I Hope He Fails: Okay for a Republican President?

By Bob Ellis on March 11th, 2009

James Carville (Source: The Office of James Carville)

James Carville (Source: The Office of James Carville)

As you may know, Rush Limbaugh has been castigated for stating he hopes President Barack Obama fails in socializing the United States and taking us farther away from our constitutional and limited-government roots than we have ever been before.

Democrats and their allies in the “mainstream” media have been working overtime trying to get the American people to believe Limbaugh is somehow unpatriotic for wanting a socialist president to take the nation far off course from the principles of Americanism.

But doesn’t that at the very least cut both ways?

We learned a few days ago that in a 2006 poll, a majority of Democrats were hoping President Bush–whose #1 identifiable policy issue has been the war in Iraq–would fail.

Hmmmm.

Now we learn that arch-Democrat and Clinton-man James Carville was hoping–just minutes before the 911 terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 Americans–was hoping President Bush would fail.

From Fox News: 

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

Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.

“We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I’m wanting them to turn against him,” Greenberg admitted.

Hmmmmm.

More Democrats hoping a president would fail.

And not only that, but a president who publicly declared that he wanted to move America closer to her roots than the previous president.

And Limbaugh is un-American for hoping President Obama fails in ignoring the U.S. Constitution and turning the United States into a bastion of socialist mediocrity?

Hmmmm.  Okay, I think it’s clear now.

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  • fastidious
    Ahh... James Carville. Thought that this link might be germane: http://punditkitchen.com/2008/07/01/political-p...
  • Daniel
    the rich paying 15% in taxes while the middle class pays 30% isn't socialism?

    Get a clue.
  • It might be a sort of reverse-socialism...if it were true. Do yourself a favor and check on who's paying the most taxes.

    Something like the top 50% of wage earners pay more than 90% of the taxes paid in this country. Something like 30-40% of Americans don't end up paying income tax at all.

    America was built on the idea of property rights, fairness, and all Americans being treated equally. Slamming the wealthy because they have been successful runs counter to American values...but fits right in with some of the most repressive, mediocre nations the world has seen recently.

    You owe it to yourself to get a clue, Daniel.
  • leelee1958
    Well If this doesn't beat all. We are in the midst of an "Economic 911" and we are worrying about who said what Limbaugh Carville they are both Jacka$$ let us move on. The problem is we have to stop this stupid bickering and begin to realize that we have to work together to pull us out. The president was elected and has chosen a path. We have to also choose one that will help us and our fellow citizens. Educate ourselves, stop letting other countries surpass us in education.

    Stop the stupid partisan bickering. We can be civil even if we disagree. Don't sweat the small stuff. Work toward our common good. Try to experiment with new ideas on our own. Learn something new. Read a book.

    We are a great country and we can emerge from this even better.
  • If a few more people had read a book or two, they might have realized that our Constitution doesn't allow the kind of socialism that Barack Obama sees as the only answers, and we might not have elected a socialist.

    As it is, too many people were too ignorant, and it's up to average citizens to put as much political heat on our elected representatives as possible to minimize the damage Obama and the Socialist/Democrat congress are trying to do.
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