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“One thing I would note,” Carney continued, “is there was bipartisan support at the highest levels of the Republican Party – including the president, George W. Bush, including Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party’s nominee in 2008.”

Bush is retired and McCain's positions have been repudiated. He barely beat a local talk show host in his 2008 re-election bid, and that was in the GOP primary!

So, the actual leaders of the GOP at this time are Boehner and McConnell. McCain has never been elected to the leadership. Is Carney just stupid (wasn't he a video-game developer or something?) or is he purposefully putting down the GOP leadership?

Or course, he could talk about some of the possible nominees who will challenge Obama. How about Trump? Too blunt. OK, Palin? Oh, not much softer after all.

Yeah, Carney's got a tough job, but that doesn't excuse his poor performance in it.

8 posted on 05/09/2011 3:31:00 PM PDT by Jack Black ( Whatever is left of American patriotism is now identical with counter-revolution.)

If you merged Carney and Gibbs you might get 3/5 of a brain.

13 posted on 05/09/2011 3:41:21 PM PDT by JPG (Zawahiri, you're next.)

He barely beat a local talk show host in his 2008 re-election bid, and that was in the GOP primary!

I'm no fan of McCain, but facts are facts. McCain's margin of victory over Hayworth was 24 points (56.2% to 32.1%). That's a whoopin'.

38 posted on 05/09/2011 5:06:05 PM PDT by AHerald ("Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home -- John 19:27)

He barely beat a local talk show host in his 2008 re-election bid, and that was in the GOP primary!

And he went up against JD in the 2010 primary, not 2008.

40 posted on 05/09/2011 5:09:24 PM PDT by AHerald ("Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home -- John 19:27)

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