NTodd: Dean is unimpressed and Carville is full of it. Hotline: "There’s realistically only four – certainly no more than six seats – that perhaps could have been won with extra cash. Extra money could have made a small difference, but certainly not to the degree that Carville has been suggesting. Dean may have made strategic blunders in the past, but his fiscal responsibility here seems like the wiser course."
But Carville, Dean's strategy worked! "It was a great win for what I call the new Democratic Party," Dean said in a speech to the Association of State Democratic Chairs. "This is the new Democratic Party. The old Democratic Party is back there in Washington, sometimes they still complain a little bit."
In recent days, political strategist James Carville, best known for his work on Bill Clinton's campaign in 1992, has assailed Dean, saying he left too much money in the bank that could have been used to seize an even larger Democratic majority in Congress.
In one interview, Carville called Dean's errors "Rumsfeldian," a reference to the Defense secretary. In the past, Rumsfeld has railed about "Old Europe" and its reticence in the leadup to the Iraq war.
"The people who complain always get the headlines," Dean said, adding there are other high-profile Democrats who support his initiative. "But the fact is that this strategy not only works, it works in states Democrats have given up on for 30 years.
"We cannot give up on anybody."
And Carville, people really really like Howard Dean. Why don't you?
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