Maureen Dowd has taken to calling Hillary Clinton “the Terminator” in her columns. But I would suggest that James Carville fits the description lately, and not merely because like the T-800 models we saw in the films, he has difficulty speaking English in an understandable manner.

Carville’s relentless attacks have apparently driven New Mexico Governor off the campaign trail.

Mar. 29–Gov. Bill Richardson says he’s taking a media break this week — his last national appearance was on CNN on Monday — to try to let the flap that followed his endorsement of Barack Obama simmer down.
It hasn’t worked.
CNN political analyst and Hillary Clinton backer James Carville, who ramped up the political vitriol when he made an Easter-themed allegation that Richardson had betrayed Clinton like Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, is still out there on the airwaves.
In his most recent appearance, on CNN’s “Larry King Live” on Thursday night, he called Richardson a liar and named three Clinton fundraisers to whom, he said, Richardson had promised a Clinton endorsement before going with Obama.
Through a spokesman Friday, Richardson denied ever telling any of the three — or anyone else — that Clinton had his endorsement.
This is what Carville told Larry King: “He made misrepresentations. He told people he was going to endorse Senator Clinton, that he couldn’t endorse someone else, and then at the same time apparently he was, he was, doing something else and people are justifiably and understandably furious about this.”

Richardson’s spokesman says it’s not true. Carville is either telling the truth or remarkably gutsy, naming names: Clinton fundraisers, Elizabeth Bagley, Haim Saban and Alan Patricof — “who he said claimed they received endorsement assurances directly from Richardson.”