Carville and Matalin on MTP again Sunday. Carvillean quotes from the past. [View All]

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Meet the Press again features the duo of Carville and Matalin. What one knows the other soon passes on to their bosses.

Their living room recently featured in Architectual Digest. Vivid colors.



The colors are as vivid as their words. I was just looking back at some of the things James Carville has said through the years. These are a few of the less colorful ones.

Carville quotes

The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That's why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.

Loverly comment.

And another.

Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don't have a clue as to political reality. What amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the exact opposite of their own personal convictions. Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want.

Well, James, the Republicans are pretty fearful folks even more so than our party.

Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.”

Truth is at your convenience then.

This from both of them in the 90s. This is a doozy.

"It stretches any credulity to believe that the White House could not stop this rabid dog. He's not my husband when I speak of him as a frothing, rabid dog. He's clearly a front for the president ... If anyone is close to obstruction of justice, it's the president of these United States whose pit bull is out front."

-- Radio talk show host and former Republican strategist Mary Matalin on yesterday's "Fox News Sunday," describing her spouse, Democratic consultant James Carville, who has attacked the integrity of Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr (The Washington Post, December 9, 1996).

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James Carville's reaction to hearing of Mary Matalin's comment: "I went home and bit her" (The Washington Post, December 11, 1996).

Carville sayings.

He may be off CNN temporarily until after the primarie. But MTP is welcoming. His kind of rhetoric is more accepted than truth and honor in the good people who are trying to fix our broken party.

I won't forgive him for hurting our party and putting a damper on our celebration of the win last November. Some things are not likely to be forgotten