James Carville & Wife Plan Fundraiser for Scooter Libby Defense Fund

I have officially ceased defending James Carville.

Former Cheney aide plans pricey Libby bash Tuesday



John Byrne

Reception to be held at home of Democratic strategist

Conservative political strategist Mary Matalin will host a reception Tuesday night at her home in Alexandria to help augment the defense fund of indicted Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby according to an invitation read to RAW STORY.

Barbara Comstock, a spokesman for Libby's fund, declined to comment. No one answered the phone at the RSVP line. Libby has been indicted for obstruction of justice and other charges in connection with the CIA leak investigation.

Matalin is married to Democratic strategist James Carville and formerly worked in the Office of the Vice President. It is not known whether Carville will be present at the event. Matalin was also a member of the White House Iraq Group.

According to those familiar with the reception, a mailing for the event included some 17 co-hosts, each contributing $5,000. The co-hosts listed on the mailing include former Commerce Secretary Don Evans, former Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, Bush political media strategist Mark McKinnon, as well as former Congressman Bob Livingston, Ed Rogers, Rich Galen, David Kean and Bobby Birchfield.

Individual tickets are $500, according to the individual who read the invitation.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Matalin_Carville_plan_pricey_Libby_bash_0619.html

We jump from:

"James Carville & Wife Plan Fundraiser for Scooter Libby Defense Fund" (your subject line) to:

"Former Cheney aide plans pricey Libby bash Tuesday" to:

"Reception to be held at home of Democratic strategist" to:

"Conservative political strategist Mary Matalin will host a reception Tuesday night at her home".

Doesn't sound like Carville is part of the picture, much as you're trying to make him one.

I have often tried to separate that in my head, being a staunch Democrat who loved Carville's work for Bill Clinton in the War Room in 1992.

But this is unreal. I simply cannot understand how he can be married to someone that actively defends this administration.

You can dismiss it; I no longer can.

You know, like a sexual aid.

damn.

:puke:

But there's got to be some attraction between these two and it's got to be kinky. Logic and rhetoric bouncing off the walls?

Notice how they both have such prominent facial features. Their kids are going to be something else. I hope for the good.

In my view it is pure opportunists NOT to be trusted

Her defense of Ann Coulter is also unreal

Of course they can be married to each other, but I would prefer NOT to share Democratic strategy with either one

I'm stitching it on a pillow or stamping it on the front door or something. It should be on one of those money cards people give newlyweds!

I can easily see it. Here's what happens: they have lots of mutual friends in the press corps, they have other mutual interests, and they never, ever, ever talk about politics.

He's married to her, they live in the same house and it's known as THEIR home....HE DOES have the right to NIX a benefit dinner being held there for this particular criminal....

I never understood how he could be married to Matalin...but figured if he could handle the stress, and keep their political views separate, then more power to him....however, THIS makes him look the fool....

Guess we know who wears the pants in his family...and one thing's becoming apparent....it ain't HIM!!!...
windbreeze

I am married to a Bush supporter. When we married 25 years ago he was independent and very moderate in his views. As years went on he became more and more conservative. Otherwise he's been a wonderful husband and father. I have always been a Liberal. The only way we can keep our marriage together is by never discussing politics.
But, if he EVER held a Repug. fundraiser in our home, the marriage would be over.

matlin, carville's wife is also defending coulter and her slamming of the 9/11 widows, calling liberals traitors, saying that John Murtha should be shot

Either they have NO CONVICTIONS, or are in it ONLY for the money. Either way they are screwed.

They are pure opportunists...

What, Carville can't think for himself? Did their marriage vows require that he receive a brain transfusion? Maybe Carville is pissed as hell about this. Who knows...you certainly wouldn't from the story.

Highly unlikely. It's his house too. What is being hosted is a defense fund for a person who was involved in a TRAITOROUS ACT, THE OUTTING OF A CIA AGENT

I am tired of the DLC destroying the party, and if they haven't realized by now, the tide is turning, and their day in the sun is coming to an end. The party is going back to its roots, and there will be more challenges to incumbents like Lieberman, and other neocons who are part of the Democratic party.

The Washington political industry is thriving. Where else can two people as ugly as Matalin and Carville be celebrities and make over a million bucks a year? If you have the gift of gab and can't make it in Hollywood, become a political performer.

does anyone remember? This is the great lie that deceived the democrats in congress to vote for the IWR

This is why 2500+ Americans are dead. This is why over 18000 Americans are wounded, and this is why tens of thousands of Iraqiis are dead, because we attacked a country THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11

How immoral are we?

that's why I posted this.

and share your outrage and frustration.

these two can live together just fine because they are basically actors. if they truly believed what they were spewing half the time there is no way they could live with each other. these two are just one happy part of the big fat cat family in DC happily stirring up meaningless controversy while gathering a fat paycheck. real news doesn't pay like the crap they dish out does.

I guess skirt chasers are welcome as long as they are republican.

They each have made politics their bread and butter and can't ever go hungry because they're on (supposedly) completely different sides of the spectrum, thus covering both bases. Either they're just that able to separate themselves from their jobs orrrr we're the idiots for believing such a thing is possible orrrr politics really is just about the marketing. That would make them like...ad execs, PR people, super sales folk... In that light, yeah, I can see how it'd work...

Apropos of nothing here, I've heard Carville hedge on abortion and other 'centrist' issues but I've never heard Mary debate herself.

(Sorry, your sentence structure made that irresistible to me! Ignore me.)

You made a funny! :bounce: :rofl:

of what they say... my guess, it's Matalin. Or maybe both... if they both really believed in their viewpoints, they couldn't possibly live together this long. I believe that there are fundamental differences (more than policy) between repukes and dems, on our whole outlook toward life and people that inhabit this planet.

I have been married and there is no way I could not talk politics. Particularly now. We are down to the bread and butter of fundamental belief systems, the essence of wrong versus right.

I'd strangle the bitch in her sleep. But that's me. :)

not a feminist (I was VERY politically involved).

my response: "who would care? I wouldn't be married to him"

I have never understood HOW one could be married to someone who didn't share one's core values and beliefs--and the matalin/carville relationship is right at the top of that list.

you know, i remember how limp carville went on the night of 2004 election; it was called for bush and he actually slumped his shoulders -- completely giving up--like he just knew we'd lose!

i've been disgusted w/him ever since.

here's another good reason.

mary supports treasonists and james slumps along behind her

as gutless and ball-less as the Democratic electeds we criticize here daily.

How much more do we have to see of Carville's craven and cynical whoredom to finally, and for all time know this man either has no moral compass, or he is an outright traitor to this Party?

Before ANYONE here defends him on the grounds that they are married and they is their house, etc.... CONSIDER THIS: If Carville wanted to hold a fund-raiser for his favorite Democrat, Hillary Clinton, do you think for ONE STINKING MINUTE Mary Latalin would allow her name to be attached to it?

Okay, you say, that would be a POLITICAL Fundraiser, and this is for a legal Defense Fund, CONSIDER THIS: Did Mary Matalin EVER EVER EVER let her name be attached to a fundraiser for the Defense Fund for the Clintons while they were going through the gauntlet of Republican attack while Bill was in office? Damned straight! ------- SHE DID NOT.

I am done with Carville. I hope the rest of you are, too. This man needs to be SHUNNED! ANY Political campaign who uses him as a consultant should be suspect as well.

This is THE END.

TC

I saw it too and it specifically said that there was no information on whether or not James Carville would be in attendance. We have know from the beginning of this unholy and strange alliance that Matalin was a diehard republicans and Carville was a diehard democrat. He has never interferred with the things she has done during the administration. I suspect this has nothing whatsoever to do with James Carville

Matalin is married to Democratic strategist James Carville and formerly worked in the Office of the Vice President. It is not known whether Carville will be present at the event. Matalin was also a member of the White House Iraq Group.

He's married to her. The same woman that coddled Biotch Coulter.

That's the point.

Like I said, if you can dismiss that, have at. I no longer can.

I agree totally!

TC

This has been going on for YEARS. They have always maintained a separate identity in the public when it comes to their politicaly ideologies. I'm sure there are plenty of times that the Clintons were over at their household but just didn't grab headlines and exploited at DU (which didn't even exist during the Clinton administration.

I don't know how Carville can be married to that witch but their relationship has worked because they leave work out of their marriage. Carville has proven to me enough times that he does not support this administration. I'm not gonna toss another democrat out of our tent for a party that he probably didn't attend.

Your answer to anyone that disagrees with you is that they know nothing about the subject matter. Do you have trouble entering a room with the size of your ego?

You go right ahead and think whatever you like. The difference is I would never impugn your intelligence because you have a different opinion. It's a cheap shot and a poor substitute for a substantive argument.

We are thinking human beings and entitled to draw a line in the sand. This is mine. You've registered your disagreement. Now move along.

You know that there's no possible way you KNOW that to be true, right?

For all we know, they agree. Or neither believes what they're pushing. Or one is a mole. Or...

I mean, YOU don't know any more than WE do.

WAS THERE EVER A FUNDRAISER FOR THE CLINTONS AT HIS HOME, even without Mary in attendance????????

NO.

End of story.

TC

You know, you're right - I should be listening to you and AK. I'm a dimwit. We'll throw out of our party every democrat married to a republican because damnit - we need purity in our party.

Anyone else you want tossed out of the democratic tent? If we let people like you and AK control this party and who can be a member we will be doomed to republican majority forever.

This has been going on for over a decade with these two. If you haven't figured this out then you probably haven't followed that much politics

Matalin and her Republican allies... The Clintons had a Defense Fund, and you would NEVER have seen a fundraiser at Mary and James' home for them... even if Mary was NOT going to be present.

Matalin even attacked the Clintons repeatedly on tv show after tv show for trying to raise $$$ for their legal bills. WHAT IS SO HARD TO SEE ABOUT THAT?

We need to stop making excuses for those who lead the Democratic Party AS WELL AS those who seek to advise them.

TC

First- do you know that?

And second, perhaps because of the number of people who would be interested in attending such an event for the Clintons that they needed a bigger venue than the Matalin/Carville home.

I'm sick and tired of this fricking party purity because it will be what will destroyed us. I'm about as phased about this as I am a papercut. I'll take notice and be irritated for about a whole minute and then I'll totally forget about it because IT'S JUST NOT THAT IMPORTANT.

This kind of knee-jerk reactionary ideology I find on the internets from supposively progressive thinkers is why I feel our party is doomed. We have senators introducting legislation to hopefully get a timeline and pullout date commitment for Iraq and THIS is your biggest worry in life?

Period. Nothing to get over, only to get wise from.

TC

because the most important thing that matters is what these two do. Everything else is just junk clogging the internet.

Where are your priorities? On a political scale of 1 (not that important) to 100 (top issue) this comes in around a -6. The only reason I'm reply is to keep people from doing their ADHD knee-jerk reaction WHICH keeps us from focusing on what is really important today.

Where is your fight to get the Senate to support Feingold/Kerry with the legislation being introduced to get our troops out? On that same political scale of 1-100, this rates about 2,747,345 on my scale!

I know where my priorities are, and am very active in their advocacy.

Why are you so hostile to me when you know nothing about me or how hard I fight for anything, or how close your priorities may be to mine and visa versa? I don't think having an opinion contrary to yours warrants a personal attack. I said nothing personal at all to you or about you, Lynn, so I expect the same respect in return.

My priorities are mine, and I will suppoort them and advocate for them as I see fit, whether or not you agree with my stances on single subjects. Thank you.

TC

which has been going on for years between these two and yet Carville is still one of our biggest advocates out there. This is who these two are and yet people are ready to toss Carville out on his political ass, which is such a dumbass idea.

You're the one that keeps telling me to "ignore this at my own peril". What peril? How will our party demise because James Carville's wife, a known Bush supporter and employee holds a fundraiser? It's a papercut not a massive hemorrhage here. As for holding it at their home - well, it would save alot of money and I'm guessing there probably wasn't that many people in attendance. That's not HIS home - it's their home and she has the rights to do these things.

And my post is for all the viewers of this thread to put things into perspective and not jump on this knee-jerk reactionary "Toss them out of the party" mentality that our website as a collective seems to get.

You keep replying and making it seem our party is in danger because of this. I'm not sure how - hell the two made a TV show on HBO and we saw just exactly what goes on between those two. This thread is a deception from the the beginning when the OP made it practically sound like Carville was in cahoots with Matalin

And, YES, I do see this as a problem, and have for years... MOSTLY SINCE I SAW THAT TV SHOW OF THEIRS. I believe that out Party has trusted him and people like him FAR TOO MUCH, and continue to AT OUR OWN PERIL.

But, I will argue this no further with you. Again, we are on the same side, so Peace Out. I am backing off, but not backing down.

TC

Your cavalier nonchalance about this - not being fazed by it - isn't surprising, but I grant that you're right about one thing: it's not that big a deal.

Why?

Because Carville, and his DLCesque cronies (like your boy Biden), are long past irrelevant.

That needs to be replaced. The netroots are a nuisance to people like them. They just want you to click on the link in their emails to donate and STFU. That's it. Give ME (the expert) money, show up on the first Tuesday in November to vote for my candidate, and STFU. Fuck him. I could care less whether he is there or not. He's a self-fellating windbag. I never voted for him to be my spokesperson.

:-)

And no matter who is in power, one of these two has a front-row seat.

I see no problem in their relationship at all.

Ror anyone that believes these two have convictions, I am afraid that your trust might not be well-placed.

Granted that would seem a Herculean task given their jobs but hey strange bedfellows and all that jazz.

See, we're not all "far left fringe nutjobs". Sometimes we actually know what we're talking about.

and not just assimilate the opinion of those around us. An opinion forged in thoughtful consideration is one that should be respected. I think we each draw a line in the sand and that point is different for each of us. Brow-beating others never has its intended effect. I advocate patience for those on the journey and for those who've already arrived. :)

I'm just annoyed that people aren't as cynical as I am.

:D

:)

Because I'd know we'd be going in a better direction!

:think:

Is Carville is a pampered establishment blowhard who's cut off from the roots of our party? Arguably. Does HUAC-style assignment of guilt based on who he has over to his house make that case in a compelling way? I don't think so.

This is a marriage...apparently a happy one. If one partner starts arbitrarily restricting the activities of rthe other based on political views, the marriage would wither and die.

I do not believe Carville thinks Scooter Libby is innocent, and the article makes clear that they have no idea whether he will even be there.

Politics have transcended polite repartee. It's a blood sport now. I would not allow those low-life bastards even in the vicinity of my home, and can't even fathom being married to someone who would.

But, again, that's me. :)

It's worth it's weight in GOLD!

You rawk, AtomicKitten!

Kickin' ass and takin' names!

And, yeah, she does rawk!

Here's to everyone's individual lines in the sand!...

TC

He isn't hosting that fundraiser as the text you quoted makes clear.