Carville/Greenberg strategists and national security
By Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
Earlier this week, a new poll and accompanying "strategic analysis" was released by Democracy Corps (the Democratic firm founded by James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Bob Shrum), co-sponsored by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner ("GQR") and the "centrist" Third Way. It spat out decades-old, warmed-over, fear-driven conventional wisdom: Democrats are in danger of being seen as Weak on National Security and Terrorism, etc. etc., and specifically warned of the dangers from abandoning Bush/Cheney Terrorism policies (while suggesting ways for Democrats to appear Strong when they do). In response, Andrew Sullivan rightly urged caution about taking seriously any such analysis from this inside-Washington, "centrist"-Democratic faction, because -- as he put it -- "they always, always reeked of fear"; have been dominated by a "refusal to stand up against the Cheneyite right on critical matters such as national security and American values"; and "very few represent that kind of politics more than Jim Carville, Stan Greenberg and, yes, Rahm Emanuel, still traumatized after all these years."
Today, Jeremy Rosner of GQR wrote an email strenuously objecting to Sullivan's claims ("I have never, ever believed or advised that Democrats should 'cede national security' to the Republicans, and neither has my partner Stan Greenberg, or my friends James Carville and Rahm Emanuel"). He quotes from several memos issued by that faction -- mostly from 2006-2009 -- urging Democrats to exploit various national security weaknesses of Bush and the GOP, along with one from late 2003. Obviously -- as support for the Iraq War crumbled and the public began doubting the GOP 's national security approach -- these strategists advised Democrats to exploit that change in public opinion (November, 2007: "For the first time in decades, national security has become a potentially winning issue for Democrats"). A child would have known to do that; that oh-so-bold advice proves nothing.
(More here.)
Salon.com
Earlier this week, a new poll and accompanying "strategic analysis" was released by Democracy Corps (the Democratic firm founded by James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Bob Shrum), co-sponsored by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner ("GQR") and the "centrist" Third Way. It spat out decades-old, warmed-over, fear-driven conventional wisdom: Democrats are in danger of being seen as Weak on National Security and Terrorism, etc. etc., and specifically warned of the dangers from abandoning Bush/Cheney Terrorism policies (while suggesting ways for Democrats to appear Strong when they do). In response, Andrew Sullivan rightly urged caution about taking seriously any such analysis from this inside-Washington, "centrist"-Democratic faction, because -- as he put it -- "they always, always reeked of fear"; have been dominated by a "refusal to stand up against the Cheneyite right on critical matters such as national security and American values"; and "very few represent that kind of politics more than Jim Carville, Stan Greenberg and, yes, Rahm Emanuel, still traumatized after all these years."
Today, Jeremy Rosner of GQR wrote an email strenuously objecting to Sullivan's claims ("I have never, ever believed or advised that Democrats should 'cede national security' to the Republicans, and neither has my partner Stan Greenberg, or my friends James Carville and Rahm Emanuel"). He quotes from several memos issued by that faction -- mostly from 2006-2009 -- urging Democrats to exploit various national security weaknesses of Bush and the GOP, along with one from late 2003. Obviously -- as support for the Iraq War crumbled and the public began doubting the GOP 's national security approach -- these strategists advised Democrats to exploit that change in public opinion (November, 2007: "For the first time in decades, national security has become a potentially winning issue for Democrats"). A child would have known to do that; that oh-so-bold advice proves nothing.
(More here.)
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