Actually Carville is brilliant. As somebody who has been playing this game professionally, although still in the minors, I have a great deal of respect for Carville. What people need to understand is this. Hillary wants to be president, Bill does not want her to be president. Bill is giving Kerry advice on how TO get elected to prevent Hillary from having a shot in '08. Carville is working for Hillary in trying to derail Kerry's campaign to open the door for Hillary. Carville knows a loss won;t hurt him any, they will claim Kerry was a bad candidate who made too many mistakes and waited too long on bringing the Clinton Crew in. Carville may lack all social grace, but he knows the game, and his only equal in terms of slash and burn campaigning is Rove. The difference is Rove (1) does it with a little more grace and discretion and (2) Rove results to it only when needed... Carville is brilliant at what he does, but he is a one trick pony.