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• Friday, November 10, 2006 01:26 PM

  Dean gives us a new slogan, and Carville is pissed--

  It was so easy to fix, really, just replace "economy" with "people," and we have the new slogan for Democrats, not Carville's "It's the economy, stupid," but Dean's "It's the PEOPLE, stupid." Too bad Carville is too worried about where his personal income will come from after Matalin is out of a job to realize that. Dean appeared on The Daily Show the day after the election so that Jon Stewart could apologize to him for having doubts about the 50-state strategy and grass roots organization. Terry McAuliffe, who helped lose it for the Dems in 2004 by following the advice of "centrists" like Carville, appeared on "Hardball," no doubt because Dean was busy taping the Daily Show. Dean seems to know where the "people" are; he even thanked the Stewart audience for helping the Democrats win.

  Anyone who is really astute knows that Howard Dean and the reinvigorated DNC turned around plenty of rural votes in Indiana and elsewhere that cinched a Dem takeover in the House. Anyone who really follows politics knows that many netroots organizations supported Dean and the DNC in Montana and Virginia to pull those states in for the Senate. Joe Conason is right. Carville is not only wrong, he is stuck in his old slogan: "It's the economy, stupid," but it's Carville's personal economy, not the nation's, that he is now crying about. Get a job, James. Harold Ford is a grownup. He can take care of himself.

  —Marty Carpenter Read Marty Carpenter's other letters
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