Not Your Sweetie

Crossfire Exchange Sweet to Revisit




CARVILLE: Candy, the sugar industry is huge in Louisiana. The Bush administration wouldn't
dare do anything so dishonest and sleazy as already have a dealer import more Mexican sugar
in the United States and wait until after the election to do that, would they?

CROWLEY: Well, let me tell you that Mary Landrieu as you may know, already has an ad out
saying that there in a Mexican paper there was talk of a secret deal about bringing Mexican
sugar in, which clearly would not be good news for jobs in Louisiana.

I can tell you that Suzy Terrell has said, Look, I called the U.S. Trade rep today. He said
there is not deal, secret or otherwise. There are ongoing negotiations.

NAFTA, they point out James, was -- negotiations began in the Clinton administration,
but there is no secret deal at the minute -- at the moment.

What's interesting to me is the sort of heat of this back and forth about sugar. It just shows
you how close this race is.

CARVILLE: Right, I understand. But if they actually did increase the amount of sugar,
that would be a sleazy, despicable, lying thing for this administration to do, wouldn't
it? And every journalist should criticize it.

(LAUGHTER)

CROWLEY: Whatever you say, James.

(LAUGHTER)

CARLSON: No, but, Candy, truly, I mean there's really no chance that Susie Terrell is
going to lose this, is there? I mean, if you were betting, you would never bet on the
incumbent senator, would you?

CROWLEY: Look, I can tell you that they're very -- they're pretty cautious in the Terrell
campaign. And they say, Look, we know that the Landrieu campaign is calling around and
saying that they're going to lose, but we think that this is pretty translucent.

They're going to try to set it up that if in fact Landrieu does win, it will look like a big
defeat for George Bush.

I don't think anybody can call this race. I really don't. I think anything can happen because
there's sort of two opposing things here. Will people come out because they want to show
George Bush that indeed they support him, or will they come out because they want to show
George Bush that the mid-term elections were not just a blanket approval for him?


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