I kind of admire James Carville’s loyalty in a way, but I have a problem with a guy who writes letters of recommendation for Scooter Libby explaining the merits of stickin’ with his friends. There’s well deserved loyalty and then there is inexplicable loyalty. For a man whose wife worked in Dick Cheney’s office to deign to explain principle to the rest of we peons is more than a little too rich.
Perhaps no couple is more vested in the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton dynasty than the Matalin-Carvilles. That’s not loyalty to any principle. It’s just loyalty to power. And it’s precisely that four-headed dynasty that has governed this country so poorly over the last 16 years that we find ourselves stuck in the morass of Iraq, with few friends and less good will.
Carville can call Bill Richardson a Judas if he wants. But we can all think less of him for doing so.