For decades, and especially recently, Texas Democrats have sought to win statewide elections, but they continue picking the wrong people. Beto O’Rourke and Wendy Davis immediately come to mind, and now it’s Matthew Dowd’s turn as he launches a bid for Texas lieutenant governor.
The 60-year-old’s last gig was as an ABC political analyst, and though he served as the chief strategist for George W. Bush’s successful 2004 reelection campaign, he moved left shortly after and hard left about six years ago.
Dowd reacted to the arrival of Donald Trump on the scene not by condemning him, but, like Jen Rubin, by changing his political views on everything. Earlier this year, for example, he claimed the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was worse than the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
He’ll run as a proud Democrat and challenge outspoken Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who Dowd accused of waging a “culture war” in pushing for Texas’ abortion laws.
“The GOP politicians have failed us, especially the cruel and craven lieutenant governor,” Dowd said in a video announcing his candidacy. “Dan Patrick has been lying and deceiving, fracturing the bonds we share and endangering all our lives. He does not believe in the common good. He seeks only to represent himself and the 5 percent of the state that goes along with all of this.”
In the video, Dowd claims the Texas GOP has mishandled every issue, including COVID-19, gun laws, abortion, the electric grid situation last winter, and more.
He will face Mike Collier in the party’s primary. Collier ran an unsuccessful campaign against Patrick in 2018.
Despite media obfuscation, Dowd is a committed liberal. He worked for only Democrats in the 1980s and 1990s, including Gov. Ann Richards. Her daughter, the former long-time president of Planed Parenthood, immediately lauded his candidacy. read more
We’ll see if we’ve lost Texas.
It has been my understanding that “Bush Republicans” have been Democrats for the last 45 years. Dowd “switched” to be with the most liberal president in American history “dubya”( for those <60 that is what the Marxist went by 30 years ago.). He seems to have developed a conscience and again admits who/what he has been forever; a "Bush Republican".
All the political carpet baggers say the same thing.
The ( D or R ) party has left me.
Screenshots are forever buster.
Typical Bush complacency. He didn’t properly vett this libtard before hiring him for the Bush Aught Four campaign.
This same complacency directly led to allowing the Filthy Mohammedan 9/11 atrocities to happen.
*Norm Mineta was Clinton’s Secretary of Transportation
*Norm Mineta despised “profiling” and didn’t allow airport security to screen passengers for it.
*Israeli El Al Airlines profiles heavily and it is 💯 pc effective.
*Bush stupidly wanted to be bipartisan and so he kept on the reverse-racist Norm Mineta AND allowed Norm Mineta to continue his idiotic feel-good ban on profiling
*The morning of 9/11/2001 – a date which will live in perfidy – several airport screeners had their Spidey Senses Tingling as the Filthy Mohammedans checked in for their ✈️ flights.
*But Leftist Norm Mineta’s INSANE rules forbid them from acting on it.
*The blood of 3,000 Americans is on the hands of Leftist Norm Mineta and RINO George Bush
No true Texas will ever vote for this ass clown.
Just how does one strategize for a blooming idiot?