Carville is hilarious

James Carville is as partisan as they get until an election but, once the election is over, he is brutally honest and, in the process, often hilarious. In 2002, he put a garbage can on his head on election night as it became clear that the Republicans were going to make gains in Congress. Today, he cracked an egg on his head on Meet the Press to acknowledge that he has egg on his face for predicting that John Kerry would be elected with 52% of the vote.

Since the election, Carville has also said this about the situation for Democrats nationally.

"We can deny this crap, but I'm out of the denial. I'm about reality here," Mr. Carville told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. "We are an opposition party, and as of right now, not a particularly effective one. You can't deny reality here."

I think that Carville's "reality" will sink in more broadly within the Democratic party in the next few months. The real issue is how the Democrats, as a party, will respond. It seems to me that making Howard Dean the new party chairman would not be a good start.


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