Matthews used to work for Tip O'Neil. I'm sure that helped mold him into the GOOD Little Liberal he is today too.
Prayers for Teri and her DEAR and Courageous Family. I like what you said STARWISE, Fight, Terri, fight on!
Until tomorrow......
You are exactly right.
You can see the tug of war going on in Matthews head sometimes, by his expressions, language, etc., and the political almost always wins out.
Only a few times will he soften that hard political edge he has. His partisanship will pop right back up, though. Always.
Matthews is trapped. He knows better than his rants and Bush hatred at times, but the man thinks of himself as a partisan Democrat to the core, and would not know what to do if he let the moral and spiritual and personal overrule his politics.
Yet he feels those influences still and has to crush them inside himself, I think.