Pre 9/11 Yoosta-Bees
You may remember that one of the most annoying guests to routinely appear on cable news during the 2000 election theft was Pat Cadell, who (following up his appearance as the creepy costume store owner in Eyes Wide Shut) showed up to relentlessly bash Al Gore but was described as a “Democratic pollster” because he took a couple polls for Jimmy Carter in 1976 or something. Apparently, he’s still around, still being describing himself (or being described) as a Democrat, still a reactionary, and still making arguments that would need to accrue a lot more coherence to rise to the level of being “illogical.”
I just pictured Cadell as a straggling and decrepit old Confederate soldier in uniform and he makes a whole lot more sense in that context. The cap with a hole shot through it from a Yankee bullet. Faded gray ragged uniform with dried mud from crawling away from the battle on his belly. Yeah, the South shall writhe again thanks to the likes of Pat.
Another quote from the concern trolls:
a failure, regardless of whether it passes.
That’s really and truly funny. I honestly don’t know how they do that with a straight face.
The yoosta-bes don’t count anymore. They just lie on the floor ’til we sweep them away.
Win.
This guy’s eyes yoosta freak me out. Luckily I cured that by not watching any of those crappy pundit-filled yellfests masquerading as political discussion.
I remember when he had gray hair.
Wasn’t he McGovern’s pollster? I like he has a Shrum-like record of total failure.
In the ’70s, Caddell sketched an ideal Democratic presidential candidate whom he called “Sen. Smith.” He then cast a series of actual candidates in the role: Jimmy Carter (successfully in 1976); Gary Hart (almost successfully in 1984); and Joe Biden (totally unsuccessfully in 1988). Since I can’t find anything really good about this on the internets, we’ll have to settle for what I did find.
In short: Pat Caddell, idiot though he may be, had a long track record as a Democratic pollster. And it was, at least early on, a modestly successful one. Shrum is still a more extreme example of converting repeated failure into career opportunities. All of this is still not a good reason for anyone to pay any attention to Caddell now.
All I can add is: great combover.
As I pointed out before, it’s sort of like when the media calls Kevin Phillips or John Dean a “Republican” based on facts which are 40 years out of date.