Reply #56: This is a really dumb line of attack [View All]

[liberalpragmatist]

Carville's comments about Dean are regrettable and if you want to rake him over the coals for that, go right ahead.

But he's done plenty right throughout his years in politics and his advice isn't always bad.

Moreover, this is a very intellectually-dishonest point of attack.

Zell Miller in 2000 was a perfectly mainstream, moderate-progressive governor. He was extremely popular in Georgia, and popular with national Democrats as well.

He became a lot more conservative after coming to the Senate and he completely went off the deep-end after 2002. But he wasn't always a right-wing nutjob. The irony was he kept claiming in 2004 that the Democratic Party left him, when in actuality, HE was one the one who abruptly switched all his positions on the issues and became a radical right-winger. He even went from pro-choice to pro-life, claiming ludicrously that the birth of his GREAT-grandchild made him appreciate the sanctity of life. And he even renounced his admirable battle to remove the confederate flag from the Georgia flag in 1994.

As for Carville, when Zell endorsed Bush, Carville very publicly denounced him and asked for his $1000 check back from Zell's 2000 campaign.