James Carville, a guy who made his name by calling other people names, is making the rounds, hawking a book entitled “40 More Years, How Democrats will Rule the Next Generation.” He’s photoshopped on the cover with his arm around Barrack Obama. The whole thing is a farce. James Carville did everything he could to prevent Barrack Obama from becoming president, and now he wants ride his popularity all the way to the bank. Shameful.
The premise of this silly book is that because the Democrats have the young voters, they will keep them. This is a fallacy. Everybody is a liberal when they’re young. When you’re in your twenties, the world is a place where advantages shouldn’t matter, where there should be compensations for disadvantages. Everything is supposed to be fair.
When you get a little older, and your parents begin to retract that amazing safety net you’d so long enjoyed, your ideas begin to evolve. Now you’re paying all your own bills, you’ve got a mortgage, and you’ve probably got people counting on you.
People will age into a more conservative set of ideals when they have more responsibilities, just as they always have before. It isn’t dependant on their religion, or the color of their skin, it never has been. It’s always about what’s best for your family.
Carville is using this book to promote his polling firm. The numbers are useless. So the proportion of white married Christians has changed, so what? Everybody wants a nice home, in a good neighborhood, where their children can grow up safe, and advantaged. To say that is the exclusive aspiration of white married Christians is to play the race card, rather sloppily.
People are still crediting Carville for “It’s the economy, stupid.” The truth is, people have been voting their wallets since people have been voting. James Carville didn’t come up with the concept, he was simply more rude when he said it.
By the way, the dingy duo, James Carville and Mary Matlin are once again trying to do for Crystal Cruises what Kathy Lee Gifford did for Carnival, the Fun Ships! Actually, what they’re really trying to do is get a discount rate for their own $40,000 vacation. Just saying.
