Viewing the Bush Administration with a mixture of anguish and contempt

Bush strategist looks back in sadness

By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 14, 2007

Matthew Dowd knows sorrow and loss. He has been divorced twice. A daughter died two months after she was born. And then there is the added heartbreak -- a word he uses -- of his split with President Bush. Dowd, 46, is one of the nation's leading political strategists, a onetime Democrat who switched sides to help put Bush in the White House, then win a second term. He spent years shaping and promoting Bush's policies -- policies that Dowd now views with a mixture of anguish and contempt. (read the entire article)

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