Liberals Fighting With Each Other Now!
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003 11:02 a.m. EST
Carville: Gore Looks Like 'a Corpse'
Former Clinton war room capo James Carville is trashing ex-Vice
President Al Gore's decision this week to endorse Howard Dean, saying
that Gore looked like "a corpse" at Tuesday's announcement ceremony in
Harlem.
"It was the perfect picture of a doctor and a corpse standing there,"
Carville told radio host Don Imus Thursday morning.
The Clinton hit man also derided Dean's decision to bring Gore to
Harlem in a bid to appeal to African-Americans, saying Gore could
never compete with his old boss.
"I don't think Al Gore should even get in the same ring with Bill
Clinton when it comes to trying to impress black voters," Carville
advised.
The DemocRATic strategist openly boasted that the Vermont DemocRAT's
presidential bid was doomed, recounting a conversation he had with one
top Dean aide.
"I told Steve McMahon, the media guy for Dean, who was on 'Crossfire':
You have one of the three most influential presidential campaigns of
my lifetime. That's the good news. The bad news is the other two are
McGovern and Goldwater."
Carville predicted that Gore would run for president himself in 2008,
but wouldn't stand a chance against Hillary Clinton. "It would be a
titanic struggle but it would be more of a personal struggle as
opposed to an
ideological struggle," he explained.
"My sense is, if it came down to that, it wouldn't be very close," he
told Imus.
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