Political Life Lesson
James Carville in Salon today with this:

• "Do you think Daschle's been tough enough at this point?
  
  I don't think Daschle ought to be the focus he is. I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own. I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself. And that's basically my message. The Republicans are hard-hitting, ruthless, and we don't have to do everything they do, but we ought to be just as willing to stand up for what's right as they're willing to stand up for what is wrong.
  
  But Democrats don't do that ...
  
  I agree. I think there's a culture in the party that has to change.
  
  There's a great article in the Washington Monthly about that ...
  
  It's wonderful. I called the guy that wrote it and told him he wrote a hell of an article ...
  
  You could have written it.
  
  Well, I couldn't find much of anything to disagree with in it. He points out how a nasty Op-Ed article in the Washington Post can completely paralyze the Democratic Party, and he's right."

Too bad most Democratic politicians are scared to death of Clinton and anyone associated with him. It's almost a mark of Cain as far as I can tell. Hopefully this fall we'll see the party take up some of Carville's ideas and defend itself the way Carville did Clinton.

- posted by levinson @ 3/11/2002 07:25:00 AM