James Carville, WTF?!! Carville joins the DLC BACKSTABBING of Howard Dean mere days after Dean's "50 state" strategy vindicated in election '06

James Carville (left) with Paul Begala, co-leaders of the winning 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign. Carville also wrote his book, solo, "We're Right, They're Wrong" about how the Right-Wing Republican agenda destroys the fabric of America.
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The last time we saw James Carville was on the eve of the 2000 election, when he and his wife, Mary Matlin, took their dog-and-pony show to a South Florida Univesity to talk poltics about the upcoming election. Since there were only about 200 students, faculty, staff, and locals at the event (out of a body of thousands), there was something of a scandal over the Carville's enormous speaking fees. The defining aspect of the the tag-team speech was that Carville REFUSED to go after the record of Texas Governor George W. Bush, despite Bush saddling Texas with (even back then) billion-dollar deficits, and despite Bush's every campaign promise being either an outright lie or a severe distortion. (e.g., Gov. Bush bragging about his "education" credentials, DESPITE SLASHING PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDS in that state for - what else - Tax CUTS for Texas' wealthiest corporations.)

As Mr. Carville well knew in 2000, Democrats ONLY win campaigns when they AGGRESSIVELY GO AFTER the RECORD of their Republican opposition. FAILURE of Dems to AGGRESSIVELY counter Repub. propaganda means that Republican fundraising and donations will trump wishy-washy Democratic campaigns.

SO, essentially, James Carville, the ring-leader of the Clinton-Gore "War Room" in 1992, and the campaign strategist who came up with "IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID" unofficial motto of that 1992 campaign, was advocating that Gore run a 2000 "politics as usual" campaign, talking POLICY and not personality (can you say "BORING"?) and we can only surmise that he did so out of deference to his wife, A LEADING Republican CAMPAIGN STRATEGIST.

As James Carville well knows, The Republican Congress and the Bush administration are SYNONYMOUS with CORRUPTION, INCOMPETENCE, and at times almost treasonous betrayal of the principles that have made America great. (For example, #1. In 2000 Gov. Bush campaigned as a "Uniter, NOT Divider" and as a "More BIPARTISAN leader," yet in early 2001, Bush NEGLECTED his duties to defend America from known Al Qaida threats, and instead spent the ENTIRE SUMMER of 2001 either on vacation, or at REPUBLICAN PHOTO-OPS, FUNDRAISERS, and BASH-DEMOCRATS media campaigns, including the ENTIRELY FABRICATED "White House TRASHING scandal." #2. Where has Carville been on the subject of DIEBOLD secret voting machines, and their INHERENT inaccuracy and untrustworthiness of those "privatized" no audit, no verification machines?)

Mr. Carville, by TOLERATING this Republican thuggishness.. by NOT GOING TO THE MAT to DEFEND Democrats WRONGLY ACCUSED by Republican bullying, fear-mongering, SMEAR-MONGERING, and DISENFRANCHISEMENT, you are as COMPLICIT with those Repub. smear-campaigns as the Washington Post, New York Times, and other "major media" have been.

There are FORMER REPUBLCIANS **DISGUSTED** with the Bush White House and Tom DeLay's corrupt, Lame-Duck Congress.. but you won't get a LICK OF THAT OUTRAGE from the guy who was NOTHING BUT OUTRAGE in 1992.

Instead, Carville reserves his outrage.. and long knives.. for HOWARD DEAN, the outsider (like Gov. Clinton was in 1992) who was pretty much robbed of the Democratic '04 nomination by the "ain't Kerry a hero!" DLC and Democratic DC machine, which JUMPED ALL OVER DEAN in '04... without giving Democratic votes a FIGHTING alternative!


(check here for Joe Conason's short-but-sweet take on Dean's WINNING strategy...)
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2006/11/10/dean_dems/

PS: Harold Ford kept running so far to the RIGHT to woo Tennessee voters, that if the RNC had offered him a job as a Republican candidate, we can imagine him considering the offer.)
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A PUTSCH AT THE DNC?:
http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=56467

Some big name Democrats want to oust DNC Chairman Howard Dean, arguing that his stubborn commitment to the 50-state strategy and his stinginess with funds for House races cost the Democrats several pickup opportunities.
The candidate being floated to replace Dean? Harold Ford.
Says James Carville, one of the anti-Deaniacs, "Suppose Harold Ford became chairman of the DNC? How much more money do you think we could raise? Just think of the difference it could make in one day. Now probably Harold Ford wants to stay in Tennessee. I just appointed myself his campaign manager."

--Ryan Lizza