Carville: Reagan's big tent has imploded

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.

The tent just let in the voters and not a handful of people in a smoke filled room deciding who we vote for.

Exactly. If Dede had somehow won a primary fair and square, then so be it. But just because some GOP lib in the NY state party selected her and told everyone to eat it does not mean me have to eat it.

I’m a big tent republican.
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Here’s an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What you’ll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff won’t have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. We’re often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Rudy Giuliani flunks some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone else’s rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy. That’s a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.

“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.”

Yep, that’s right, Carville.

I never have really understood why Socialists and the new millennium democrat think in the way they do.

It's the "Inversion Principle." It's summed up best by Groucho Marx who sung "Whatever it is, I'm against it."

In more formal (Karl) Marxist terms they call it dialectic. Very generally put it means that if you want to change a bunch of people's minds about something simply offer a contradictory argument - 180 degrees opposite, invert it - and the human mind will tend to think that the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Since you started with the truth and have now "compromised" down a little, then you can do the same thing with the new compromise until all the "truth" of the original argument is gone and you are left with the opposite being "true."

This is how the left has turned much of America upside down. We need to redefine America again in its original, Constitutional terms.

It will take awhile but not nearly as long as undoing it took.

To libs “big tent” means “big umbrella” - a shelter that moves as the sheltered under it migrate (always leftward).

Carville knows that “big test” REALLY means a fixed, yet malleable, spot where a large structure is put up, where people can come to get out from under the rain.

Umbrellas, by necessity, are size limited.

Tents are not.

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