Must be a requirement that Democrats have no memory cells. Well, at least not a contigent of them that is large enough to encompass both what they think others do AND the things they do themselves.
A statement made by James Carville has come back to haunt him, courtesy of those who understand that the Democrat’s war on Rush Limbaugh is not only unwarranted, but hypocritical. This apparently late-blooming paragon of virtue told a group of reporters on the morning of September 11, 2001, “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.”
Stanley Greenberg, another top Democratic strategist at that same breakfast table, added, “”We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him.” He apparently found it humorous that Americans actually considered it important whether or not the President succeeds at his job, “They don’t want him to fail. I mean, they think it matters if the president of the United States fails.”
Of course, and rather frighteningly when you consider they were making these kinds of statements as the terrorist planes were flying into the Twin Towers, it wasn’t more than a matter of minutes later when word of the attacks began to be broadcast, and in some swamp-creature version of a Hail Mary play, Mr. Carville immediately retracted. And the ever-obedient main-stream media reporters, with the biggest story of their lives in front of them, promptly and oh-so-conveniently forgot about it.
But just like that swamp creature, Carville’s past rose again in all its slimey glory when he decided to call it out of hiding by recently telling CNN, “The most influential Republican in the United States today, Mr. Rush Limbaugh, said he did not want President Obama to succeed.”
“The television cameras just can’t stay away from him,” he then told Politico. “Our strategy depends on him keeping talking, and I think we’re going to succeed.”
Greenberg added: “He’s driving the Republican reluctance to deal with Obama, which Americans want.”
Now today, Carville had to go suck-up over at CNN and explain how much more virtuous were his and Greenberg’s failure wishes than is Rush Limbaugh’s.
I think it was just another convenient excuse for another Democrat to bash Rush.
But you have to admit it’s amusing to see the squirming that must accompany it this time.