This morning, NPR's Morning Edition ran a story about the reformulation of strategies in the Democratic and GOP leadership. In it, Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd lets the truth slip out during an interview with Steve Inskeep. Here's the lead-in to the interview:

STEVE INSKEEP: Like many Democrats, Howard Dean contends that Republican rhetoric has distracted working Americans. He said so-called "values issues" kept people from embracing Democratic efforts to improve their jobs or their lives. What's surprising is that Republican strategist Matthew Dowd offers a similar analysis.

I transcribed the key portion of the interview below the jump.

MATTHEW DOWD: People, I think, have a tendency to think that voters vote in their self-interest. And I think that was some people's assumption about blue-collar voters, that people thought, "Well, the economy's not as good as it should be and it could be better under a Democrat." But people were weighing things for the national interest and what they thought was in the best interest nationally or for their state. It's much more about national interest.

STEVE INSKEEP: The author Thomas Frank got a lot of attention last year by pointing out that many Americans seemed to be, as he put it, "voting against their own economic self-interest". He thought that was a bad thing. I assume you don't, but it sounds like you would agree with him.

MATTHEW DOWD: Yeah, I agree with–that people voted against their own self-interest but I think it's a very good thing.

Fast-forward to 3:20 for the above excerpt.