[HHFi]

I hate to say it because the guy makes me want to throw a brick at my TV (but then, I'm a Republican, so that's the reaction I'm supposed to have), but the only person I can think of who'd actually be able to help them is Carville. He may be an obnoxious snake, but he's not a Northeastern elitist or a West Coast poseur, and he's the only person they've got who's actually run a winning national campaign in the past 30 years. He's also at least clear-eyed enough to actually admit that the Democrats lost fair and square, and they need to quit bad-mouthing the voters and make some fundamental changes if they don't want to keep doing it.

But they won't pick him because they've turned into a religious cult, and they'd rather make the ideologically pure choice than the pragmatic one that will help them win. The other day, I got an email petition from some idiots wanting Howard "YEEEEAAAGHH!" Dean to run the party. Brilliant. Take the guy who had all the PR, all the endorsements, all the momentum and all the money and couldn't win a single primary; the guy whose campaign was so poorly managed, he blew all his money on commercials in Iowa and had nothing left to mount a comeback with when he lost; and put that guy in charge of all the strategizing and budgeting of your campaigns nationwide.

And they think Bush voters are drooling morons.

[Liz]

Keep in mind that Carville is so Sept 10.....a prehistoric type.

[Gum Shoe]

"...the only person I can think of who'd actually be able to help them is Carville."

I agree with you. They could wash the egg of his face and move him into the job.

[TheGeezer]

Evil Incarnate James Carville can't run the DNC. He consistently designs campaigns that energize the DemocRat base but alienates everyone else. In any campaign in which Evil Incarnate James Carville plays a role, the DemocRats get 48% of the popular vote and no more (Clinton and Kerry). But you may have a point beneficial to the nation: with Evil Incarnate James Carville in the DNC chair, he'd probably do no better than McAwful.