Matthew Dowd, that Democrat who helped who helped Bush get elected (no, not Gore), has scored a deal with ABC News as an on-air contributor and blogger.

Dowd will be joining Karl Rove, ex-communications director Nicolle Wallace and former speech writers Michael Gerson and Matthew Scully as old Bushies who were able to score media jobs after leaving the White House.

With Ted Kennedy nabbing $8 million for his memoirs, the Rover getting something like $3 million, we’re starting to think politics would have been a more profitable foray into journalism than majoring in English.