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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That’s all America needs; a deviant and an avowed marxist picking America’s candidates.
In 1979 Senator Biden stated publicly that Carter shouldn’t run for reelection. Biden wanted a better candidate, Carter didn’t listen.
The entire DNC needs to put a giant trash bucket on top of its head!
WIKI
In 1992, Carville helped lead Bill Clinton to a win against George H. W. Bush in the presidential election. In crafting an economic strategy for Clinton, Carville reprised the populist rhetoric his client, Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford, successfully wielded the prior year, which was distilled into a series of articles Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele wrote for The Philadelphia Inquirer. The articles were re-printed into book form: America: What Went Wrong?
Carville sought to shield Clinton from Gennifer Flowers’ allegations of her extramarital sexual affair, which emerged shortly before the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic primary. Carville alleged that a supermarket tabloid paid Flowers $175,000 for sharing her story, and that “the mainstream media got sucker-punched” by her allegations. Carville set out to shame the press, berating reporters with charges of “cash for trash” journalism, and noted: “I’m a lot more expensive than Gennifer Flowers.”
In response to the 1997 civil lawsuit then Arkansas state employee Paula Jones filed against Bill Clinton over her claims of sexual harassment while attending a conference on official business, Carville infamously remarked: “Drag a hundred dollars through a trailer park and there’s no telling what you’ll find.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carville
Talk about a threat to democracy!
“...they might think they have a say.”
They will anyway. Any person put in to Biden’s status as a candidate still has to be voted in. And they can’t just select someone to take over the white house. That’s covered in the Constitution. So the only voters that will be getting screwed will be their own democratic voters trying to limit their choice. And I hope it pisses them off enough to cross parties which won’t do anything but add to Trump and take away from the democratic candidate. Win/win.
wy69
I still predict it will all be settled very quickly, perhaps modulo the timing of the announcement.
Really deep bench, huh James?.. Deep in the doo-doo that is.
Pretty much been that way for a long time. I warned people that this was happening, having a front row seat to the experience in California until moving away nearly 6 years ago. But no, CatOwner has lost his mind and doesn't know what he is talking about. But that nonsense has been spreading to the rest of the country, and the attitude remains "We must play nice and remain within the law".
See you in the boxcar lines in the near future, assuming some illegal or government brown shirt hasn't killed us first ...
Used to be the Democrats didnt trust their own voters, turns out now they dont trust their own convention delegates either.
You just outdid anything I could say.
Who needs Democrat primaries and voters when the Politburo can just pick the leader?
Yeah ! that pair is about as trust worthy as a goat starved camel jockey !!
The Democrat Part needs no stinking voters!
“We can recruit the two most obvious and qualified people in the world to facilitate substantive discussions: Barack Obama and Bill Clinton"
Gollum writes again!
Sounds like a knife fight - might make for some good fireworks...
I’d vote to send all 3 of them to prison.
That is one lizard that needs to go back under his rock.
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