Matt Dowd gets a smack down he deserves in a response to his post on HuffPo

[ProSense]

When Matt thinks no one remembers:

Matthew Dowd| BIO

War in Iraq: Wisdom of Crowds

Posted September 9, 2007 | 07:16 PM (EST)

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I hope this analysis helps bolster the leaders who are ready to stand up for the troops and for the vast majority of Americans in this country. Not only is truth on those leaders' side, but politics is as well. It is my opinion that the best leaders are those who trust the will of the public, even if that means changing direction or admitting a mistake. This is true leadership and the kind of leadership our nation has always desired.

This comment reminds him about his role:

Matt,

It would be nice if you had apologized to the American public as well - after all you did contribute to the prolonging of this "mistake" as "Chief Strategist for President Bush in the 2004 campaign." In simpler terms, President Kerry would have ended this war by now!

Also, I wish people spoke truth to power when they were in a position to make a difference. At this point in time, unfortunately - you are too little, too late! Nonetheless, your mea culpa might enable you to sleep better at night.

Log in | posted 08:17 pm on 09/09/2007

[gaiilonfong]

1. Matty boy should expose Miss Piggy Rover

THEN,....maybe.....I will cut him a break

[ProSense]

2. Matt can start by convincing his GOP buddies

Yet the "debate" taking place in the Beltway regarding Iraq could not be any further removed from the views most Americans hold, and the war-continuing actions of our political class over the next several weeks will be -- yet again -- in complete defiance of the pervasive belief in this country that it is long past time to end the war. Just as they do with regard to the realities in Iraq, our political class just pretends that these facts about American public opinion are not true. As but one particularly egregious (though representative) example, this is what Fred Thompson advisor Mary Matalin said last week on the Meet the Press:

MS. MATALIN: Yes, because what we're seeing for the first time last week, is a majority of people now support and believe that the war can be won.

Matalin's claim that a majority "believe that the war can be won" is extremely dubious (the Post-ABC Poll found the opposite: that a plurality believes the U.S. will lose the war; only a minority (39%) believes we will win). But Matalin's claim that "a majority of people now support" the war is just an outright lie.

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[Captain Hilts]

3. Did he ask Petraeus to write that pro-war Op-Ed in the NYT right before the 2004 election? nt