Posted on 11/15/2006 10:41:19 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Democratic strategist James Carville says his party should dump Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic Party because of incompetence.
Carville, during coffee and rolls with political reporters today, said Democrats could have picked up as many as 50 House seats, instead of the nearly 30 they have so far.
The reason they didn’t, he said, is the Democratic National Committee did not spend some $6 million it could have put into so-called “third tier” House races against vulnerable Republicans.
Carville said the other Democratic campaign committees had borrowed to the hilt.
He said he tried to meet with Dean to argue for additional spending for Democrats in the final days of the campaign, but Dean declined and gave no reason why.
Asked by a reporter whether Dean should be dumped, Carville replied, “In a word, do I think? Yes.”
He added, “I think he should be held accountable.” He added, “I would describe his leadership as Rumsfeldian in its competence.”
Carville likened the Democratic takeover of Congress to the civil war battle at Gettysburg, which the Union army won but failed to pursue the Confederate army when it retreated.
“We should have chased them down,” Carville said. There was no immediate response from Dean or the DNC.
Hellary begins the final steps of taking over the party.
Serpent Head vs. The Scream Queen: 'RAT food fight!
Like Howard Dean is anywhere near as clear and competent as Donald Rumsfeld.
It seems very "Carvillian" for him to speak like that!
I think the Clinton gang figured the GOP would keep control and they could use that as an excuse to dump Dean after the election. Now they may be stuck with him.
I just picture Hillary sitting innocently somewhere, like Michael Corleone in church, while all the old problems are dealt with.
Cat fight!
Yeah, Serpenthead - you had NO idea you were going to pick up 2 seats, let alone thirty.
The Clintonites are BAAAAACCCKKK!
I remember Carville making the statement in 2000 that Dems ought to encourage Republican bomb-throwers like Tom Feeney who was then President Pro Tem of the Florida Senate because it would cause a backlash. Feeney inspired the ire of Carville by suggesting that the Florida legislature should clear up the election 2000 confusion by stopping the election recount. Carville apparently thought that Feeney was a very divisive character who would create a backlash against the GOP.
As it happened, though, Feeney's constituents subsequently elected him to Congress, then re-elected him this last time around. It wasn't close.
So Carville's own judgment isn't particularly good, despite the fact that the Clinton flunkies worship him like a god.
She looks like the Joker from the first Batman film...
"If you have to go, go with a smile...."
"Rumsfeldian" incompetence? Nah, I'd call it Albrightian incompetence. That makes more sense.
I've already seen them re-propping T. McAuliffe back up. Maybe as interim.
Why can't the libs just ask their owner, George Soros for the money?
"Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! -- You didn't think I'd let you run the DNC after I start my 2008 campaign? "
"The swindler who bilked the helpless old people out of their life savings was Carvillian in deviousness..."
"The grifter and shake-down artist was Hillarian in her ability to avoid the authorities..."
"The turncoat was Murthian in his ability to seem like a flag-waving patriot..."
"The hypocrite was Pelosian when it came to the actual facts..."
Tee hee, bring back Terry McAuliff. He knew how to spread the money around......to his relatives in Florida. LOL
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