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Have the Democrats wasted the first night of the convention? Yes, says Democratic Strategist and CNN contributor James Carville. Speaking on CNN, Carville said the party was too soft in its attacks on John McCain Monday night — the same mistake, Carville says, Democrats made at the 2004 convention. "You haven't heard about Iraq or John McCain or George W. Bush ..."

Hillary Clinton won among white voters in West Virginia by a 67-26% margin. Pretty lopsided. Then again, that's nearly an even split compared to the 90+ percent of black votes Barack Obama's been racking up in state after state. So who does Diane Sawyer suggest should reject race-based votes? Senator 90+? Nope. James Carville was Sawyer's guest during the GMA's opening half-hour today. DIANE SAWYER: I want to talk about the fact that 20% of the voters coming out of the West Virginia race said race was in fact a factor in their vote, and of those Senator Clinton won...

A youtube video surfaced today[video no longer availablelive leak video below fold] supposedly showing a vid made in 1992 of James Carville, George Stephanopolous, and Mickey Kantor conferring over polling results for Indiana.

Just when you thought the conflagration over James Carville's Judas analogy might be dying down, here comes Derrick Z. Jackson to pour some gasoline on the flames with a return-fire Judas shot of his own. Readers will recall that when Bill Richardson endorsed Obama, Clinton-fan Carville chose Good Friday to say: Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic." Offered the chance to apologize or withdraw his remarks, the cantankerous Cajun declined, choosing instead to rub in his remarks:...

At Dallas event, Democratic strategist Carville takes aim at Cornyn08:18 AM CDT on Wednesday, March 26, 2008By DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News dmichaels@dallasnews.com James Carville came to Dallas on Tuesday and deployed his sharp wit against Texas Sen. John Cornyn, taking the aim off fellow Democrats who don't support Hillary Rodham Clinton in the strident presidential contest. Mr. Carville, a political strategist and Clinton confidant, hasn't backed away from his comparison of Bill Richardson, former Bill Clinton Cabinet secretary, to Judas for endorsing Barack Obama. At a forum at SMU, he mocked criticism of Democratic infighting, boosted Democratic...

Three voices of the Clinton campaign, three distinctly different takes on its fortunes. James Carville is candid about the pickle Hillary's in: win Texas and Ohio or go home. Hillary, true to form, utterly dodges the question as to whether those are must-win states. Ah, but there's always Terry McAuliffe. The proud graduate of the Baghdad Bob School of Flackery this morning declared that he's "more confident than he's ever been" about winning the nomination. Carville, appearing on last night's Larry King, couldn't have been more succinct. LARRY KING: If Hillary loses Texas or Ohio, is it over? JAMES CARVILLE:...

Let's play a Wednesday night game of WIARHSI: What If a Republican Had Said It? What if a top GOP consultant compared Barack Obama to a "dog"? James Carville, who acknowledged he was serving as an unpaid consultant to the Clinton campaign, used the metaphor on tonight's Larry King. View video here.

For Democrats, things rarely get much better than this. In 2008, they’ll be running to succeed an unpopular incumbent, against an opposition that has rarely been more disorganized or dispirited. Polls show a Democratic advantage on major issues nearly across the board. Amid all these favorable signs, it’s only natural that some of the party’s top strategists would be pondering the same question: Wonder how we’ll screw it up this time? “We are a little bit of a shellshocked political party. We somehow or another always figure out a way to blow it,” Democratic strategist James Carville said. “Democrats have...

A Laguna Beach investment firm filed a lawsuit against Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu on Friday, claiming he defrauded investors out of at least $23 million and required them to donate to Democratic candidates. According to the lawsuit filed by Briar Wood Investments, Hsu persuaded the company's operator to do business with him by taking him to star-studded Democratic Party events. There, the 56-year-old Hong Kong native was praised by New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown and others, the lawsuit said. As a condition of doing business with the fundraiser, Hsu directed investors to make contributions...

James Carville is quoted in the original NewsMax story, "We have to constantly remind people of the stakes involved, and the choice they have." (see Orignial NewsMax Story) I couldn't agree more, James! Here's our contribution to your efforts. This is a compilation of my favorites from original thread posted by 2ndDivisionVet plus a number of my own. Vote Democrat: You'll Look Great in a Burqa. Democrats: Pandering to anyone who'll vote for us since 1932. Democrats: Just Win, baby! Vote Democrat: Have it our way! Democrats: We cry harder! Vote Democrat: The antidote for civilization. The Democratic Party: The...

Democratic operative James "Serpenthead" Carville (not to be confused with fake Republican Michael "Serpenthead" Chertoff) has announced a contest for the best bumper sticker slogan for Democrats in the '08 Election. Bakersfield Radio Host Jaz McKay (on whose show I appear every Thursday at 4:05 Eastern/1:05 Pacific) talked about this on his show, yesterday. Since I desperately wanted to enter this all-important competition, I asked David Lunde to create this bumper sticker (thanks to the Elton John song for inspiration), and I humbly say, I think it's the BEST! Your car and bodice can soon sport this design. Look for...

Political pundit James Carville has sent out a mass e-mail on behalf of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee seeking "the bumper sticker slogan that will carry us through the 2008 elections.” Carville – lead strategist for Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign – said the slogan will be used on the DSCC’s Web site, on campaign literature and on the "bumpers of jalopies from coast to coast.” The e-mail to presumed Democratic supporters states: "We need a turn of phrase that really jumps out and tells you right off the bat what this election is all about. In 1992, it...

If Karl Rove was responsible for dividing America and shredding the Constitution – heady achievements for a political consultant – inquiring minds want to know: Who is the liberal Karl Rove? And since the answer is obviously, “There isn’t one,” perhaps we can glean something from asking why.

Democratic political strategist James Carville is revisiting the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s attack on John Kerry in 2004 to scare up financial support for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In a mass e-mail sent out under the "Hillary for President” banner, Carville offers a quote from the StopHillaryPAC: "Those Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were the real heroes of the 2004 election. We at the StopHillaryPAC want to do the same thing to Hillary.” Carville writes: "You read that right. There are people who think the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth are heroes for what they did in 2004 –...

Carville Slams Journalists For Not Appreciating Hillary’s ‘Sophisticated’ Comedy Posted by Scott Whitlock on January 29, 2007 - 17:59. CNN analyst, author, and former Clinton operative James Carville appeared on Monday’s "Good Morning America" and complained that journalists are too tough on Hillary Clinton. Referring to the comment made by the New York Senator and 2008 presidential candidate that she has experience dealing with "evil and bad men," Carville asserted that members of the media should be lauding her strong sense of humor. The Louisiana native also touted Mrs. Clinton’s nascent White House run, saying that it was the best...

The Democrats are still jubilantly congratulating themselves for returning to power in Congress but at the same time we see clear signals of their crackup and demise. In yesterday's EDITION we saw how the Cindy Sheehan loonies shouted down Rahm Emanuel and the professional Democrats and today we see even the professional Democrat pols sniping at each other as you can see in the title of this Daily Kos KOmmie THREAD, "Begala: Dean 'an a**hole from Vermont'." This was what a KOmmie claims he heard came from the lips of Paul Begala in Washington, D.C. yesterday. Although we have...

I don't know if reporter Naftali Bendavid intended it that way but her glowing Chicago Tribune article about Rahm Emanuel revealed some big Democrat fault lines that will have implications in the near future. We see one example of such tension at the beginning of The House That Rahm Built. Rahm Emanuel was seething.He was hurtling down an asphalt road in upstate New York on the 47th trip of his ferocious campaign to win back the House. A lecture, even from political consultant James Carville, was the last thing he needed.In just 12 days, his campaign would end in a...

The Democrat Civil War which we saw in the previous DUmmie FUnnies EDITION continues unabated as the hard core leftists have turned James Carville into the latest version of Emmanuel Goldstein. You can see the continuing Hate Week remarks directed towards him in this DUmmie THREAD titled, "James Carville is on a one-man mission to destroy the Democratic Congress." Not a week has yet gone by since the election and already the Left is fighting against the Clintonistas in their effort to coronate Hillary in '08. This will be quite an entertaining (and FUnnie) spectacle to watch so grab...

The Democrats have won an election campaign only to find themselves embroiled in a bloody civil war. What is going on is that the Hillary faction is now trying to dominate the entire Democrat party in order to facilitate her nomination coronation in '08. In order to accomplish this they MUST get rid of Howard Dean as chairman of the DNC and replace him with their own lackey. Clintonista James Carville has already suggested that Dean be replaced with Harold Ford, thus earning him the enmity of the Daily Kos KOmmies as you can see in this THREAD titled,...

James Carville and company announced in a recent memo to the Democrat faithful that the political season is now open and it is "time to go hunting." A review of the memo shows that not only are the Democrats betting their fortunes on either the utter collapse of the economy or a major homeland security fiasco, but their analysis of current trends and public opinion is completely off the mark. The latest memo from "Democracy Corps," the organization led by Carville, Stan Greenburg, and Bob Shrum, acknowledges that the "perception of success and strong leadership is helping the Republicans." Yet,...

Democrats Hammered In Memo March 3, 2005 Now, I mentioned earlier, ladies and gentlemen, that I had a revealing quote from the latest memo from James Carville and Stanley Greenberg to the Democrat rank and file. And here's the revealing paragraph as written by -- it's the Democracy Corps memo -- it's Greenberg and James Carville that came out yesterday. "So, we ask progressives to consider, why have the Republicans not crashed and burned? Why has the public not taken out their anger on the Congressional Republicans and the president? We think the answer lies with voters’ deeper feelings about...

Former Clinton political hitman James Carville, who recently touted New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for a 2008 presidential run, is reportedly behind an advertising campaign attacking President Bush for his 1990 sale of Harken Energy stock as well as his ties to the oil industry in general. American Family Voices, a group described by the New York Times as "secretive," has paid to run a 30-second commercial on cable news programs in Washington, D.C., and in New York through Thursday. The ad blasts President Bush as "sly like a fox" for talking down his dealings with Harken Energy, which Democrats...

In all the many media interviews with Bob Woodward about his book, State of Denial, they were almost exclusively focused on the supposed mistakes of the Bush administration. The pundits almost unanimously concluded that Woodward's book would therefore be harmful to the Republicans going into this November's elections. However, overlooked by them is a section of the Woodward book that is now causing a firestorm in the Leftwing blogosphere against perhaps the most important Democrat political operative of them all, James Carville. M.J. Rosenberg in "The Coffeehouse" blog asks, "Did Carville Tip Bush Off to Kerry Strategy (Woodward)"? I...

While the MSM is utterly consumed by the Foleygate Scandal, they are missing out on a huge political fratricide story in which the Leftwing Blogosphere is now blaming James Carville for their 2004 election loss. You probably haven't heard about this story yet because the likes of Chris Matthews and Tim Russert are having urinations of happiness in their diapers promoting the Foley story as the way to keep the "fundies" from turning out on election day due to what the MSM think will be their gullibility in swallowing the MSM promoted message that that they will blame the...

If there is any among you who still thinks the mass media isn't in the pocket of the Left, you merely have to compare how the Plame affair went from being the biggest scandal since Capt. Dreyfuss to a non-story once the crime couldn't be laid at the feet of Karl Rove or Dick Cheney. Of course, inasmuch as Valerie Plame was not an undercover operative, it was never a big deal. But once it turned out that Clinton colleague Richard Armitage was Shallow Throat, the media buried the story back among the classified ads. Liberals who are aware that...

LONDON (AFP) - In a finding that could help treat an inherited form of baldness, a research team in Manchester claims to have discovered a protein "code" that instructs cells to sprout hair. By sending the code to more cells than usual, the scientists at the University of Manchester say they were able to breed mice with more fur -- a feat that could potentially be replicated in humans. "During human development, skin cells have the ability to turn into other types of cells to form hair follicles, sweat glands, teeth and nails," explained Denis Headon, who led the research....

by Mark Finkelstein July 10, 2006 Give the Ragin' Cajun credit: the man works fast. In a Today show appearance lasting only six minutes, and shared with former Bush administration official Dan Senor, Carville managed to work variations on the word 'failure' into his comments no fewer than six times. At the same time, I defy anyone to read the transcript or watch a replay of Carville's comments on Pres. Bush''s foreign policy and find one solitary instance in which he proposes an alternative or even offers constructive criticism. His rap was utterly bereft of any notion of what the...

It used to be accepted political wisdom that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had a lock on the 2008 Democratic nomination. But support for Hillary by left-wing activists in the party has all but eroded. In apparent effort to win back the McGovern wing of the party, James Carville is out with a new column in the Washington Post. Co-authored with Democratic pollster Mark J. Penn, Carville has penned "The Power of Hillary.” In their article, the top Democratic strategists claim "We don't know whether Hillary will run" -- but quckly add: "But we do know that if she runs,...

Clinton political advisor James Carville told an audience at Duke University on Saturday that he's an enthusiastic supporter of "the H-bomb." No, Carville hasn't become a crusader for nuclear weapons. The "H-bomb" he supports is none other than Hillary Clinton, if she decides to run for president. During a Q & A session with the audience, Carville was asked for his predictions on the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race. According to the Durham Herald Sun, Carville responded: "As you can imagine, I'm for the H-bomb." "But I'd rather not predict, I'd rather affect," the one-time White House attack dog added,...

RUSH: Brian in Wilmington, North Carolina, I know you're still out there, because I know you're here every day, Brian, and I know a lot of you libs are out there. Let me tell you: I think this is probably everything that you're looking for. The reason that it took so long to release details of the hunting accident -- Dick Cheney and Harry Whittington -- is that Whittington is actually dead, and it took them about eight hours to go find a double for Mr. Whittington, because he's actually brain dead. He's so injured that he's being held...

George Soros is an exacting  taskmaster. In return for his money, he demands productivity. What he requires of employees and business associates in the investment world, Soros also demands from the political operatives he funds. “Mr. Soros isn't just writing checks and watching,” notes Wall Street Journalreporter Jeanne Cummings. “He is also imposing a business model on the notoriously unruly world of politics. He demands objective evidence of progress, and assigned an aide to monitor the groups he supports. He studies private polls to track the impact of an anti-Bush advertising campaign, and he is delivering his money in installments,...

Political strategist James Carville believes the Democratic Party "has a disease" that must be rectified – and soon – if the party has a chance of gaining back the White House or the Congress.In an exclusive interview with NewsMax, Carville is touting his latest book, co-authored by CNN's Paul Begala, entitled "Take It Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future." Both are savvy strategists who helped Bill Clinton win his come-from-behind victory that brought him from Little Rock to the White House in 1992. Later the pair were architects of Clinton's successful 1996 re-election. Today, they have changed roles from...

Top Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday that he has no intention of getting involved in the 2008 presidential race - unless Hillary Clinton asks him to manage her campaign. "I'll do anything in the world for Mrs. Clinton," the Ragin' Cajun told radioman Don Imus, adding: "I'm sure she'll tell us what her intentions are sometime." The one-time political pitbull had just finished explaining why he intended to stay out of the 2008 race, saying: "I'll be 64 and my kids will be something like 13 and 10 - I've got two little girls. And that kind of situation...

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption, announced today that on December 6, 2005, Judicial Watch will take its lawsuit on behalf of Gennifer Flowers to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The lawsuit alleges Ms. Flowers was subjected to a vicious smear campaign orchestrated by Hillary Clinton and carried out by former Clinton administration aides James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. Ms. Flowers was targeted after she publicly confessed to having a long-term affair with former President Clinton. According to Judicial Watch’s original complaint filed with the U.S. District Court...

<p>"Elections now!" thousands of pot-banging demonstrators chanted Tuesday night as they flooded the streets of Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital. Amid an escalating economic crisis and the Argentine legislature's recent assault on democracy, their outrage is unmistakable and thoroughly justified. On Tuesday, lawmakers scrapped the March 3 presidential elections and put in place a leader of its own choosing, Sen. Eduardo Duhalde, to hold power through 2003. Yesterday, the Peronist Party leader was given a farcical inauguration ceremony, making him Argentina's fifth president in two weeks.</p>

"SILLY SOCIAL SECURITY THING"? Democrats Too Busy To Work With President To Strengthen Social Security ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Democrats Have Other Priorities Than Social Security:   Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) Said She's Got "More Important Things To Ask About Than This Silly Social Security Thing." "Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.) managed to stir up some trouble last week at the Joint Economic Committee hearing chaired by Rep. Jim Saxton (R-N.J.). Testifying before the committee was Harvey Rosen, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Sanchez was evidently fed up with the contents of the hearing. 'I've more important things to ask about...

Culture & Cosmos April 12, 2005 Volume 2, Number 36 Democratic Strategists Issue Memo on Loss of Catholics A memo authored by a prominent Democratic strategy organization calls the decline in support of white Catholics for Democrats "striking" and "a big part of the 2004 election story." One of the analysis' key findings is that Catholic voters are becoming more pro-life which the authors called "a factor in the recent losses and one of the blockages for Democrats, at least in the Midwest." The data also reveals that young Catholics are more pro-life than their parents and that bishops who...

One of the tactics frequently employed by left-leaning politicos and activists (including Teddy Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, and Harry Reid, who represent the phalanx of the left wing of the Democrat Party in the U.S. Congress) is to introduce into the public debate a "MacGuffin," to use film director Alfred Hitchcock's term for a plot device that diverts viewers' attention from the real issues at hand. Under Hitchcock's not infrequently perverse direction, the MacGuffin became a means of manipulating the audience away from discovering in advance the ultimate resolution of a film's conflict. The Democrat Party has most recently employed this...

PETER JENNINGS REPORTING: UFO's: LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24 (8:00-10:00 p.m., ET) -- Each year there are thousands of reports of unidentified flying objects, but the U.S. government doesn't investgate any of them. This special program will seriously examine the unexplained phenomena around the world that so many people believe is proof of the existence of UFOs.

We received this in our e-mail pile without any indication of who wrote it. It was so good, we decided to post it anyway. To Michael Moore: Sit down and shut up. Your fifteen minutes are up. And do something about your hair. Looks can be deceiving, but not in your case... To Jimmy Carter: Big mistake to sit down next to Michael Moore at the convention. Spend more time with drywall and the glue gun. Or start lusting in your heart again. To Tom Daschle: If you lean too far to the left, voters will tend to lean right...

It may have all started with James Carville’s infamous political phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” The phrase was not intended to insult the American public. Certainly, they were not stupid. It was the sitting president that was stupid, of course. In his presidency, he had won a war in the Middle East, chased the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, and generally enjoyed overwhelming approval ratings until America began to focus on the economy…because they were told it was bad, bad, bad. Lets see, was it a recession…..or was it a depression? Whatever. Of course, the economy in 1992 was not...

As I was struggling with my latest musical composition, "Variations on a Phrase From Joe Walsh's Guitar Solo in 'Hotel California,'" it occurred to me that, just as they don't make guitar players like Joe Walsh any more, they don't make politicians like Bill Clinton any more. Joe Walsh is perhaps as famous to those in the know for his cocaine-fueled antics and for his desperate attempts to curtail his seriously over-the-top ingestion of Bolivian Marching Powder — he once hired a bodyguard whose sole responsibility was to make sure that Joe didn't get his hands on the White Lady...

The 2004 election is over, and the chads have been counted. Bush won, Kerry lost. Now, each side will assess the carnage, whip out crystal balls, and divine the future. Republicans learned our base is expanding. We finally exposed and attacked the thoroughly corrupt left-wing media. And we discovered morality is indeed a big issue. And we own it. Now, we’ll be fixing Social Security, appointing conservative judges, and ripping away the twin economic anchors of bureaucratic red tape and the punitive tax code. Towards 2008, we are looking at expanding the congress, maybe even a veto-proof 60-seat Senate majority...

Last week in this space there appeared a suggestion that New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd leave the island of Manhattan and take a tour around the country so that she could try and figure out how the supremely stupid, arrogant, demolisher of the extra-Constitutional "wall" between church and state, President George W. Bush, somehow managed to slay another Democrat in a election. Among the recommended destinations was Miami, where Dowd could perhaps interview some Cuban-Americans who could tell her how off-base she is when she talks and writes of a Bush “jihad” in the United States and school her...

In this television frame grab provided by NBC, Democratic strategist James Carville cracks an egg on his forehead to demonstrate he's got egg on his face after his projection of the outcome of the U.S. presidential election was wrong on NBC's 'Meet the Press' during a taping at the NBC studios November 14, 2004 in Washington, DC. Carville projected 52 percent of vote for U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), 47 percent for President George W. Bush and 1 percent for Ralph Nader

James Carville on CNN looks like he is about to cry!

The Kerry Cabinet by Dr. M. Sidney Wallace John Kerry is so confident in winning the election in November that he has already announced his transition team. Along with his publicly announced transition team here is a very guarded list of some of his new cabinet appointees. The Office of Secretary of State will be abolished. President Kerry intends to let the Ambassadors to the United Nations perform this role and he sees no need for the United States to have any matters of state that cannot be handled in the UN. The decisive and former President, Jimmy Carter will...

We’ll get back to John Edwards’ extraordinary comment about how the Kerry/Edwards ticket will cause cripples to walk and raise the dead. We begin, however, with one of the more extraordinary remarks by the ticket’s minions who now blanket the nation and infest the airways. This week on Linda Vester’s “Dayside” program on Fox, I saw an incredible burst of honesty by Chad Clanton, Deputy Director of Communications for the Kerry Campaign. The subject was the proposed broadcast on the 62 stations of the Sinclair Broadcast Group of “Stolen Honor,” a documentary which focuses on the reaction of veterans and...

The Clinton-Kerry-Clinton “Connection” by Col. Bob Pappas, USMC, Ret. The Clintons are on the Kerry bandwagon, or so it seems, after all, they and their former team are full swing on the Kerry campaign team or in support of it; there are Paul Begala, Joe Lockhart, and James Carville to name a few. Additionally, Ms. Clinton makes periodic statements supporting the erstwhile Senator; and, it is widely known that Mr. Clinton has had a number of lengthy conversations with Kerry in regards to his “campaign.” But, why? It is widely assumed, if not known, that Ms. Clinton has Presidential aspirations...