LARRY KING: What is your role, Jim? Are you involved in this campaign?
JAMES CARVILLE: I am friendly with the campaign. I give them advice, like today, I'd be glad to share the advice I gave.
I said look, Senator Obama is coming after y'all, he was bragging today he comes from the rough and tumble of Chicago politics. And I said: "be ready, he put you on notice. This hope stuff, forget about that, he's coming after it. I understand he's been hit. And he's like any politician that's been hit, you know, it's a hit dog that barks, and we're going to see a lot of barking from Senator Obama." And the Clinton people better batten down, because David
and people like that who grew up in Chicago politics, they know the rough and tumble of politics, and they know how to do this, and Senator Obama today put them on notice and I hope they take that notice seriously.
KING: Are you therefore a non-paid consultant?
CARVILLE: Yes, I don't make it. I haven't taken a nickel in any domestic political consulting since 1994. But I'm friendly with them, but I'm friendly with David too, but --
KING: Is James Carville right? Is your candidate now slugging?
DAVID AXELROD: Of course not. If there was barking dogs in New Hampshire, Larry, they were barking over in the Clinton camp. I mean, President Clinton and others were out there pounding away. Look, I understand that that's a tactic, and James is the best in the business. I feel like we must be making progress if they drag the Hall of Famers out to talk for them on the air.The transcript part is from News Busters. I don't link to them.
Looks like Carville is at least unofficially working with that campaign. He wrote her a memo as well to come out fighting.
Mr. Carville declined to provide a copy of the memo tonight, but several advisers who had read the memo said that it did not recommend any surprising changes in strategy. They said Mr. Carville did not suggest skipping any key state nominating contests, such as Nevada and South Carolina, but these advisers added that no final decisions have been made about the game plan in those states.
...."If the president said to me, ‘look old pal, we really need you to come on board, he and I and the senator would have that conversation,’” Mr. Carville said. “But I haven’t had a single conversation with anyone in the campaign about coming in and working in a formal way on the campaign.”
I don't like to know that her campaign is still so cozy with him. He made a lot of us angry when he said Dean should be dumped and replaced with Harold Ford....right after we won the election.
Carville said silence is eloquent, said the Clintons did not tell him not to attack DeanWhat about the Clintons, who, given Hillary’s presidential ambitions, have more cause for concern about who runs the DNC in 2008? “Let’s just say nobody has called me telling me this is a bad idea. Sometimes silence is eloquence.” Not only did Carville’s coup fail but it arguably strengthened Dean, who, speaking before his state-party allies, mocked the attempt as a desperate attack from the “old Democratic Party.” Cutting his losses, Rahm quickly leaked word to the press that he and Dean had negotiated a truce.
I don't like it at all.
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