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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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Worried...what happened in NY scared them...
1 posted on 11/01/2009 9:42:34 AM PST by markomalley
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To: markomalley

How dare that bald monkey mention Reagan.


2 posted on 11/01/2009 9:43:31 AM PST by omega4179
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To: markomalley

What is that I smell from the ugly mutant..I smell FEAR


3 posted on 11/01/2009 9:43:58 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: markomalley

The tent just let in the voters and not a handful of people in a smoke filled room deciding who we vote for. The people of NY just scooped up the poop in the tent and threw it out.


4 posted on 11/01/2009 9:44:17 AM PST by joinedafterattack
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To: markomalley

Carville is smart.......and these events scare the hell out of him.


5 posted on 11/01/2009 9:44:27 AM PST by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: markomalley

You worry about your tent and we’ll worry about ours. More “projection” from our friends.


6 posted on 11/01/2009 9:44:54 AM PST by Kahuna
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To: markomalley
"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.

Why is it that RAT PUNDITS sound like high school drop outs when they talk?

7 posted on 11/01/2009 9:46:43 AM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature (FR33 73h lOn9 fOrM 81R7H c3r71F1ca73!!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Baahhahahahha. Looks like Carville is trying to put a proactive spin on it. They know this means trouble for them folks. You can almost smell the flop sweat. How soon until we see the wastebasket over his head again?


8 posted on 11/01/2009 9:46:58 AM PST by marlon
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To: Kakaze
...and these events scare the hell out of him. - very true, he knows that the "big tent" Republican Party guaranteed DNC power.
9 posted on 11/01/2009 9:47:44 AM PST by Free_at_last_-2001 (A country can survive its fools, but it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: markomalley

From the ‘Secret Liberal/Democrat Lexicon’...

“Compromise” = ‘I get my way..’

“Bipartisan” = ‘I get my way, and you tell me how WONDERFUL I am..’

“Big Tent” = ‘We’re all Socialists, now..’


10 posted on 11/01/2009 9:48:09 AM PST by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: Kakaze

Why would he be upset about this??

Even if Hoffman doesn’t win, this is the opening shot of the flushing of the GOP


11 posted on 11/01/2009 9:49:10 AM PST by rasl04 ("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" Barry Goldwater)
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To: markomalley

Fortunately, poisonous knuckle draggers like carville don’t get to decide what the Republican party is and should be. This lying creep gets no vote.


12 posted on 11/01/2009 9:49:48 AM PST by DPMD (~)
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To: Kahuna

Dear Serpenthead,
It’s indeed a big tent and if someone wants to come in
they are welcome. However, it they are demonrats in
Republican clothing, they can take themselves off
to your tent and get abused THERE instead of giving
us a bad name, or is that your plan from the beginning?


13 posted on 11/01/2009 9:50:13 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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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."

Carville either needs a history lesson on Reagan or is making a pathetic attempt to mischaracterize him. Regan couldn't have been more against the big tent mentality espoused by the OP(formerly the GOP) as reflected in the Reagan quotes below:

"We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn't make any sense at all." – Ronald Reagan, 1965

“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.” – Ronald Reagan, CPAC address, 1975
14 posted on 11/01/2009 9:50:58 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: markomalley

Carville is a grade A jackass. He’s a demagogue. He should be punched in the mouth and in the groin at the same time. THE GOP is only getting rid of the RINO dems that infiltrated it.


15 posted on 11/01/2009 9:51:35 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: markomalley

Looking forward to seeing Carville this time next year.... with a trashcan on his head


16 posted on 11/01/2009 9:51:55 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo (That smell of death...be seeing ya big casino)
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To: markomalley

Reverse psychology quit working on me when I was about 11.


17 posted on 11/01/2009 9:52:08 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: Uncle Ike

You nailed it 100%.


18 posted on 11/01/2009 9:52:13 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

“I smell FEAR”

NO....
What you smell is the focus-grouped, “Radical, Racist, Old, Republican Rednecks!” meme that Democrats and their friends in the media have been pushing since last summer, that comes from the radical Communist/Democrat ThinkProgress/CommonDreams arm of the Party.

Think Vernon Johns-type racism.

Remember who it is we are dealing with now, folks. These aren’t your father’s Democrats, or even the Clinton Kings of Corruption. These are the Race-haters, criminals, and radical marxists that are now in charge.


19 posted on 11/01/2009 9:52:43 AM PST by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: markomalley

This guy looks like a turtle on meth. He says things for shock value that even he doesn’t believe.


20 posted on 11/01/2009 9:52:53 AM PST by FTJM
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