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Fmr Bush Chief Strategist Compares Conservatives to the Flinstones, Sarah Palin to the Kardashians
The Blaze ^ | March 17, 2013 | Mytheos Holt

Posted on 03/17/2013 6:35:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Matthew Dowd, former chief strategist for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign, apparently doesn’t have much of a soft spot for CPAC or for Sarah Palin.

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Dowd likened CPAC to no less than two prehistoric children’s cartoons, and not so subtly compared former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Kim Kardashian. National Review captured the one-minute statement from Dowd:

“Matt, you’re just shaking your head. The whole thing, it makes you nervous, what do you say?” ABC host Martha Raddatz asked.

“To me, imagery and who’s there [at CPAC] and what you say is important, and I don’t think divisions are a bad thing,” Dowd said. “I actually think that a conservative message that is built for the 21st century would be a good thing. CPAC to me reminds me of, you know, ‘Land Before Time,’ and it’s like going to a Flintstones episode in my opinion.”

Raddatz asked if Dowd meant CPAC attendees were dinosaurs. Dowd nodded.

“It’s like a bunch of dinosaurs, most of them are like throwbacks in times, it’s like who’s running for Grand Poohbah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes is what it looks like to me,” he said. “When you have Sarah Palin, who it’s an amazing situation to me, between her and the Kardashians....

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TOPICS: Issues; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: bush; cpac; elites; gop; matthewdowd; palin; republicans; sarahpalin
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Meeeeoooowwwww!
1 posted on 03/17/2013 6:35:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sarah is the man. Love her. So happy those snarky establishment are whining.


2 posted on 03/17/2013 6:41:44 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No more Bush’s, no more McCain’s.

Go away. Be gone. Your day in the sun is over.


3 posted on 03/17/2013 6:42:25 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (Forget Mexico. Put the border fence around California.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mathew Dowd should be ashamed of himself, for comparing Sarah Palin with a piece of slime like Kardashian.

He is no Gentleman, and he marks himself as an idiot.


4 posted on 03/17/2013 6:42:53 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Who cares what Maureen Dowd’s little sister thinks?


5 posted on 03/17/2013 6:43:40 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
feh...

6 posted on 03/17/2013 6:43:45 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All I know is that Bush I gave us Clinton and Bush II gave us something much worse.


7 posted on 03/17/2013 6:44:08 PM PDT by 353FMG ( I refuse to specify whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Awwwww - The establishment, political class republicans don’t like the unsavory grass-roots conservatives. Cry me a river.

The GOPe should run McCain/Boehner in 2016 and see how well *that* ticket does.

Or Romney/Boehner 2016 - they are both still young enough. That ticket would show this clown who the dinosaurs are...


8 posted on 03/17/2013 6:46:06 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I am SO GLAD that I am vindicated. There was a time on here that if you said ANYTHING bad about G W Bush...you would get flamed. You couldn't point out his RINO policies...or that he picked the wrong fight in the war on Terror (Iran instead of Iraq)....

So either most of the Bush-Bots had fled FR...or people have come to their senses. Either way...I'm glad the truth is out there.

9 posted on 03/17/2013 6:47:48 PM PDT by NELSON111
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

FOAD


10 posted on 03/17/2013 6:49:03 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: 353FMG

It would seem that the sole purpose of the GOP is to ensure that any office currently held by them is filled with a democrat as soon as possible.

And they are right on course except for two of them.


11 posted on 03/17/2013 6:51:56 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Triple

They’re trying to foist Scott Romney on us for Carl Levin’s seat here in Michigan.


12 posted on 03/17/2013 6:52:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Venturer

I’d venture to guess he has some sort of terminal prostate problem ~ leaves him frustrated.


13 posted on 03/17/2013 6:53:23 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: libbylu

These RINOs have declared WAR on the conservatives— It is CLEAR now. We have McAmnesty and Limpy Gramnesty wrongfully ridiculing our wonderful Senator Paul who had the GUTS to stand for the constitution. And fat faced Karl Rove and now this —”nobody ever heard of you” criticizes conservatives! These are the same people that said “there are WMD in Iraq” which was a massive intentional lie and cost 150,000 Iraqis lives and 4700 American men. 38000 American wounded and 1.7 trillion dollars for WHAT? Nothing— The Iraq “government is nothing!! The oil we NEEDED is now sold the China!! Sunnis still blow up the Shiites every day!!. Get a grip. Are we this stupid as to not run these People out of OUR party?


14 posted on 03/17/2013 6:55:08 PM PDT by willardwx
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Notice a theme, its BUSH ass kissers doing the trash talking..its these Clowns that gave us Obama and they have the nerve to trash US


15 posted on 03/17/2013 7:05:16 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: willardwx

We let the Rinos get away with murder (of the US constitution with the Patriot Act and the US economic system via corporate and bankster bailouts, expanding medicare spending, reforming NOTHING) when Bush was president.

So they are full of their nasty selves. They will take the ride down on their sinking ship while thumbing their snotty noses at the country.

I guess they showed us Americans how it’s done! Oh, my.


16 posted on 03/17/2013 7:05:52 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is he the manager of the George P. Bush for Land Commissioner campaign? Apparently, no on has yet announced he will oppose the new generational Bush, not even a Democrat.


17 posted on 03/17/2013 7:07:05 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: hadaclueonce; libbylu; 2ndDivisionVet
Right on, The Old Guard Republican's time is over!

Now if them and their shrill cheerleaders get out of the way we could hold back this leftist tide!


18 posted on 03/17/2013 7:09:46 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: SaraJohnson
We let the Rinos get away with murder (of the US constitution with the Patriot Act and the US economic system via corporate and bankster bailouts, expanding medicare spending, reforming NOTHING) when Bush was president.

As part of the Rand Paul filibuster, Ted Cruz gave a great speech about standing up for what's right even if it means opposing your own party. He fought Bush in court over Bush trying to force Texas to defer to international pressure.
19 posted on 03/17/2013 7:12:11 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sorta makes you wonder whose side they are REALLY on, doesn't it?


20 posted on 03/17/2013 7:24:47 PM PDT by Slyfox (The Key to Marxism is Medicine ~ Vladimir Lenin)
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