ABC’s Matthew Dowd On This Week: Mitt Romney Has Bigger Problems Than His Mormon Faith
On This Week today, Christiane Amanpour and the panel discussed the issue of Mitt Romney's Mormonism and whether it would be an issue for him to deal with in the Republican race for the presidency heading into primary season, or if he had too many other political problems to deal with to prioritize his...
Matthew Dowd On This Week: Rick Perry Looks And Sounds Too Much Like Bush
ABC political analyst and former George W. Bush election strategist Matthew Dowd was very impressed by Rick Perry on This Week today, but he thinks one of Perry's problems going forward in the election is that he reminds people too much of his predecessor. Dowd described Perry as "an incredible campaigner," and described the...
This Week: The Pros and Cons of Racial Profiling And Arizona’s Immigration Law
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sparked new controversy over Arizona's so-called "Show me your papers" law when her announcement (during a June 8 interview on Ecuadoran TV) that the Department of Justice would be suing the state of Arizona reached Governor Jan Brewer last week. The debate carried over to ABC's This Week, where...
Rev. Al Sharpton Schools This Week Panel and Obama Official on Arizona Law
On ABC's This Week, Jake Tapper moderated one of the best roundtables I've seen on any show, especially the segment on Arizona's new "Show me your papers" law. Most of nonsense that has been advanced to defend or mitigate it got thrown against the wall, and Reverend Al Sharpton stood out on the panel by scraping...
George Will Quietly Shuts Down Bill Maher On This Week’s Fiery Roundtable
Here's a possible solution to the calamitous ratings slide happening over at CNN: hire George Will and Bill Maher to co-host some sort of prime time show. If today's This Week roundtable was any measure it would certainly be must-see TV. Admittedly, it's a bit of an unlikely bromance, but it made for...
Former Bush Strategist Compares Catholic Child Abuse Scandal to Prius Recall
On ABC's This Week this morning, former Bush strategist and This Week fill-in host Matthew Dowd made an analogy so comically bad, it rivals the Vatican's "Priests-as-persecuted-Jews" narrative (for which they've just apologized). Dowd's response was to say that, from a PR standpoint, the Vatican has handled this worse than Toyota...
Paul Begala’s Take On Karl Rove Memoir: Grab The Jack Daniels
You'd expect James Carville to be the one that would use Karl Rove's new memoir as an excuse to remind everyone of a time he won an obscure, near-impossible political campaign, but it's his lifelong sidekick Paul Begala who is doing the honors this time around. Begala published his very best attempt at a fair...
James Carville ‘Frightened’ By Failure Of Health Care Bill, Midterm Elections
Perhaps it was too early in the morning, or something about being reunited with old pal George Stephanopoulos made him feel open to being emotional, but James Carville looked uncommonly vulnerable today discussing the 2010 midterm elections and health care reform on ABC’s Good Morning America. Joining Stephanopoulos and former Bush strategist Matthew Dowd, Carville...
