James Carville On Romney's Wealth: Issue Isn't Whether You're Rich, It's Whether You're Clueless

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Democratic campaign strategist James Carville joined pollster Stan Greenberg and Buzzfeed editor in chief Ben Smith last night, where he discussed his book, It's the Middle Class, Stupid!, and how it relates to a recent Mitt Romney fundraiser.

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'Y'all read about that fundraiser there out in the Hamptons?' he asked the audience. 'It was like something out of The Onion with those people.' Greenberg added that, out of all the things put out and publicized about Romney by the opposition, his 'Cayman Island accounts' is what consistently sticks with voters.

'The issue isn't whether you're rich or not,' Carville added later, when talk had turned to wealthy names among Democrats. 'The issue is whether you're clueless.'

He doesn't fault anyone for their wealth, he continued, but he feels that forgetting the old refrain 'there but for the grace of God go I' is ultimately detrimental.

Carville also offered Romney a bit of advice: He shouldn't campaign as a 'regular guy' ' because he simply can't, and he doesn't even really need to ' but, instead, as a 'fixer.'

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• My' Precious'

  Its an old joke, but I like Carville.  

• Nobody 'resents' Mitt's wealth. This is an incredibly dumb argument, put forward by clueless internet trolls. In America we celebrate success. Look at Bloomberg. Here in NYC, no one begrudges him his well earned dough.

  But what we don't like are rich guys who are secretive, stash their money away in foreign accounts, hide their taxes, think that the rules don't apply to them, and make representations that stretch all credibility.

  The only people who are buying Mitt's account of his time at Bain are those who pathologically hate Obama and will twist the truth every which way to make Mitt's story fit the reality.

  This is why Mitt will lose.

• How funny is this? A left wing hack like Carville casting aspersions while at the same time blindly following the most clueless president in history.

• He's right' that's why obama will lose' because he's clueless

• 'The only people who are buying Mitt's account of his time at Bain are those who pathologically hate Obama'

  That' and every single independent fact checker who has tracked this story