A LOYAL BUSHIE REPENTS

Matthew Dowd was a major architect both of George W. Bush's initial appointment as president and of his reelection. Now Dowd says John Kerry was right.

Talk to the hand, Mr. Dowd.

This morning during the Sunday a.m. gasbaggery, El Presidente's (still) loyal lieutenant Dan Bartlett came within a hair's breadth of suggesting that Dowd was in the middle of a mental breakdown. We're not about to go look, but we suspect that particular talking point has blossomed by now into full, malodorant flower all over the right-wing blogs, because, ya know, NO ONE TURNS AGAINST THIS PRESIDENT WHO ISN'T MENTALLY UNSTABLE. Or gay.