Democrat Strategist Told Reporters He Wanted Bush to Fail

Thanks to Curt at Flopping Aces...

Just a few days ago I posted on that poll from 2006 which showed (51% of) Democrats wanted Bush to fail as President.

This showed the true (blue) hypocrisy of those Democrats crying today about Rush and us Republicans (and conservatives in general) wanting Obama to fail to enact his Socialist agenda.

It gets even better. Here is (Democrat strategist) James Carville telling reporters, minutes before the attack of 9/11, that he wanted Bush to fail:

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville (now at CNN) was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: “I certainly hope he doesn’t succeed.”…

Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: “Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!”

The press followed Carville’s orders, never reporting his or Greenberg’s desire for Bush to fail. The omission was understandable at first, as reporters were consumed with chronicling the new war on terror. But months and even years later, the mainstream media chose to never resurrect those controversial sentiments, voiced by the Democratic Party’s top strategists, that Bush should fail… Read the rest of this entry »

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