Who the hell is Pat Caddell???

[blueblitzkrieg]

And why does this 'Democratic strategist' got such a boner for criticizing and slamming the Kerry campaign?

He's on O'Reilly, so I don't expect a whole lot, but still....Jesus Christ.

[PSU84]

1. Used to work for Jimmy Carter eom

[Reciprocity]

14. So did Tweedy and his a total repug too. n/t

[featherman]

2. Used to be "Democratic pollster" now full time lunatic

permanently angry and crazier than Christopher Hitchens... well maybe that's a toss up.

[blueblitzkrieg]

3. He sucks!

And he seems like he really hates Kerry. No wonder every time I click on Faux (not that often, mind you) his nasty mug is there speaking for the Democrats. Faux must think they hit the jackpot with him.

[TomNickell]

4. Jimmy Carter's pollster...

if I remember right.

Don't know what happened to him. He apparently got back into the Big Time bashing Clinton.

[DURHAM D]

18. Most recent gig was adviser on The West Wing - but then

so was Peggy Nooooooooooonan.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

5. Miserable misanthropic traitorous cocksucker.

He's doing his best to suck O'Reilly's dick but O'Reilly
keeps yanking it out of his mouth.

[DougieZero]

6. Yeah

I just wrote down his name so I could rag on him here... You beat me to it. I always thought you guys exaggerated about Fox News' bias, but man were they peeved today. The host from DaySide earlier today was like:

"But Kerry LIED about the SUBWAYS!!!"

I like the official Fox News spin... Kerry won on style... but Bush was the misunderstood genius.

[cali]

7. I can answer that

I knew Caddell years ago in Cambridge. He was a moon faced self-important prat, and so enamoured with his own intellect that the urge to kick him afflicted many who came to know him.

[Nimble_Idea]

11. lol

yeah a complete loser, Caddell really has something missing...
But hey...he's getting paid by FAUX....so you know..

[Carni]

17. That must explain the drooling and the lazy eye

You guys shouldn't have kicked Pat in the head so often lol

[geek tragedy]

8. DINO

He bashed the hell out of Gore in 2000. Think Zell Miller without the charm.

[no name no slogan]

9. Caddell revolutionized political polling in the 70s

Caddell basically revolutionized electoral polling in the 1970s, while still in his early 20s. He was McGovern's pollster, and is one of the people largely credited with getting McG the nom in 1972. His amazingly accurate polling during the primaries helped McG focus on the races he could win-- and not spend as much time on the losers.

He's worked for many others since then: Carter, Gary Hart and even Clinton IIRC. The man has put in his dues as not only a credible political analyst, but as a Democrat, too.

If any "Democratic Strategist" has a right to criticize a presidential campaign, it's Caddell.

Pat is voicing much of the frustration many of us have felt with the Kerry campaign since last summer: the lightweight platform, the ambiguity on Iraq, the lack of definition. Although Kerry's come along nicely since then, there's still a lot of us who are still ABB and not yet completely "pro-Kerry".

Caddell (like me) will vote for Kerry, but he still has major disagreements on strategy and policy with him, and will not hesitate to voice his opinion.

Besides, I thought this party was a "big tent"? :shrug:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. Did you see the show?

He wasn't "criticizing" the Kerry campaign.
He was saying that Bush won the debate, and with
such relish & drool that even O'Reilly was disgusted
with his Faux sycophancy.

[Barney Rocks]

42. Did I see a different

show? :shrug:

I saw Pat Caddell say that Kerry did what he had to do and that Bush did NOT do what he had to do. Pat also estimated that Bush's lead would be cut in half in all the major polls. He did criticize both Bush and Kerry for things he thought could have been done differently-and in that part he criticized both of them brutally.

[geek tragedy]

13. Zell Miller paid his dues too.

They're both DINOs and Bush lovers. Neither can be accurately described as a Democrat. Caddell is more of a partisan Republican than Tucker Carlson.

[Nimble_Idea]

15. Even Oreichly didn't buy the crap caddell was spewing

Thats pretty pathetic when Oreichly is more objective than this bitter cyntz.

[DURHAM D]

16. Is that you Pat ?

[Nimble_Idea]

19. LOL

yeah pat...get a real job

[Carni]

22. Pat could wear a big tent

But I can do without him.

This is 2004 and I really don't care what that talk out of his ass loser did in the 70's.

He certainly didn't do Carter or McGovern any favors.

[RetroLounge]

26. And how did things work out for McGovern?

Who gives a fuck what this DINO piece of shit did in the 70's.

This is 2004. What has he done for us lately?

Bupkiss...

RL

[Reciprocity]

27. Some clarification would be appreciated.

"If any "Democratic Strategist" has a right to criticize a presidential campaign, it's Caddell."

I find him to be a little sniveling snotnose, who's mouth and sphincter are interchangeable.

[Julien Sorel]

29. There's no room in a "big tent" for people who want to burn it down.

Caddell is also singlehandedly responsible for Carter's hideous "malaise" speech, which he pushed and pushed for, even going over Mondale's head, who advised against it because he sensed what it would become.

Caddell hated Clinton. Caddell hated Gore. Caddell hates Kerry. Caddell plays quisling on an anti-Democratic news station. Get yourself a pup tent, and you and Caddell can make perfect liberal music together. If you work at it, you can squeeze Nadir in there too and form a trio. :shrug:

[no name no slogan]

31. Riiiiight. And who appointed you 'membership chairman'?

Or maybe the circular firing squad is enough? :shrug:

SFW if Caddell hated Clinton, AND Gore. Both of them were mushball appoligists who talked a good line, but sold the Dems out to the Repubs whenever they got the chance. And despite the Kerry-Worship around here, not every Democrat is that enthusiastic about him, either. We're on board because we know Dubya is the worst president in 70 years.

Sorry, but as a Democratic president, Clinton was a dismal failure. Gore ran such a horseshit campaign that he lost to a certifiable moron who's entire experience was running successful companies (and states) into the ground.

Sorry, but Caddell is hardly the only Democrat who thinks Clinton and Gore sucked.

[Carni]

39. Just vote for Nader

and STFU this drivel is getting tiresome on night 2.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

41. It's Nad(ir) Not Nader...

Fuck Nad(i)r and the four million dollar portfolio he rode in on....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

40. Fuck Pat Cadell

He's a Fifth Columinist who has lived on accomplishments from a generation ago...


I wouldn't piss down his throat if his heart was on fire...

[The Chronicler]

32. He was comparing Bush to Reagan, and Kerry to Mondale.

John Kasich (an actual former republican congressman) wasn't even agreeing with him.

[Zen Democrat]

36. This guy has done nothing but bash Clinton, Gore and Kerry.

Misunderstood? I don't think so.

He's about as much a democrat as Dick Morris. They both suck hard.

[Barney Rocks]

43. I don't think

Dick the toe sucker Morris has ever claimed to be a republican has he? I thought he was well-known as a republican (Clinton used him on the team because he knew how the republicans operate).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. Is He The Polling Maven Who Told Coke To Change His Formula?

[Carni]

12. Oh man THAT guy...what a GOON!

He was one of softball's fave guests (Chrissy Mathews) leading up to selection 2000.

He is an insidious, weird assed, looking individual.

He bills himself as a Democratic pollster.

I literally watched him frothing at the mouth and drooling one time as he was bemoaning how inadequate Al Gore was.

[Doosh]

20. Pat Caddell is sasquatch

[gauguin57]

21. Cadell's a public opinion pollster ...

... who worked for McGovern in '72 and Carter in '76.

He has also been a consultant, producer and writer for "The West Wing" TV series.

And he's interviewed on news shows and pundit shows all the time -- he always seems very angry about something.

[geek tragedy]

23. Pat Caddell's greatest hits.

The CBS memos mean that the election is over.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/9/10/130050.shtml

The Democratic party is run by gangsters.
http://jskelly.squarespace.com/blog/2004/9/15/pat-caddell-democratic-party-run-by-crypto-gangsters.html

Janet Reno and Bill Clinton had a corrupt deal in place.
http://www.dailyhowler.com/h092099_1.shtml

The Pat Caddell drinking game.
http://www.mediawhoresonline.com/hiball.htm

Combine that with the fact that he looks like Evil Spock, and you've got the Freepers' 2nd favorite Democrat (behind Zell).

[George W. Dunce]

24. He's a repugnant man who has a problem

keeping snots out of his beard and mustache. He makes me sick. Yucky

[GingerSnaps]

25. The man with the rug on his head?

:shrug:

[Thrill]

28. Is that the Fat ass guy

thats always humped over? He's no damn Democratic strategist. He's been doing nothing but ripping Dems since the 2000 election.

[Awsi Dooger]

30. For all the deserved criticism of Chris Matthews

At least we were spared the pompous pairing of Pat Cadell and Peggy Noonan last night.

Cadell rejected any semblance of competence years ago. I have a dozen tapes from election 2000. Cadell actually denied Gore was hurt by those butterfly and multipage ballots in Palm Beach and Duval.

He was frothing whenever the Broward County election commisioners ruled a punch card as a vote for Gore, even if it was a 3-0 vote. One segment busts me up in particular. I keep the tape rewound to the exact point. "Those 500 votes in Broward have no business being there! This is theft, I'm telling you! In all my years in politics, Chris, I have never seen such...I can't even...this is never going to stand up! Does the world understand what's going on here?"

[redstateblues]

45. Bitter That The Dems Stopped Using His Polling Outfit

[The Chronicler]

33. Actually, I think he was pro-Dean.

He seemed to be real bitter when Dean started to tank.

[DemFromMem]

34. He's a Dick Morris Democrat

Basically, a DINO - Democrat in Name Only. Talk shows love him because he's a sort-of Democrat who loves to criticize the Democrats. They love the self-hating Democrat and Caddell is certainly one of them. Why anyone thinks he has anything worth saying is beyond me. I doubt very much he's an insider anymore after how he treated Gore in the 2000 post-election debacle.

[MissouriTeacher]

35. That's the guy...

I saw on O'Reilly who said the only news source he could trust was O'Reilly's show.

A "Democrat" who bashes Kerry and praises O'Reilly, if Fox News were Playboy, Caddell would be the Playmate of the Year.

[ReadTomPaine]

37. Who the hell is Pat Caddell. A poem.

Who the Hell
Is Pat Caddell?
He's the DINO who tells
that Kerry really smells
and the words Pat sells
while his hands are shifting shells
will make his retirement swell
while Democracy fell.

RTP

[jezebel]

44. Satan. NT

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