Reply #34: Hillary to have dinner with Carville, Begala, and others tonight...Hotline. [View All]

[madfloridian]

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com:80/archives/2006/12/clinton_dines_w.html

"Sen. Hillary Clinton has dinner with tonight with several of her husband’s top political advisers – James Carville, Paul Begala, Joel Johnson and Joe Lockhart.

All four have substantial presidential campaign experience, and none will play a formal role in the campaign." (IMHO A formal role would be better than a role which has them using their TV positions to bash other candidates...as they did on Crossfire before it was cancelled. Formal is better than behind the scenes..nothing here...look over there stuff.)

..."Carville was the senior consultant on Clinton’s 1992 campaign; he was a close adviser through the Clinton presidency. He leveraged his celebrity into a Hollywood career, a CNN gig, numerous teaching engagements, popular books, overseas consulting for international presidential candidates, and even a restaurant. Democrats sought his advice and feared the sting of his rebukes.

In the late summer of 2004, he pressured John Kerry to shake up his campaign. Within weeks, Johnson and Lockhart, by then wildly successful lobbyists and consultants, were asked to retool Kerry’s public image. Democrats debate today whether their intervention worked."