The Ragin Cajun and one of the architects of Bill Clinton's 1993 Presidential Victory, James Carville told Democrats that one of the ways to win the 2022 Midterms is to beat on the Republicans for their :
- Part in contributing to the 2022 Domestic Terrorist Attack at the Nation's Capitol.
- Support of despicable and fringe members of Congress like Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan.
In an interview with Sean Illing of Vox News around April 27, 2021, Mr. Carville said on the January 6 insurrection:
"They have to make the Republicans own that insurrection every day. They have to pound it. They have to call bookers on cable news shows. They have to get people to write op-eds. There will be all kinds of investigations and stories dripping out for god knows how long, and the Democrats should spend every day tying all of it to the Republican Party. They can’t sit back and wait for it to happen.
Hell, just imagine if it was a bunch of nonwhite people who stormed the Capitol. Imagine how Republicans would exploit that and make every news cycle about how the Dems are responsible for it. Every political debate would be about that. The Republicans would bludgeon the Democrats with it forever.
So whatever you think Republicans would do to us in that scenario, that’s exactly what the hell we need to do them."
On Republican Representatives Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan:
"Tell me this: How is it we have all this talk about Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and we don’t talk about Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican speaker of the House in Congress? If Hastert was a Democrat who we knew had a history of molesting kids and was actually sent to prison in 2016, he’d still be on Fox News every fucking night. The Republicans would never shut the hell up about it.
So when Jim Jordan was pulling all these stunts with Anthony Fauci [Fauci was speaking at a congressional hearing about ending coronavirus precautions], why didn’t someone jump in and say, “Let me tell you something, Jim, if Fauci knew what you knew, if he knew that a doctor was molesting young people, he would’ve gone to the medical board yesterday. So you can go ahead and shut the fuck up.” [Ed. note: Jordan denies knowing about the allegations of abuse when he was an assistant coach at Ohio State University.] I love that Congresswoman Maxine Waters told Jordan to “shut your mouth,” but that’s what I really wish a Democrat would say, and I wish they’d keep saying it over and over again."
Mr. Carville is right and Democrats and their surrogates in the press are taking on the Republicans on these issues.
Of course, Republicans with most of their refusal to impeach and convict Donald Trump and approve a bipartisan commission to examine the events of January 6, 2021, are helping them at virtually every turn.
Just read the commentary from columnists at the Washington Post on the Republican refusal to approve the commission.
Liberal writers like EJ Dionne and Dana Milbank have written sound pieces exposing Republican cowardice, hypocrisy, and spinelessness.
So have right of center columnists like Jennifer Rubin and Max Boot.
There is no place in the mainstream press that Republicans can hide their duplicity.
That is probably why CNN, CBS, ABC, PBS, and NBC have not booked either Kevin McCarthy or Mitch McConnell as guests in recent memory.
Appearing on fringe-friendly FOX commentary shows like Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson news does not count.
Democratic Leaders are finally turning up the volume.
Speaker Pelosi accused Republicans who voted against the January 6 Commission of cowardice.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called Republican leaders "spineless."
Quislings and Collaborators with traitors could be accurate descriptors as well.
Perhaps the best response from a Democrat was Ohio Representative and Senate candidate Tim Ryan. He also ran for President in 2020.
On the House Floor, he blasted Republicans for their "incoherence," some of whom had no problem spending millions of dollars on the bull fecal matter Benghazi Investigation against Hillary Clinton (you know the 2016 popular vote winner who showed up and testified for 11 hours whereas the "manly" Donald Trump hid behind lawyers when he was (still is) being investigated,) for not showing their support for Capitol Police by voting to create the commission. He also said that the country needed two political parties grounded in reality and the Republicans were currently not one of them.
Democrats need to continue to remind voters that Trump and the Republicans are the ones that:
- Enabled the behavior of the insurrectionists on January 6, 2021. Some of them may have actually aided them.
- Have obstructed the creation of a bipartisan commission even after Democrats concluded a deal with Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee.
- Are trying to rewrite the history of what happened on January 6.
- Have among their ranks two representatives (Jordan and Gaetz) that have either been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior or knowledge of others committing such acts and not doing anything about it.
In his interview with Vox, Carville rightfully states that Democrats could win more in 2022 and beyond if they fight for votes in rural areas and not give up on states like Florida.
Hopefully, Democrats will continue to heed this advice and make the case to voters that they are the ones and not the members of the former Party of Lincoln that will work for them.
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