A brief Carville Diary

This diary entry is little more than a comment, but I'll allow myself to make it because I don't diarize much & I think this Carville-traitor business needs to be addressed right now, so I want to add whatever visibility I can to it.

Dr. Howard Dean is a true Democrat, a courageous man, a leader, an articulate spokesman for our party's principles and history, a successfuly governor of one of the fifty states of the United States of America, a physician, and a winner who is committed to democracy.  James Carville, who has just declared war on Dean ONE DAY AFTER OUR TSUNAMI-LIKE VICTORY is a media grotesque. He has demonstrated time and time again that to him this political enterprise is merely sport, like jousting or something. He cares about James Carville, about the thrill of the game, and about winning. Mainly, he is a has-been.

Well, fuck him.

I don't subscribe to the notion that the personal is political except in cases where people chose to make their own personal business political. Carville has made his personal life public by, among other things, writing a book about his marriage and going on television to promote it. So therefor it's worth noting that Carville is married to another media grotesque. What can we infer from this? We can infer that these are not serious people. James Carville is Punchinello. He's a very good Punchinello, and sometimes it's good to have stock characters like  him on your side. But that doesn't mean that he has anything useful to say to us about strategy or how to run our own affairs. Quite the contrary: his usefulness comes from his ability to cleverly hit people over the head with a stick.

And now he wants to backstab Howard Dean, the visionary who pointed the way to the promised land we now hold starting about four years ago--and kept pointing at great personal cost--in order to supplant him with failed senatorial candidate Harold Ford?

Um. . . James? (Mary?) How can I say this in a way that is not too harsh. . . ?

FORD LOST. YOUR ADVICE IS USELESS.

Carville and his TV-centric bunch of cynical Wasshington DC insiders and pundits still think they get to call the shots. Well, that's quaint. But their day is done, and since Carville does not seem to have gotten the memo, I guess we need to send it a little more loudly and a little more clearly.

I'm taking the pledge.  If Dean gets ousted, you can forget my contribution to the national party.  I'll still be a Democrat, still support our candidates, etc, etc.  But I'll take my cues from MYDD and DailyKOS and ActBlue as to whom to support and where to send what few dollars I may have to send.

Actually, I don't think it will come to that. Carville will be smacked down forcefully, I predict, like the troll he is.
Let this be his Schaivo moment.