Posted on 11/09/2016 7:26:58 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Longtime Clinton backer James Carville reacts to the apparent outcome of the 2016 election.
JAMES CARVILLE: Shaky is about as optimistic a word as I can see right now. I think this is, if this thing goes where it looks like, where I hope it doesn't go, people gotta understand, this election is gonna have consequences like you can't believe.
I was looking with Steve Schmidt's presentation and I think Steve was, if anything, optimistic. Donald Trump now has the authority of an election behind him.
It's the biggest thing that you can have in a democracy.
You can't -- this is not an antiseptic event. This is now-- He has the validation of the people.
He said what he was running on. It was pretty clear what he was offering. You know, obviously I'm -- you can imagine, I'm distraught about the entire thing. I feel terrible for a lot of my friends. But what is here tonight is hard to put into perspective. We're going to have one party ruling this country, and Obamacare is done. Dodd/Frank is done. The diplomatic and financial consequences, I'm looking at the futures, they're going to go further.
It's hard to imagine what this means.
There's no sense and sugar-coating it to people. I think Wisconsin is very problematic... And if you just look at what it is, I hate to say it, but I hope, please god let me be wrong...
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Did he put a wastebasket over his head like he did last time?
At the time he made those quotes, the networks hadn’t called Wisconsin yet.
Carville knew it was a lost cause, but didn’t want to say so before it got called.
An election where the winner gets over 300 EVs is a MANDATE!!!
Carville wrote a book around about 2008 titled 40 years of Democrat rule. It wasn’t meant to be a comedy.
Thanks for the explanation.
It still won’t stop the Democrats from trying to block every bill, every appointment, every initiative that they can.
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