{"id":1278,"date":"2004-02-10T14:18:49","date_gmt":"2004-02-10T21:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2004-02-10T14:18:49","modified_gmt":"2004-02-10T21:18:49","slug":"james-carville-on-zell-miller-on-the-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2004\/02\/10\/james-carville-on-zell-miller-on-the-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"James Carville on Zell Miller on the Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>As a rule, avoid Crossfire<\/i>. Not much of substance ever comes out of the cross-current debates, and there isn’t a whole lot of surprises that are going to come out of the mouth of Carville, Carlson, Novak, or that other guy. (All apologies to “that other guy”, but I can’t think of his name.)<\/p>\n

But, here’s<\/a> a good exchange from last November anyway, where James Carville does<\/i> hit on something:<\/p>\n

CARLSON: I understand that. But I want to put up, actually, an astute observation about your party from one of its own members, Senator Zell Miller, still a Democrat, of Georgia. Here’s what he wrote yesterday in the “Wall Street Journal”. And I’d be interested to know what you think of this.<\/p>\n

And I’m quoting, “I find it hard to believe, but these naive nine” — the nine presidential candidates on your side — “have managed to combine the worst feature of the McGovern campaign — the president is a liar and we must have peace at any cost — with the worst feature of the Mondale campaign — watch your wallet, we’re going to raise your taxes.”<\/p>\n

Losers, says Zell Miller. You can’t write him off as a right wing whacko, can you? <\/p>\n

….<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Can I put that quote back up there, please? Can we do that? We have the technical ability to put it back up? Because I think there’s something interesting on there. <\/p>\n

The McGovern campaign, worst feature, calling Richard Nixon a liar. Now where would someone get that idea from, that Richard Nixon is a liar? <\/p>\n

I tell you what, I bet you that Bush has lied more in a month than Nixon lied in his entire lifetime. <\/p>\n

JACOBUS: That’s a bet that you’d lose, James. <\/p>\n

CARVILLE: Why would anybody get the idea that Dick Nixon was a liar? <\/i><\/p>\n

……….<\/p>\n

Senator Zell Miller, DINO and conservative Democrat (beyond “conservative Democrat”, but never mind) of Georgia, retiring this year. If you look at the AP totals<\/a> of delegates, you’ll see that “Other” has one delegate pledged to them. This is a “superdelegate” (to give more weight to the insiders after McGovern and Carter, the Democrats vetted the process by giving their Congressional Caucuss votes — so that they could nominate Walter Mondale, I … guess<\/i>). This is Zell Miller’s vote. He’s voting for George W. Bush in the Democratic Primary.<\/p>\n

More on Zell Miller in a later post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a rule, avoid Crossfire. Not much of substance ever comes out of the cross-current debates, and there isn’t a whole lot of surprises that are going to come out of the mouth of Carville, Carlson, Novak, or that other guy. (All apologies to “that other guy”, but I can’t think of his name.) But, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-regurgitates-forward","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}