When a professional political operative like James Carville says “I’m gonna be honest,” a modicum of skepticism is called for. These guys don’t get paid for being honest. They get paid for promoting partisan agendas.
In this emailed political ad, Carville is promoting three Democratic U.S. Senate incumbents, whose photos we see but whose names we don’t: Jon Tester (MT), Sherrod Brown (OH), and Jacky Rosen (NV).
But why should we trust “the ragin’ Cajun” or any other political hired gun – Democrat or Republican – to “be honest” with voters or potential donors when the name-of-the-game they play is Win the Election By Any Means Necessary? (Or, hopefully, only by legal means.)
Carville lives in a world in which Republicans are so bad that it doesn't matter what their names are, what they look like, or what they've done, and Democrats are good – so good that you don’t even need to know the names of Democratic candidates or anything about their record or their platform in order to give them your money.