All of the feminists backing Hillary must love this kind of talk.

Oh, yeah, they'll hoot and holler all right and then vote for McCain.

This "Republicans will eat him alive" crap is so ridiculous, especially coming from Clinton, who god know has so much dirt and baggage that hasn't been mined yet, but the GOP would certainly oblige in the fall if she miraculously managed to get the nomination. Obama isn't going all Lee Atwater on Clinton because he won't do that to another Democrat or the party. Doesn't mean for one second that he's not going to be very tough on McCain and be able to respond to whatever the GOP can throw at him -- which isn't much, at this point. And with the House win in Louisiana yesterday, we have some proof that people aren't paying much attention to what the GOP has to say in their attack ads and smear campaigns.

Side note: Of course Carville's a sleazy back-stabbing conniving bastard. I guess I love him kind of like comedians love Bush. There's so much material, and it's all so laughable (or would be if it didn't work so well).

And Carville reminds me of the 9 months I worked as a ranger in south coastal Georgia. It was so pretty, the food was so good, everyone called me ma'am (at the tender age of 28)...and the men I worked with were unrepentantly sexist, racist and crude. If I was to survive there I had to be tougher than them, which I was. I left that life because I was afraid of turning into a man myself. So I'm just saying I kind of get where they're coming from.

I've been thinking a lot this past couple days about how bad for my mental health it is to spend half the day online. I got my 12-step book out last night, admitted I'm powerless over political blogs and my life has become unmanageable, and acknowledged a power greater than myself (or at least greater than my regular old willpower) that could help. So I've now put hard blocks on a set of political sites for all but an hour a day except Sunday, when I get two hours. So goodbye cruel world--for today!

So I guess her core demographic is now women with at least 2 testicles?

No wonder why I haven't dated any Hillary supporters!

I've been thinking a lot this past couple days about how bad for my mental health it is to spend half the day online. I got my 12-step book out last night, admitted I'm powerless over political blogs and my life has become unmanageable, and acknowledged a power greater than myself (or at least greater than my regular old willpower) that could help. So I've now put hard blocks on a set of political sites for all but an hour a day except Sunday, when I get two hours. So goodbye cruel world--for today!

TPM should turn the un-used Horse's Mouth tab at the top of the page for an ongoing online therapy session centered around this exact issue. It's sunny and warm outside and I'm sitting indoors writing about James Carville and Hillary's Three- Balled Strategy for Victory?

Step away from the laptop.....

I used to like Carville, salty feminist, but he's said one too many things that were so very mean-spirited that I think he's a prime ass.

I can't stand him.

One of the women Bill was accused of sexually harassing - Carville said: "drag a dollar bill through a trailer park and see what follows it - that's what she is."

That's about when I decided I didn't think he was so damn funny anymore.

He's an ass. He's married to a Neo-con horror. I want them both to go the fuck away.

Whether sleazy or not, this has been a deliberate Clinton strategy for a few weeks now, as I mentioned in a recent comment here. Bill Clinton and Carville have taken in recent weeks to issuing gender-loaded, locker room taunts, essentially challenging Obaba's manhood. While HRC makes her own pitch to women, to support the "filly in the race" for the sake of the advancement of women, WJC and Carville have been running with the old school message, "How can you expect this guy to win when he can't even beat a girl?"

The tactic is partly designed to goad Obama into some sort of gaffe. But it also puts him in a gender double-standard sandwich. If he goes hard at Clinton and gets too aggressive, he loses good guy points for "hitting the girl". If he takes it easy on her, he loses points for "not having as much balls as the girl." It's been a tough bind.

You've got to hand it to the Clintons when it comes to pure, cynical chutpah. They are essentially sending two opposite gender role messages, and no one is really calling them on it.