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.
I just found this statement: “Newt’s post-primary employment is the kind of thing that needs to be discussed in quiet rooms” and “you’ll get him under control in a few months” - very ominous like blackmail, or some sort of legal action, or more new skeletons... I listen to Carville when I can, I like the way he fights, just not who he fights...
And maybe you don’t want somebody like Newt wounded AND mad at you... ok, that gives me a little peace... thx
I took that to mean that the Koch brothers should secure Newt a tenured job teaching history somewhere as a sinecure, to take him out of the primary picture once his star begins to fade some more. (Presuming Newt will fail in the Southern primaries, which he probably will not. But you know Serpent Head is only trying to be helpful, nod wink.)