Smokin’ The Good Stuff

by digby

Yesterday on The Situation Room, JC Watts insisted that the Democrats are just as unhappy with their candidates as Republicans are:

WATTS: Wolf, this is typical primary politics, I think on the Republican and Democrat side.

I can say the same thing for a Democratic candidate. But it doesn’t mean that the Democrats are not going to be united when they get a candidate.

(CROSSTALK)

WATTS: And I — and I think the Republicans are going to be the same way. We’re…

CARVILLE: But, J.C., I’m saying something different.

WATTS: We’re going to…

CARVILLE: Democrats are satisfied, by and — by and large, are satisfied with their choices. Republicans are dissatisfied with their choices.

WATTS: Well, I — I think you probably would find the same dissatisfaction on both sides, because, you know, you’re always going to find about 20, 25 percent of the electorate on either side is going to be unhappy, regardless of who you have in the race.

I guess he was tippling that morning with Andrea Mitchell, because he was just as wrong as she was when she insisted later that a majority of people want Scooter Libby pardoned. When in doubt, repeat what you overheard in the powder room at Fred Hiatt’s house, I guess.

It is really incomprehensible to these people that Republicans are unpopular or are at each other’s throats. They are still the “grown-ups” as far as DC is concerned, while the grubby American public are all a bunch of wild-eyed revolutionaries who just don’t get it.

And speaking of living in an alternate universe, check out what Carville said in the same segment:

CARVILLE: And — and I also think that there’s a good chance that the Republican nominee is not even in the race yet.

(CROSSTALK)

BLITZER: So, give me some names.

CARVILLE: Jeb Bush. He’s — he’s the only person I know who could unify the Republican Party.

Carville really needs to stop listening his wife (or sharing the bottle with Watts and Mitchell.) She is practically the last fan of the Bush family in the entire country, having been their glorified servant for most of the last two decades. Even Republicans (other than Mary Matalin and Fred Barnes) would rather stick kabab skewers in their eyes than have another Bush for president. These people are more out of touch than I realized.

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