Posted on 03/07/2025 6:55:37 PM PST by Libloather
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville criticized Democrats for their reactions to President Donald Trump's joint address to Congress on Tuesday, describing their behavior as "foolishness" on Wednesday.
Carville expressed his disappointment with Democrats' messaging after Trump's speech, claiming that the Democratic Party needs to pinpoint members who excel at getting the party's message out, such as freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.
"Democrats want to believe that everyone is equal, or we're inclusive, so everybody — when it turns to communicating the party's message, in the image of the party, some people are just better than other people, okay?" Carville stated on his "Politics War Room" podcast.
The Democratic strategist placed the responsibility of showcasing the most competent communicators the party has to offer on Congressional Minority Leaders Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Rep. Hakeem Jefferies, D-N.Y.
He noted that this may be hard to accomplish because "everybody wants to be an individual" and has a "you're not the boss of me" attitude, but it is imperative that Democratic Party leaders step up and place their best members in positions to shine.
"Schumer and Hakeem have got to say, ‘Look people, these are the people, you know, we want to [speak].’ And it's hard to do because everybody wants to be an individual. ‘You’re not the boss of me, I have an opinion.' Fine, but there's some people that are just way better at doing it than other people, and get the people that are good at it out there," Carville asserted.
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Carville repeats a typical (and all too predictable) mistake that Leftists routinely make.
Despite what they claim, The “US” is NOT the government.
Skelotor always lies and has always been wrong.
Snake head can’t help it.
LOL...there they go again, their "messaging" is all wrong. We got the Democrat message loud and clear from Biden, from Harris/Walz last year, we got it loud and clear at the President's address to Congress, from Al Green, from the obnoxious Dems auction paddles, and we got it loud and clear from the "Fighting Congresswomen" video.
The loud and clear message is Dems should not be allowed anywhere near the levers of power.
I can’t believe anyone cares what this guy thinks! He had some success 30+ years ago and that’s it!
Trump is literally Hitler, eh?
“Carville expressed his disappointment with Democrats’ MESSAGING after Trump’s speech...”
Oh, it’s the MESSENGER now, and NOT the CLEAR MESSAGE you’ve all been sending of total control by Socialist Democrats over EVERY aspect of our miserable lives?
Got it, Carville. *SNORT*
>> Sen. Elissa Slotkin
Oh yeah, that reminds me... she did the “rebuttal” to President Trump’s excellent speech, didn’t she.
I don’t recall hearing a single word or comment regarding Slut-chin’s whimpering “retort”. Must not have been all that awesome.
>> Trump is literally Hitler, eh?
Literally! Right down to the veganism and the short black moustache!
Oh wait...
Give her a break. She followed, from what I read, the absolute best State of the Union speech ever. What's a RAT to do?
“US faces ‘greatest peril’ in 80 years”
What snake head means is that the Democrat money machine is broken. No billionaire donors, no government slush funds, no illegal donations. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.
>> Give her a break... What’s a RAT to do?
Change party?
You know you suck when Carville needs to scold you.
Here’s a message for you Carville: “Live long enough to be hanged.”
He had success 30 years ago against two of the most politically tone deaf Establishment Republican candidates in modern history and still needed a 3rd party spoiler to win both times
Isn't meritocracy anathema to Democrats while DEI is all the rage? Or did James not get the memo?
Excellent summary of SerpentHead’s illustrious career!
I give him more credit for steering Slick Willie through the primaries.
“claiming that the Democratic Party needs to pinpoint members who excel at getting the party’s message out”
ah, i see, back to: “our real problem is we’re not getting our messaging out”
as far as i can tell, the Dem’s problem right now is that no one is buying what they’re selling with their messaging, namely: that folks do NOT want prendagirls beating up actual XX girls in sports, they do NOT want open borders with millions of ignorant peasants and hundreds of tons of super-fentanyl pouring across every year, they do NOT want their taxes raised, they do NOT want inflation, they do NOT want hundreds of billions of dollars being secretly spent on utterly insane projects, they do NOT want mandated EVs, they do NOT want appliances that don’t work, they do NOT want the government censoring them and mandating that they be injected that with poison, and they do NOT want their 2nd Amendment rights dismantled ...
The US isn’t at its greatest peril in 80 years. But, the Democrat party is.
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