Cajun Rage
March 29, 2008 on 12:08 pm | In Main, Race for Prez |
There’s a wise maxim in politics (called it Cowgill’s Rule) that if you have to use 18 column inches in The Washington Post explaining a foolish comment, then you’ve only dug yourself a deeper hole. Sometimes discretion is the better part of stupidity.
Such is the case with poor James Carville, whose affinity for loyalty is almost legendary. In a turkey of an op-ed today, the otherwise brilliant Carville lapsed into a fit of idiocy by essentially saying he was justified in comparing Bill Richardson to Judas because Bill Clinton had made Richardson what he is today.
Leaving aside the deep insult to Richardson, Carville’s comments are a vivid illustration of what so many of us don’t like about the Clintons and the people around them. They have a sense of entitlement that takes your breath away.
Sure, Richardson might owe Bill a favor or two for giving him a job in the Clinton administration, but why does he owe Hillary anything? I thought Hillary has made it clear that she’s the candidate this time around, not her husband.
Besides, isn’t the left always criticizing GWB and his ilk for prizing loyalty over competence? I guess it’s a matter of whose turkey is being gored.
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“…it’s a matter of whose turkey is being gored.”
Perilously close to being a mixed metaphor.
Carville… does America really want another four/eight years of his ilk? I think not.
Comment by Jake — March 29, 2008 #
No, and speaking of loud-mouthed, Machiavellian politicos, America doesn’t want another four/eight years of Karl Rove and his ilk either. If there is a political God, we will have neither of them come 2009.
And speaking of mixed metpaphors I once had a student who wrote in a journal entry that Hamlet’s paralyzing indecision was “killing him. He needs to step up to the plate and take the bull by the horns.”
That kid wound up at Fairfield University, where I hope the Jesuits drummed some rhetorical sense into him.
Comment by Terry — March 29, 2008 #
Carville has always struck me as being some kind of political idiot savant, one gene removed from the kid playing the banjo on the porch in ” Deliverance. ” Speaking of removed. Given his recent behavior and comments, I’d remove the savant part, leaving that one word:
Idiot.
Comment by Terrence McCarthy — March 30, 2008 #