Posted on 07/09/2024 5:53:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democratic strategist James Carville said former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama should direct discussions on who should replace President Biden on the ticket.
“Mark my words: Joe Biden is going to be out of the 2024 presidential race. Whether he is ready to admit it or not. His pleas on Monday to congressional Democrats for support will not unite the party behind him,” Mr. Carville wrote in an op-ed in The New York Times Monday.
He added that the party shouldn’t just shift gears to nominate Vice President Kamala Harris or another Democrat; the process should be “out in the open — the exact opposite of what Donald Trump wants us to do.”
Mr. Carville wants the Democratic Party to hold four town halls before the Democratic National Convention in August — in the South, Northeast, Midwest and West.
“We can recruit the two most obvious and qualified people in the world to facilitate substantive discussions: Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. They may not represent every faction under our party’s big tent. But they care as much about our democracy as our nation’s first president, they understand what it takes to be president, and they know how to win,” he said.
Mr. Carville suggested that eight contenders be chosen to participate in the town halls, including Ms. Harris, who he said would be a “formidable opponent” against former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
“Town halls will give Americans a fresh look at Ms. Harris and introduce them to our deep bench of smart, dynamic, tested leaders,” he said. “In addition, Democratic delegates will get to further grill and stress-test these leaders in public and private meetings before a formal vote of all the delegates at the Democratic convention.”
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So f the voters ?
Who cares that Biden got millions of votes, almost all of them.
This from the campions of “Democracy.”
Boy, is he living in the past!
Ah ... phony “town halls” to pick the nominee. This is hilarious.
True Dems believe the American voters would not be competent to vote for their own leaders....that would be that word cliche “democracy” the hypocritical Marxist tyrants want to foist on us.
Yeah, the last time they mattered Carville had to worry about paying for haircuts.
“In 1804, after the disastrous 1800 election and House runoff election between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr the 12th Amendment was ratified, which required separate votes for presidential and vice presidential candidates. Congressional caucuses were then used to pick presidential and vice presidential candidates.
“But within three decades, national nomination conventions replaced congressional caucuses as the method for choosing party nominees for president.”
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/a-brief-history-of-presidential-primaries
Dems going the Kingmaker route again.
It’s who they are.
There is no democracy in the Democrat part.
If Carville got to pick he’d probably select Terry McCauliffe the snake.
This is the Democrat definition of “saving democracy”!
“out in the open — the exact opposite of what Donald Trump wants us to do.”
Trump doesn’t have anything to do with this; it’s kind of a “I know what you’re thinking” nonsensical statement.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
—John Adams
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”
—John Adams, A Defense of the American Constitutions, 178
“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”
—Joseph Addison
“It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
—Alfred Adler
“Judges ought to remember that their office is jus dicere and not jus dare; to interpret law and not to make or give law.”
—Francis Bacon
many more interesting quotes are here:
https://www.civiced.org/quotations-about-democracy
This is an absolute slap in the face of George Washington.
This is an absolute slap in the face of George Washington.
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
—H.L. Mencken
How democratic.
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
—George Bernard Shaw
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