James Carville: Trouble = Being a Democrat
By J. Grant Swank Jr. (10/09/05)
Being a Dem is trouble. So says Dem James Carville, political humorist, consultant and smart-man on panels.
That’s something for Carville to admit for he’s been in the forefront of Dem doings for a long, long time. And Dems have relied on his expertise for a long, long time. Therefore, for an absolutely committed Dem to scold his own equals insight major.
But he did. And he did it in front of an audience. Carville was speaking at Northwestern College when he blabbed on his own, according to writer Elizabeth Gibson of The Daily Northwestern.
Dem criticizes Dem speeches. He says that the Dem campaign monologue gets to be sheer "litany" and nothing more.
America is not so dumb as to fall for that. Carville says that there needs to be more "narrative." And by that, what does the language expert mean? He means that Dem candidates must spruce up their telling and quit yelling at their listeners.
They’ve got to tone down rather than ranting, emotionally unstrung from the lip. That is, Carville pitches that Dem candidates have to come around to relating "stories with the three elements of any good story — setup, conflict and resolution."
Of course, the rest of us know that the "resolution" part for Dems is quite an accomplishment if they could bring it off. But they don’t seem to be able to do that little number. Therefore, they continue to scream at the crowds, rouse up the lectures and leave their audience with gripe gripe gripe.
Carville says that Dems, in short, have to come across with more YES than NO. They are now known for their abilities to destroy everything but they have to get on the wagon for constructing a nation. That appears to be their illness. They can’t seem to bring off goodwill.
Naturally, we Republicans have realized that for a very long time. That’s why we stood in long lines last November and thus became the Red States phenomenon.
Carville also warns Dem speakers not to climb down notches so as to leave America with nothing but "Kumbayah crap." Well said, Carville. Of course, one can always count on speech-enthraller Carville coming through with his especially unique phrasing.
It was Carville who aided former US President Bill Clinton into the Oval Office in 1992. He’s also co-hosted CNN’s "Crossfire" and worked on various foreign campaigns. "Crossfire" was cancelled by the network in June.
Carville warns his Dem candidates from leaning too much on "a laundry list of special interests." They have to come up with a campaign that can succeed, he says. Of course, that is the reason for running for any office, isn’t it?
"’If you’re not competent in campaigns, you don’t have a chance to be competent in government,’ he said.
Carville accented more and more that Dems simply cannot hope to win an election by reiterating their negatives. They are against this and that and this and that. All of us are laden enough with trials daily that we don’t need a potential leader telling us emphatically — holler style — that everything in the country is wrong.
We Republicans have realized that weakness in the Dems, surely so. That is why we have more pity for them than applause. They simply don’t connect, except to kill off everything they touch.
Dems kill off womb babies, traditional definitions of family, marriage and sex. They kill off masculinity and femininity. They kill of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and all the morality attended to that history. They kill off freedom spread around the globe with their constant despair. And they kill off their chances to be known as patriots by supporting Muslim murderers global via the likes of Cindy Sheehan.
Who in a right mind then would want to be a Dem?
That’s why we can sympathize with Carville when he stated to the college students: "Sometimes the problem with being a Democrat is being a Democrat."
True.
Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.
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