Posted on 10/22/2017 12:09:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
ABCs make-believe Republican, Matthew Dowd was on a tear Sunday morning during his appearance on This Week’s “Powerhouse Roundtable.” While there, he continued his exhausted criticism of President Trump but he set his eyes on a new target: White House Chief of Staff General John Kelly. And according to Dowd, Kelly’s defense of President Trump’s call to a gold star widow meant people should start to question his intelligence.
Before handing the floor to Dowd, fill-in Moderator Martha Raddatz noted that her guest found parts of Kelly’s comments “especially troubling.” He did mention that he was moved by Kelly’s touching briefing on the process involved in bringing a fallen soldier home and notifying their loved ones.
But for Dowd, the problem was Kelly’s slamming of Democratic Congresswoman Frederica Wilson and how it related to Trump. “The problem that I have is, you ask the question, does he know who he works for,” he asked before he rambled:
He talks about the sacredness of gold star families and that we lost that when he works for a guy who attacked gold star families and attacked John McCain as a prisoner. He talks about the sacredness of women and he has somebody that said certain things on tape that are at best predatory, at best predatory and has been accused by 12 or 14 different women of behavior. We says we lost the sacredness of religion and he works for someone who wanted to ban Muslims. And if he read the Sermon on the Mount he would probably think it was Marsan. The President did.
Dowd Questions Kelly’s Intelligence, Claims Lincoln’s GOP Is Gone
Dowd’s original question could have been dismissed as just a rhetorical one, but his follow-up proved his seriousness in questioning Kelly’s mind. “And so, I think, part of what John Kelly did was, it was touching. But also it left wide open the question of, does he really know the guy that he works for?”
Dowd, of all people, shouldn’t be questioning someone’s intelligence. Back in August, he compared Trump to North Korea’s murderous dictator, Kim Jong-un. And in May, he claimed ISIS’s genocide against Christians wasn’t that big of a deal and pushed for a socialist health care system in the U.S.
But Dowd wasn’t done with his ridiculous hyperbolic claims. A few minutes later, he angrily argued that real Republicans like him needed to realize that the GOP was taken over by racists. “I think that what has to be recognized by Republicans and many conservatives who have resisted Donald Trump is that the Republican Party as they know it is gone,” he exclaimed. “This is a party that would never nominate Lincoln again, would never nominate Teddy Roosevelt.”
“Certainly wouldn't nominate Ronald Reagan in this. And that party is gone. They might as well get H.G. Wells on the line, get back in a time machine, and find the party they think still exists. It’s gone,” he added to the giggles of liberal mouthpiece Cokie Roberts.
Dowd’s smears of Kelly, a gold star father, just further debased America’s political discourse.
Transcript below:
ABC
This Week
October 22, 2017
9:38:47 AM Eastern
MARTHA RADDATZ: I want to go back to John Kelly again. It was a big week and I do think the debate would have ended there after his emotional briefing on that. But there were aspects to his remarks that you, Matt Dowd, found especially troubling.
MATTHEW DOWD: Well, I thought the initial part of his conversation obviously on how a soldier comes home after they're killed and what happens in that process was very emotional and very touching. The problem that I have is, you ask the question, does he know who he works for?
He talks about the sacredness of gold star families and that we lost that when he works for a guy who attacked gold star families and attacked John McCain as a prisoner. He talks about the sacredness of women and he has somebody that said certain things on tape that are at best predatory, at best predatory and has been accused by 12 or 14 different women of behavior. We says we lost the sacredness of religion and he works for someone who wanted to ban Muslims. And if he read the Sermon on the Mount he would probably think it was Marsan. The President did.
And so, I think, part of what John Kelly did was, it was touching. But also it left wide open the question of, does he really know the guy that he works for?
(…)
9:43:09 AM Eastern
RADDATZ: Matt, I want to talk about those comments by the former presidents. How significant is that?
DOWD: Huge. I mean, I think that this is just another added effect. George W. Bush is somebody who basically disappeared for eight years during Barack Obama's term. He went back to Texas. Went about his business. Never said a word. Those words he said would never have been said if not for Donald Trump.
COKIE ROBERTS: Right.
DOWD: And what’s been happening in the campaign and Steve Bannon. I think that what has to be recognized by Republicans and many conservatives who have resisted Donald Trump is that the Republican Party as they know it is gone. This is a party that would never nominate Lincoln again, would never nominate Teddy Roosevelt.
ROBERTS: Reagan!
DOWD: Certainly wouldn't nominate Ronald Reagan in this. And that party is gone. They might as well get H.G. Wells on the line, get back in a time machine, and find the party they think still exists. It’s gone.
(…)
But Douglas’ Democrat party is pretty much unchanged.
“Considering Lincoln was a Psychopath that allowed 600,000 young men to die...”
740,000, not counting civilians in the South.
Very well said.
Don’t forget driving a stake through the heart of federalism.
BTTT
Ironically same number of letters
1. Since when did the dems or MSM ever acknowledge the Republican Party as the party of Lincoln?
2. Trump wants to get disadvantaged people whether they be black, white or whatever OFF the welfare rolls. Trump wants to reduce government regulations and taxes that impede businesses from creating jobs. The dems want to keep peasants on the plantations.
Trump wants the Republican Party to act like the party of Lincoln and is trying to get the RINOs on board.
Oops. Did I say Kennedy? I meant Roosevelt. TR was actually a Progressive, which is about as far removed from a true Republican as one can be.
Thanks Kaslin, then even more so...
I don’t know that much about the man. If he has four stars, he’s no lightweight by any stretch of the imagination.
Once in a great while Matthew Dows has something of insight and interest to communicate.
This is not one of those times.
Well, truth be told, a 4-star is a General.
Dorothe kearns Goodwin said the same thing recently in a documentary, so it most be in the latest liberal talking points fax.
A week ago Kelly was the hero of the left and now he is satan.
And now the Left loves W, go figure.
LOL- dowd is the same dope who claimed on election morning Donald Trump had as much a chance of beating clinton as a high hockey team had of beating the NY Rangers...
oh yeh- he also said Mary and Joseph were “refugees” when in fact they were not and were just obeying the law...
They try to invoke Reagan as if they were ever on his side. They hated Reagan he was the foil to their guys like Gerald Ford.
“the Republican Party as they know it is gone”
Sounds like a plan.
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