Matthews Flips on 'Strange,' 'Desperate' Jeb Bush for Selling His 'Soul'

[See NewsBusters for more.] An angry Chris Matthews on Monday flipped on Jeb Bush, abandoning the man he'd previously cheered for having the "guts" to stand up to conservatives. Matthews raged against the potential 2016 candidate for insisting he would make the same decision on Iraq as his brother, George W. Bush. The Hardball anchor fumed over "this strange, weird, desperate behavior of Jeb Bush."      Matthews ran through the possibilities of why Bush made the public declaration. One conclusion was that he wants "the huge money out there awaiting sitting there for any Republican presidential candidate who will pledge his soul to right-wing Mideast policies." According to the cable host, "the reason people initially took him seriously as a candidate" is because of the "assumption he's smarter than his brother."