Video: Carville says Democrats need a narrative

Before I show this clip, I would like to mention that when I was younger my idols consisted almost completely of sports players.  Now that I study political science and history at the University of Washington, I "admire", not idolize, a number of influential political individuals past and present -- ranging from Martin Luther King to the 36th and 42nd Presidents of the United States (I'll let you find who those were!).  I don't really idolize more than a small handful of people these days, mainly due to the fact that I'm not a child anymore.  But two of the four that I do idolize are James Carville and Paul Begala.

Last night, Democratic strategist James Carville was on MSNBC's "The Situation", hosted by his former CNN conservative buddy Tucker Carlson.  As usual, Carville had advice for the Democrats on how to take back Congress this November.  When Carville, the former Clinton strategist, speaks, you listen!:

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If you can't view the clip, here is a small portion of the transcript:

CARLSON: "Give me two things the Democrats need to do in order to win."

CARVILLE: "The Democrats need to produce a narrative -- and I've said this time and time again.  I've said it to you and to audiences and everyone else is Democrats tend to get up and they speak like Roman Senators -- 'And I stand for' -- and they do a checklist of the interest groups in the Democratic Party, as opposed to a story, a narrative, definitive things to which you are for or against.  I hope over the course of this year, coming into the Congressionals, that we can do a little bit better than that and I really hope we can do better in '08."

CARLSON: "What is the narrative."

CARVILLE: "I think the narrative is we've got to solve our addiction to foreign oil.  We've got to move very decisively in this area...It's not just a couple of bag eggs in Washington, it's a bad barrel..of eggs."

When Carville said the word 'narrative' it made me automatically think of Bill Clinton and John Edwards.  The two candidates were able to tell a story in a way that attracted middle-American voters to their candidacies.  If you've heard Virginia Governor Mark Warner speak, it's easy to get the same feeling when listening to him.  So you get the idea why, as of now, I support Mark Warner for the 2008 nomination.  If not him, then John Edwards.