Matthew Dowd falls out of love with W; why was he ever in love in the first place?

The question is, besides his talking about being in denial about Bush’s out-of-touchness, what he originally saw in Bush’s “Texas style of governing” to trust him in the first place?

After all, as a consultant to Lt. Gov Bob Bullock, he’d surely been enough of an Austin insider to hear about Bush’s Karla Faye Tucker imitation cackle, Bush’s funeral home crisis troubles and more.

In other words, Matthew Dowd was in denial in 1999, long before his claim to have recognized his denial in 2004. Dancing with the devil called Karl Rove is proof enough.