Ex Bushie to "Moderate" This Week This Week

Looks like the mouse has finally climbed into the Republican Party's pocket. Imagine the hue and cry if this were DeeDee Myers or Joe Lockhart. ADDED- Which made me think- is there a shortage of straight (meaning bias not sexual) reporters? First one that comes to mind for me from ABC would be Martha Raddatz, but there's a whole crapload over there that would be much better than Dowd.

Chief strategist of the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign and current ABC News contributor and political analyst Matthew Dowd will fill the rotating moderator seat on ABC's "This Week" this Sunday, TVNewser has learned.

Dowd is the first non-anchor or correspondent to moderate the program since it began rotating hosts after George Stephanopoulos left the program for "Good Morning America." It will be Dowd's first time anchoring a program.

ABC News tells us, "Since joining ABC in 2007, Matthew Dowd has provided independent and fair analysis on issues confronting the country. He has tremendous ability to speak to and understand all sides of an issue."

Vid via Heather.