Carville: GOP Is Committing ‘Suicide’

I just didn’t think that a modern American party was capable of suicide. I thought that something would happen, that somebody would think of a way to stop this. And they couldn’t. I think that they wanted to but they couldn’t. … And most of the Republicans that I talk to, which are quite a few, they are not so much worried about losing the election as I think they are about losing an entire generation. No one knows how much damage that Trump is going to cause the Republican Party beyond 2016. It is really something, to watch a party just march right over a cliff, and no one can stop them.

— Political strategist James Carville, telling Vanity Fair that the Republican party is committing suicide.

Carville, from the ‘Bleeding Obvious’ File

“These guys have been outflanked, outmaneuvered, outsmarted, and they’re not taking it very well. They’re just going to have to stand there and just get beat because that’s what’s going to happen to Trump. He’s just getting slapped around every time you turn around. … If anything, he’s pretty stupid when it comes to politics.

— James Carville, saying he is not impressed with Donald Trump’s political skills, The Hill reports.

Carville Mocks Notion of ‘Tax Virginity’

The Governor and Legislature constantly refer to how can they maintain their purity, or as it is sometimes referred to, their ‘tax virginity.’ You have to be kidding me. This reminds me of two over-sexed teenagers dry humping in a backseat of car parked behind a levee wondering how far they can go while maintaining their purity or virginity. We are literally at the mercy of buffoons and comedians.

— Democratic startegist James Carville, writing in the LSU student paper Daily Reveille.

Carville Hoping for ‘Political Climate Change’ Before November

If the election were held in the current climate, it wouldn’t be hard to argue that the Democrats might have a bad, perhaps even awful, election ahead of them. However, the one thing we know is that it is not going to be held now — it is going to be held in November. This is a case where we don’t know if there is going to be a political climate change or not. Suffice to say, I am pulling for some political climate change.

— James Carville, in a column in The Hill, on the 2014 midterms.