Some big name Democrats want to oust DNC Chairman Howard Dean, arguing that his stubborn commitment to the 50-state strategy and his stinginess with funds for House races cost the Democrats several pickup opportunities.
The candidate being floated to replace Dean? Harold Ford.
Says James Carville, one of the anti-Deaniacs, "Suppose Harold Ford became chairman of the DNC? How much more money do you think we could raise? Just think of the difference it could make in one day. Now probably Harold Ford wants to stay in Tennessee. I just appointed myself his campaign manager."
This is the same James Carville who told his she-bitch of a wife that John Kerry was preparing to go to battle over 250,000 provisional ballots in Ohio in 2004 (as reported by Bob Woodward). Clearly Carville, like George Snuffleupagus before him, is no friend of Democrats. Bill Clinton has been out of office for six years, and Carville's connection to Democrats was, as far as I'm concerned, broken the day he married one of the most odious water-carriers for the worst of the wingnuts now running this country. And this same she-bitch is now being touted to replace Ken Mehlman as head of the RNC.
So Jim Carville can go fuck himself. And Democrats ought to keep as far away from this shithead as possible.
And Howard Dean's spokeswoman Karen Finney responds:
After the Republicans have admitted to a thumping, why is it that the only one complaining on the Democratic side is James Carville, who today in addition to trashing Howard Dean, praised the RNC, the outfit that brought us the racist ad that defeated Harold Ford, James' supposed candidate for Chair?
Perhaps he's not aware that under Dean in this midterm election the DNC has raised record cash --- all hard dollars -- including three times as much from major donors, eight times as much online and made a $30 million investment in the '06 cycle, three times as much as the DNC put into the last midterm. Not to mention we made an $8m overhaul of our voter file which was successfully used in 47 states and through the 50 state strategy invested in states like Pennsylvania, Kansas, Indiana and Montana where we had critical victories on Tuesday.
The DLC is pissed, and so are their friends in the media. The spin of Tuesday's election as some kind of Great Victory for Conservatism is the DLC's way of trying to delude itself that it's still relevant. They may be making noise about Ned Lamont's loss, but they don't note that it's when Ned Lamont started listening to Hillary Clinton's DLC consultants that his campaign fell apart. And they aren't paying any attention at all to the fact that Jon Tester, Jim Webb, and Claire McCaskill were all netroots-supported candidates in RED STATES. If the DLC and Rahm Emmanuel had had their way, we would have been seeing progressive bloggers already being marched to those KBR internment camps in Texas.
It's over for the DLC, and they refuse to face that fact as stubbornly as Bush refuses to face the fact that his war is lost, he is now irrelevant, and he will go down in history as the worst president ever to plague this country. The DLC is tied with this White House and with the whole K Street culture and it can't accept that the party is over and the trough is now empty.
I'm with Matt Stoller on this one: If Carville is effective in ousting Howard Dean and replacing him with a DINO like Harold Ford, we will proverbially cut these fuckers off at the proverbial knees.
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