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Carville: Reagan's big tent has imploded
Politico ^ | 11/1/2009 | Josh Gerstein

Posted on 11/01/2009 9:42:34 AM PST by markomalley

If the withdrawal of Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava in Upstate New York will make the race tougher for Democrats to win, they don't seem too upset about it. In fact, they're reveling in the news.

"I have an announcement to make. Ronald Reagan’s big tent just collapsed in Upstate New York. It no longer exists," Democratic strategist James Carville said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."

Carville said the message from the NY-23 race is "if you're not our definition--if you’re not a Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin directive of what constitutes a Republican, if you don’t check the necessary boxes, then they’re going to primary you….People have said this for a long time this is the kind of party they wanted, they now have it."

"I think somebody can go pick the tent up and throw it out in lake Ontario somewhere, because it don’t exist no more," Carville said.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bigtent; ny2009
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To: marlon

Carville and Jarrett and anyone else who can get air/screen/paper time....they’re SPINNING so much they are going to get dizzy.....prolly about Tues, midnight!


41 posted on 11/01/2009 10:06:28 AM PST by goodnesswins (Tagline, oh tagline, whereart thou?)
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To: Uncle Ike
"“Bipartisan” = ‘I get my way, and you tell me how WONDERFUL I am..’"...and you get all of the blame when it blows up.
42 posted on 11/01/2009 10:07:44 AM PST by Semper Mark (May God help us.)
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To: markomalley

You know, its’ always fun to watch ol’ serpenthead as his BP climbs towards 4 digits. He should never be allowed on the tube without his wife. Mary can b*tch slap him so eloquently whenever he sounds too rediculous, which is most of the time.


43 posted on 11/01/2009 10:12:34 AM PST by mapmaker77
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To: markomalley

“I have an announcement to make. Ronald Reagan’s big tent just collapsed in Upstate New York. It no longer exists,” Democratic strategist James Carville said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

James: Even if this is true (which it is not - that is just your deluded opinion), no one listens to what you say anyway. Please - just go home and take care of your kids. The nation does not need you. Never has.


44 posted on 11/01/2009 10:13:07 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable, and unambiguous clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: markomalley
"I have an announcement to make. Ronald Reagan’s big tent just collapsed in Upstate New York. It no longer exists," Democratic strategist James Carville said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."

Ehem...the "big tent" belonged to Lee Atwater, you douche bag. And he would have paid dearly for that sentiment had he not been diagnosed terminal shortly thereafter.

I despise spin doctors.

45 posted on 11/01/2009 10:21:18 AM PST by papertyger (It took a Carter to elect a Reagan, President Palin....)
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To: markomalley

A big tent filled with democrats ain’t gonna be much help, is it?


46 posted on 11/01/2009 10:31:16 AM PST by Jagman
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To: markomalley

And this coming from a man who was marginalized during the presidential campaign for supporting Hillary and for his venom towards Bill Richardson. Now he has fallen back in line, jumped on the bandwagon and mimics the propaganda fed to him by his new masters.


47 posted on 11/01/2009 10:32:54 AM PST by eaglestar
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To: omega4179

Right you are......and I’m STILL asking.....Mary? What in the hell were you thinking? Were you that desperate???


48 posted on 11/01/2009 10:44:49 AM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: markomalley

First, they must fear us.


49 posted on 11/01/2009 10:44:54 AM PST by Mariner
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To: Dawgreg

As if Reagan had anything in common with Scozzofava (D) Ny


50 posted on 11/01/2009 10:52:40 AM PST by omega4179
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To: markomalley
Why does Carville matter any more?
51 posted on 11/01/2009 10:56:04 AM PST by kempo
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To: markomalley
You Wouldn't Listen at the Townhalls but, You're Going to Listen Now!> /a>
52 posted on 11/01/2009 11:00:57 AM PST by houeto (Almost 20 hours out of nine months? Pray for our troops. They NEED it!)
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To: markomalley

Maybe we should create a Maytag Alert for extreme spin?


53 posted on 11/01/2009 11:29:19 AM PST by Eagle Eye (3%)
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To: markomalley
Democrats are extremely worried about RINOs taking a thrashing. They now what's coming next.
54 posted on 11/01/2009 12:01:49 PM PST by ryan71 (Smells like a revolution)
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To: FTJM
This guy looks like a turtle on meth.


55 posted on 11/01/2009 12:03:33 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: DPMD

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Fortunately, poisonous knuckle draggers like carville don’t get to decide what the Republican party is and should be.
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Until we get closed primaries, I have only one word to say to that: John McCain.


56 posted on 11/01/2009 12:37:01 PM PST by noblejones (Obama rules!)
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To: markomalley
Democratic strategist James Carville said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."

If a jackass brays and no one is watching, does anyone care?

57 posted on 11/01/2009 12:54:21 PM PST by CommerceComet
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To: omega4179

There are many in this political ring who don’t deserve the HONOR of saying the name of Ronald Reagan. God bless him.


58 posted on 11/01/2009 1:59:41 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: joinedafterattack

No James what happened is Obama has awakened People as to who they are AMERICANS,not Wanering nabobs of colossal ignorance as you are.


59 posted on 11/01/2009 3:36:38 PM PST by ballplayer
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To: markomalley

Oh sure, Carville is going to help us get our tent back up, suuuure....


60 posted on 11/01/2009 4:50:18 PM PST by gaijin
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