Fmr Bush Chief Strategist Compares Conservatives to the Flinstones, Sarah Palin to the Kardashians

The Blaze ^ | March 17, 2013 | Mytheos Holt

[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....

[TigersEye]

Matthew Dowd, former chief strategist for the 2004 George W. Bush campaign,...

Who Let The Dogs Out?

[hinckley buzzard]

Just another fossil from the dead and extinct Bush regime. He and Rove should have the decency to drag themselves off to the elephants graveyard where they belong.

[cripplecreek]

I said during the GOP convention that this would be the perfect theme music for the GOPe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

[greene66]

Amazing, finally seeing all these “behind the curtain” types who called the shots for the GOP establishment the past decade or so, and the obvious hatred they have for conservatism and mid-American values. All these scurrying creeps... Schmidt, Madden, Mehlman, Wallace. A bunch of condescending, liberal, elitist maggots who represent a whole “fifth column” of backstabbing saboteurs.

It’s astonishing how rife the GOP is with them, populating the whole corrupt beltway class, and in such positions of power, calling the shots. Just look at Rove, and his PAC designed to obliterate any opposition to his “ruling class” buddies. Never remotely thought that the Party I’ve exclusively supported and voted for my entire life would one day instill such revulsion as it does now. But it all started when I saw the backstabbing treatment given Palin. No longer have any faith or trust in the GOP whatsoever.

[KC_Lion]

Lols, that is because you and radiohead have class cripple.

Mine would be that clip of Penn Jillette doing what he does best.

[Digger]

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)....

Then the elites pushed Romney. Again they had it won on both. Then there is Boner. Do any here think he is not the problem?. He is all part of this corrupt "Two-Party Cartel". It won't matter in 2016. The elites will have both corrupt party nominees fighting it out for prez & again further erode the middle class to extinction. There is, if any, one way out of this to save us & that is all-out revolution. That ain't happening because we still will have a TV & a six-pack.

[dandiegirl]

I won’t vote for George P. Bush for anything. Bush’s are all liberal and try to hide it. Not honest.

[peeps36]

The republicans need to rid themselves of the Bush family and all the rino scumbags connected to them. That family has played a big part in bringing our country to where it is today. They hate Palin because she threatens the power they hold over the republican party. I'm not a big fan of Palin but she's far better then the Saudi puppets.

[cripplecreek]

December 2012 Rush Limbaugh.

The Republican Party is trying to do something in this primary that is unprecedented. They're trying to split the conservative vote and win the primary with a moderate, with Romney. It's the other way around. You consolidate your base and then you move to the center in the general. The Republican establishment has decided they don't want any part of conservatism. And this is really not new. People are surprised to hear this, but the Republican Party formative event with conservatism is Goldwater's landslide defeat. That's what they think of when they think conservative. They don't think Reagan. They think Goldwater.

They believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives. They're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers. They're embarrassing to have to go to the convention with them. And they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party. They're dumb. They're not erudite. They're not educated in Ivy League schools. We'll take their votes on election day, but we really don't want to hang around with them. We don't want anybody in Washington thinking that we're really that close to them and aligned with them. So in the process -- you know, it's a very sophisticated electorate. The Republican primary voter can sense that the Republican Party really doesn't like them, really doesn't want them, thinks that they are the route to defeat. That's the problem in a nutshell. The Republican establishment thinks that a conservative nominee is the route to defeat because they think Goldwater landslides are going to happen because they believe what the popular misconception the left has created of conservatives -- they think everybody thinks that.

Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren

[cripplecreek]

There’s always the Karl Rove theme song.

Liar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxrd_jZJxkg

[sten]

throwbacks? i’m guessing he’s happy with the ‘progress’ the federal govt has made.

personally, i couldn’t be more against what the fedgov has done in the last 4+ years

[lone star annie]

I have come to a realization about the Bush family. I think GWB’s entire presidency was a vendetta to rectify what happened to his Dad in 92. He went after SADDAM because he wanted to kill GHWB and he was continually criticized for not taking him out durng the Gulf War. His drastic turn to the left in his second term did unbelievable damage to our country and party and assured a Dem win. He did absolutely nothing to help the party during his 8 years and governed like a Dem and did nothing about the illegals. He restored food stamps for legal immigrants which created more of a magnet for the third world. I will never support another Bush.

[Nomedeplume]

the invasion of the (GOP) body-snatchers.

[Texas Fossil]

We need one of our quick draw artists to modify a Weed-B-Gon package to say RINO-B-Gon with the appropriate ball-less Rino image.

[publius911]

Fmr Bush Chief Strategist Compares Conservatives to the Flinstones, Sarah Palin to the Kardashians.

Mathew who?

[Plumberman27]

Oh some on now. They are both top heavy and both have a big caboose to even things out. Other than that totally opposite.

[bicyclerepair]

A worthless target attracts no fire.

[Kickass Conservative]

Another addition to my Bucket List, beating the crap out of Matthew Dowd just for the sheer joy of it.

What a little man he is and a Traitor to boot. I love that he is billed as a Republican Strategist. He is a snarky Rat, through and through.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Did you notice - Dowd's comment was full of colorful words and phrases, like "dinosaurs," "Flintstones." "Land Before Time," etc?

But there was absolutely no substance to anything he said.