{"id":1099261,"date":"2021-12-08T15:28:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1099261"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:28:56","slug":"nolte-matthew-dowd-announces-withdrawal-from-texas-race-in-love-letter-to-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-matthew-dowd-announces-withdrawal-from-texas-race-in-love-letter-to-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolte: Matthew Dowd Announces Withdrawal from Texas Race in Love Letter to Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnolte-matthew-dowd-announces-withdrawal-from-texas-race-in-love-letter-to-himself%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1099261&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/33417980011_f2c4af580e_k-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrat Matthew Dowd dropped out of his doomed race for Texas Lt. Governor by penning a love letter to himself.<\/p>\n<p>In the annals of self-regard, of casting yourself as the brave and selfless hero of your own story, Matthew Dowd manages to make Jake Tapper (D-CNN) look humble.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3674911660777\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Important news.  I am ending my campaign for Lt. Governor of Texas.  Now that the race is emerging in a more diverse way, I have made the decision from a place of integrity to step back.  see attached release. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SOl8ZJJFnz\">pic.twitter.com\/SOl8ZJJFnz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewjdowd\/status\/1468289518893682688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cImportant news,\u201d the former ABC News commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewjdowd\/status\/1468289518893682688\">tweets<\/a> (without telling is who might find it important). \u201cI am ending my campaign for Lt. Governor of Texas. Now that the race is emerging in a more diverse way, I have made the decision from a place of integrity to step back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>I have made the decision from a place of integrity.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>A place of integrity. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Integrity? This is the same guy, who announced his run for office just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/30\/nolte-matthew-dowd-runs-for-office-after-demanding-white-christian-males-stop-running-for-office\/\">two years<\/a> after calling for \u201cwhite male Christians\u201d to stop running for political office.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, after so brazenly violating that pledge, in this hilarious love letter to himself, he\u2019s claiming he\u2019s dropping out of the race to honor that pledge, and not because his campaign was gaining absolutely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/11\/08\/texas-republican-election\/\">zero traction<\/a>\u2014unless you consider online mockery traction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always strived to be a person of integrity by living the values I espouse,\u201d Dowd writes in the color purple. \u201cI fall short, but each day I make every attempt to be the person I want to see in the mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I swear, I\u2019m not making this up\u2026<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo that end, I have decided to step back, not file in the Democratic primary, and end my campaign,\u201d he continues. \u201cWhen I first announced, the only other candidate was a white male Christian. A diverse field is now emerging\u2026 I do not want to be the own who stands in the way of the greater diversity we need in politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, y\u2019all, Dowd\u2019s nine percent <a href=\"https:\/\/texaspolitics.utexas.edu\/set\/matthew-dowd-favorability-october-2021\">favorability rating<\/a> had nothing AT ALL to do with this decision.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5253623188406\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) was correct in saying to be more confrontational, but he added that \u201cdoesn\u2019t mean we should be more violent.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MUSiDbkxfx\">https:\/\/t.co\/MUSiDbkxfx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1384916109166514179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nor did the fact he raised only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/politics\/article\/Democrat-Matthew-Dowd-ends-campaign-for-Texas-16682618.php\">$373,000<\/a>, compared to his Democrat primary opponent\u2019s $1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/news\/local\/politics\/article\/Democrat-Matthew-Dowd-ends-campaign-for-Texas-16682618.php\">the fact<\/a> that \u201cCollier had beaten Dowd in early fundraising and had also recently rolled out a slew of Democratic endorsements to try to secure his position as the leading Democratic candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Dowd\u2019s love letter to himself continues\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not dropping out of politics\u201d he threatens. \u201cI will continue to speak out on democracy and help elect servant leaders with commons sense and common decency[.]\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So let me see if I am able to fully grasp this\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In order to promote more \u201cdiversity\u201d in politics, Dowd \u2014 a white guy \u2014 tried to use his Big Media Profile to bigfoot all over the Texas Lt. Governor\u2019s race, because that\u2019s the, uhm, best way to promote diversity?<\/p>\n<p>Who does this self-aggrandizing narcissist think he\u2019s kidding? You don\u2019t promote racial diversity by being a white guy out gunning to get the job. You promote diversity by boosting non-white guy candidates. Instead of being feted at fancy fundraisers, you go out and recruit and encourage non-white guys to get into the race\u2026 You hold fundraisers for <em>them,<\/em> not for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not as though there was this yawning need for someone \u2014 <em>anyone! \u2014<\/em>to jump in the race. There was already a white guy running in the Democrat primary\u2014Mike Collier. Further, the race is months and months away\u2014plenty of time for a non-white guy to jump in the race. By adding himself to the mix, all Dowd did was make to it even harder to a non-white guy to jump in.<\/p>\n<p>What a thing is must be to live in the kind of velvet bubble Dowd does, a bubble where this kind of slimy pomposity, this creepy pridefulness, this self-satisfied egotism, does not get you laughed out of the club.<\/p>\n<p>To any normal person, Matthew Dowd has just made a five-alarm fool of himself. But within the velvet bubble of the media, he\u2019s everything his self-admiration says he is.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Follow John Nolte on Twitter <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NolteNC\"><strong><em>@NolteNC<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>. <em>Follow his Facebook Page <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JohnNolteNC\/?skip_nax_wizard=true\"><strong><em>here<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Matthew Dowd dropped out of his doomed race for Texas Lt. 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