{"id":41153,"date":"2020-02-08T21:55:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41153"},"modified":"2020-02-08T21:55:18","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T21:55:18","slug":"democrats-need-to-pay-careful-attention-to-james-carville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41153","title":{"rendered":"Democrats need to pay careful attention to James Carville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Bernie%20%23JamesCarville%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41154\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/bernie-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Consider yourself forewarned: The item I am attaching to this brief blog post contains some <em>rough language,<\/em> but the underlying message is spot on.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from former Bill Clinton political adviser &#8212; and creator of the phrase, <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; James Carville.<\/p>\n<p>Carville warns that the Democratic Party is squandering its chance of defeating Donald John Trump later this year if it nominates a non-Democrat, a socialist in the form of Sen. Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2020\/2\/7\/21123518\/trump-2020-election-democratic-party-james-carville?fbclid=IwAR202guK31HRUrzYuwWYfldSJzX5zVglpi0B9jCHI5G05-aNnH0q3bPSJtI\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carville says he is &#8220;scared to death&#8221; of the party&#8217;s future if it marches down the far-left side of the highway upon which Sanders is traveling. I happen to concur with what Carville is asserting.<\/p>\n<p>It is not unrealistic to believe that Trump could win re-election in a 40-state landslide if Democrats are foolish enough to nominate Sanders, who Carville said isn&#8217;t even a Democrat. He is an independent who represents Vermont in the Senate. But there he is, sitting at or near the top of the Democratic Party field.<\/p>\n<p>Carville knows how to win these elections. He helped steer Bill Clinton to victory in 1992 in impressive fashion. Clinton won with a substantial Electoral College majority and a strong plurality among voters in a three-way race that included the late Ross Perot running as an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>So, when Carville urges his party, the Democrats, to look more pragmatically at a nominee, someone who tacks more to the center than to the far left fringes, then I believe he is onto something.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Bernie%20%23JamesCarville%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider yourself forewarned: The item I am attaching to this brief blog post contains some rough language, but the underlying message is spot on. It comes from former Bill Clinton political adviser &#8212; and creator of the phrase, &#8220;It&#8217;s the economy, stupid&#8221; &#8212; James Carville. Carville warns that the Democratic Party is squandering its chance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Democrats need to pay careful attention to James Carville<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[597,9208],"class_list":["post-41153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-james-carville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41155,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41153\/revisions\/41155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}