James Carville speaks his mind

And I love it -- from Rat's Right:

James Carville Says 80% Of Democrats Are Politically Clueless
James Carville, Democrat political consultant extraordinaire � and former Bill Clinton campaign manager, has astonishingly come out and said what all good Republicans have known for decades: Not only are most Democrats politically clueless; they�re easily manipulated by the puppet masters of their party as well. Wow. James Freaking Carville. Of all people. Here�s an excerpt, as quoted on Amazon.com:

�Ideologies aren�t all that important. What�s important is psychology.

The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That�s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.

Eighty percent of the people who call themselves Democrats don�t have a clue as to political reality.

What amazes me is that you could take a group of people who are hard workers and convince them that they should support social programs that were the exact opposite of their own personal convictions. Put a little fear here and there and you can get people to vote any way you want.

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn�t have a clue than there were Republicans.

Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you�re smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That�s why I�m a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.�

Bingo. I couldn�t have written that for ol� James any better myself. Truth be told, I�ve always had kind of a love-hate relationship with Carville. While I�ve never agreed with him on much of anything � unless he was commenting on the failures of his party, which unlike most political operatives, he�s not been afraid to do through the years � this is different. This amounts to a total confession of what I define in the right sidebar of this blog as the quintessential �political lie�:

Liberals saying things they know aren�t true for the sole purpose of exploiting the �less-than-informed� for political gain.
Bravo, James � and thanks for the validation.

And a big tip 'o the hat to Cajun at Mostly Cajun for the link.