could somebody explain this paragraph, please, because I think Carville is a jerk but he knows hard politics:
“The problem that you have now is not Newt. It may take a few months, but you will get him under control. Your in-house network — the boys over at Fox (I’m sorry, Greta, I meant the people over at Fox) — thought they had wired Newt up to go positive, but they found out it is difficult to control a Tulane man. Don’t worry, he just got sucker punched. Soon enough he and all of his “baggage” will be sent packing. Newt is fighting now, but he will come around as I am sure the Koch brothers are in need of a good historian. Get my drift? Newt’s post-primary employment is the kind of thing that needs to be discussed in quiet rooms.
what does “the boys over at Fox (I’m sorry, Greta, I meant the people over at Fox) — thought they had wired Newt up to go positive” mean?
what does “Newt’s post-primary employment is the kind of thing that needs to be discussed in quiet rooms” mean?
what does “Soon enough he and all of his “baggage” will be sent packing.” mean - it sound more ominous than losing in the normal process of primaries...
anyone who can help, thanks very much.
I think what he was trying to say about the ‘go positive’ is the talking heads at Faux News kept saying that Newt’s numbers were going down when he started going negative against Romney....so, they were attempting to tell Newt not to ‘whine’ and criticize Romney (that’s what I think Carville meant).
As to the other comment as to Newt’s being a historian, I took that to me an implied threat to their own skeletons in the closet; they might want to be careful: Newt might find a job exposing some of their own, post-election, should he not be elected. He might go on his own ‘seek and destroy’ mission.