, hopefully within a month or so.
April 4th, 2007 at 6:53 pmSKdeA,
I think the translation to English would be something along the lines of “a sh!t eating grin”. It is unfourtunate, that such phrases tend not to translate well from one language to another.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:00 pmHe does look like a bulldog sniffing another dog’s butt!
April 4th, 2007 at 7:02 pmNovak is a douchenozzle.
Why hasn’t he been tried for reason yet?
April 4th, 2007 at 7:16 pmerrr, treason, not reason… doh!
April 4th, 2007 at 7:18 pmWhy is Novakula not in prison…?
April 4th, 2007 at 7:21 pmHe could well be tried for reason, there seems to be some doubt!
April 4th, 2007 at 7:32 pm“Some Republicans question” = “Some people say” = “in my opinion”
April 4th, 2007 at 7:35 pmAll throughout the 2004 election, CNN allowed this traitorous liar to sit in front of cameras and say the Swiftboat liars were honorable men. All along, CNN knew that Novak’s son was working for the Swiftboat liars. Novak is not only a traitor to his nation, but he’s a disgrace to journalism as well. He’s an operative and he always has been an operative.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:37 pmI don’t think they should impugn the motives of this guy…much like we shouldn’t have impugn Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman…
…Sometimes a big inclusive tent has many different viewpoints, and a person shouldn’t be kicked out because of what they think about a part-issue.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:44 pmHey Novak, good way to blame it on the black man. Have you talked to Gingrich so you could find a brown man to blame it on next.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:45 pmNovak: America’s greatest living traitor.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:49 pmThe Right: Bat . . . Shit . . . Crazy.
April 4th, 2007 at 8:07 pmNot responding is the best strategy, it’s also the most difficult. You get back what you put in to it.
April 4th, 2007 at 8:24 pmSomeone said earlier governments are more concerned with short term appearances that long term solutions. Yes the real long term solution to terror would be to eliminate the roots, the causes. Growing up in a wartorn nation, with perpetual PTSD, and constantly worried about the most basic of needs is the root of terrorism. Its not the religion.
April 4th, 2007 at 8:27 pmDARVO
Deflect – Dowd is just too emotional.
Attack, reversing victim and offender: Dowd is a long-time partisan Democrat and Bush is the victim of partisan politcs.
April 4th, 2007 at 8:42 pmCaption Contest:
I have to hold my head like this so I don’t choke on my wattle.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:21 pmNothing is beneath these guys…why the hell is Novak not behind bars yet?
April 4th, 2007 at 9:56 pmSince when would Barack Obama be against a partisan Democrat working on his campaign?
Comment by vermin venus —
This president and vice-president have a unique talent for turning Repub-leaning people into partisan Democrats, don’t they?
April 4th, 2007 at 9:59 pmI noticed that Novak wouldn’t take responsibility for his own opinion, merely stating that “Some Republicans” say… just like the Katie Couric interview with John Edwards and his wife, stating that “Some people say…”
April 4th, 2007 at 9:59 pmSomeone should do Novak a big favor and let him know he’s been dead for at least 5 or 6 years now. He certainly looks it.
April 4th, 2007 at 10:16 pmNovak? IS THAT OLD REPROBATE STILL AROUND? I THOUGHT HE WAS KILLED, WELL, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN!!!!! SWIFT-BOAT-SHIT-SMEAR TACTICS, GIVE IT A REST, Rove, CHIMPya, Bushland Uber Allies, IT DOESN’T WORK ANY MORE, YOU ARE EMPTY FOOLS, ROARING YOUR MEANINGLESS WORDS ON THE STAGE OF LIFE, TELLING YOUR TALE OF USELESS STRIFE, YOU FECKLESS FOOLS, FULL OF SOUND AND FURY, SIGNIFYING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, ZILCH, NA-NA, BIG FAT ZERO!!!! Dowd HAS COME TO HIS SENSES AND ABANDONED YA, CHIMPya, YOU PITIFUL EMPTY HALF-A-MAN, QUEER, PUNY, SCRAGGLY, NO-ACCOUNT BASTARD!!!!! WHY DON’T YOU SAVE THE TAXPAYERS AND UPCOMING CRIMINAL COURTS SOME MONEY AND OFF YOURSELF LIKE HITLER DID, YOU FILTHY NAZI-FASCIST SCUM, BUT YOU PROBABLY DON’T HAVE THE NERVE, THE GUTS, THE INTESTINAL FORTITUDE TO DO THAT, RIGHT?????
April 4th, 2007 at 10:36 pmTHE TEXAS TWO-STEP! Matt Dowd fled a sinking ship, much like his partner before him
This is an interesting bit of background on Mr. Dowd and a partner during their time in TX.
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh040407.shtml
A McCann section starts off the page and that is interesting reading as well.
April 4th, 2007 at 11:38 pmOh, I get it. Dowd was under cover for the 6 years he worked to advance the Republic & Bush’s agenda all so he could, at this point in time, get some conscience and see the light. He was doing that for 6 years just so he could go work for Obama.
Knovak is an idiot and I can’t understand why anyone listens to anything he has to say. The man is a traitor. He outed not only an under cover CIA agent but also her cover company Brewster Jennings. That may have ended up in the deaths of American CIA agents whose cover was blown along with Valerie Plame.
April 4th, 2007 at 11:47 pm#52 Yes, hello Zell and Holy Joe truly represent Democrats. Right.
April 4th, 2007 at 11:56 pmWe should hope that Dowd’s wife is not a covert CIA agent.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:39 amHe was once a Democrat who was attracted to Karl Rove. Pass the barf bag! No thank you! Do not let this man near a single Democratic candidate.
Well, Karl is obviously a very, very, very bright strategist, has been a bright Republican strategist for 30 years. I knew Karl. Karl and I used to co-teach some classes together when I was a Democrat. We’d sort of do a Democratic/Republican thing. He and I got to know each other fairly well in that time, and he was a big reason why, besides my fondness for the governor, that I went over and became a Republican, basically a Bush Republican, in that time.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/interviews/dowd.html
April 5th, 2007 at 12:44 am#69 That turns my stomach.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:48 amBeing a Republican Cultist means always having a handful of poo at the ready.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:39 amOr as in Bob’s case a mouthful.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:40 amThis explains why they always talk about the “librul media”
April 5th, 2007 at 10:15 amHe’s against the war — he can’t be Republican.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:16 pmCaption Contest:
“Mr. Bush, I have to hold this in my mouth for how long?”
April 5th, 2007 at 8:08 pm