Carville's Still On A Tear, But Rahm and Dean Will Bury The Hatchet

[kpete]

November 16, 2006
Carville's Still On A Tear, But Rahm and Dean Will Bury The Hatchet

As James Carville continues his crusade to oust Howard Dean as DNC chair, DCCC chair Rahm Emanuel wants to conciliate.

According to sources in the DNC and DCCC, Emuanel called Dean this morning to distance himself from the tone and general tenor of Carville's remarks. In a short conversation, Emanuel acknowledged that he shared some of Carville's opinions about the DNC's priorities but said he did not share Carville's wish that Dean ought to be ousted as DNC chair.

Dean called Emanuel on election night, and the two had a friendly conversation, according to sources affiliated with both men.

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After the private meeting, the two will likely take their rapprochement public.

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/11/carvilles_still.html

[PVnRT]

1. Good

I'm not a huge fan of Rahm, but if those two can work together, very good things will happen.

[bigtree]

2. of course they will

that makes sense

[sandnsea]

3. Good to hear

Rahm worked his ass off on this election. He had a different view of how to win than Dean, but there's no doubt to his commitment. I think if the two of them get together, they can make great things happen in 2008.

[longship]

4. Rahm and Dean should visit with Carville.

And explain to him, very clearly, why he should shut the fuck up.

[KharmaTrain]

8. Why Bother...A Picture Will Say A Thousand Words

What has Carville done for Democrats lately? He's irrelevant.

The person who should come out and support Dean is Hillary. That'd be a real slap at Carville. But I'm not holding my breath.

[havocmom]

5. Carville is irrelevant and not happy about it.

Perhaps his wife is too busy trying to figure how to keep her ass outta prison to give him the attention he so obviously craves.

Too bad there isn't an 'ignore pundit' button on all TV remotes :evilgrin:

[MannyGoldstein]

6. Has Mrs. Clinton Distanced Herself From Carville's Frothing Crap?

:crazy: ?

[KittyWampus]

7. The "Tension" between the difference in Rahm and Dean's desires and strategies

is a GOOD THING!

Someone posted an article about Rahm (Chicago newspaper) and he said Carville was a pain in the ass before the election. Kept calling with unsolicited (and bad) advice.

[gratuitous]

9. A welcome report

As long as Carville was out there promoting his "messiah" theory of the Democratic victory, it made Emanuel (and by extension the Clintons) look like they were endorsing this nutty theory. By distancing himself from Carville, Emanuel gains some credibility.

Put another way, Carville is trying to sell the idea that Emanuel and Emanuel alone was responsible for any Democratic pick-ups, and that Dean was actually hindering Emanuel with his 50-state strategy. It's nonsense. Carville is nowhere on record before the election saying that Democrats were going to gain control of both the House and the Senate, or that Democrats were poised to grab anywhere near the number of House seats they did.

Carville is trying to pump life into a scenario more suited to another political party that really (and I mean really) likes to hitch its political fortunes to one man, say a Ronald Reagan or a George Bush. The Democrats' smashing victory in 2006 was the result of a lot of people working real hard on a variety of fronts. Not just Emanuel and Dean, but the Clintons, and John Kerry, and a big bunch of new candidates, and a lot of energized professional staffers, and a lot of eager volunteers, all working as if they had a chance to win, and the pre-election polls told them just that.

Carville would really like to sell his point of view as all-knowing political guru; after all, his livelihood depends on it, and some politician somewhere is going to hire him and his team for big bucks to try to win a race. But the rest of the Democratic party doesn't have to listen to him, and doesn't have to buy his version of what happened in the 2006 election. We can see what happened before our own eyes and judge for ourselves. And Carville's version, as it turns out, is full of malarkey.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

10. They don't call him the raging cajun for nothin'. Carville has a bad temper.

n/t

[Cha]

11. Very Good! This makes me

happy to read.

[asjr]

12. I still want Howard Dean for my president.

[rocktivity]

13. Sounds like Emanuel has awakened and smelled the coffee

Either that, or he realizes he's making a fool of yourself. Stop worrying about the liberal end of the Dem party taking over, Rahm--that's ALREADY happened whether you likes it or not!

Meanwhile, check out this DU poll asking about Carville's real motives.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Jim Sagle]

14. Excellent news!

I can now retract some of what I said about Rahm. I don't like his shortsightedness, egotism and corporatism, but it seems plausible that he is a real Democrat, not a stealth Republican.