Carville Claims to Have Raised $30 Million for Michigan redo (Video)

[Rufus2007]

James Carville on CNN "American Morning" today said that he, Gov. Jon Corzine and Gov. Ed Rendell made an offer to pay the entire Michigan Democratic primary revote with $30 million they raised. Claims the Obama camp declined offer. Previously in March, they had only offered to pay for half the costs.

http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2643

[NJSecularist]

1. Obama has some explaining to do if he declined the offer. n/t

[SurfingAtWork]

4. Right, because it would make a ton of sense to submit yourself to an election that was funded by

your opponents.

[SoonerPride]

13. Michigan law made it a moot point anyway.

The only option that would include all Dems was a caucus, which the Clinton camp nixed from the get go.

Primary participation for Dems who crossed over to vote in the Repug primary (since they were told by clinton herself the MI primary meant nothing) made them ineligible to vote in a re-do.

That was a non-starter.

Case closed.

[tridim]

10. How about, "We don't live in the former Soviet Union"?

:eyes:

[hokies4ever]

12. Independents would have been denied the ability to participate in the revote

This concern was noted by Obama's campaign. Also, there were legal questions concerning privately funding elections. Particularly that the state government is not allowed to share voter information with private companies. This was the main stumbling block for a FL revote.

[SoonerPride]

15. Not just independents, but Dems who voted in the Repug primary were out of luck too.

There was no way anyone would agree to the disenfranchisement of Democrats.

[NJSecularist]

16. The Obamites have no problem disenfranchising voters in caucus states.

Why is that?

[hokies4ever]

20. How much money did you flush down the drain donating to Hillary?

:rofl:

Bad investment, get over it already. You're one of the biggest Hill-whiners on this board. :rofl:

[dionysus]

37. thats a nice lie you keep pushing...

[movonne]

17. Really .... he doesn't have to explain anything...it's over and Obama

will be president..it is called winning the primary..

[Skwmom]

18. You don't reward rule breakers by letting them vote LAST, thus letting them have an ELEVATED say in

determining the nominee.

That would create utter CHAOS in future primaries.

[hokies4ever]

26. That presumes that the Dem Party will exist after 2008

which Hillary will not accept, since she's obviously trying to rip it apart. :rofl:

[Skwmom]

32. Did you see her political hack on MSNBC today saying that the

Democratic Party doesn't deserve to win if they can't unite (it's the second time I've heard him say this)? Yet the Clintons and their hacks are doing their best to try to fracture the party.

[hokies4ever]

34. Do you know who said this?

[Heather MC]

27. Obama didn't create this problem the polticians for FL and MI

Did
Why do Hillary supporters buy into this bullshit that Obama should fix it? FL and MI leaders took a vote and after being warned what WOULD happen the ignored the warning, and voted to movethe primaries

Obama had nothing to do with that, niether did Hillbilly.

They ALL knew before the start of this contest they had to win with 48 states, Obama did Hillbilly didn't and even if they were seated AS IS
SHE STILL CAN'T WIN

Hillbilly may be in the habit of blowing millions of Dollars but Obama has proven he is a lot smarter with money and a revote is major waste of money, which is why both states refused to waste money with a re-vote. So why should they

[Occam Bandage]

2. I'd like to see the terms of the offer, and the Obama camp's actual response and rationale.

[hokies4ever]

14. It's Hill-logic

She claims to have made an offer to the state legislature and she blames Obama for not supporting her offer. Hardly the same as a rejection. I'm sure it was a fair offer too. :rofl:

[Heather MC]

30. I am sure they filed that Offer in the same place they filed Hillbilly's demand for a debate.

File 13 :rofl:

[Bad Thoughts]

22. If there were any offer ...

... it was probably full of contingencies and oddities that required Obama's approval. If it were just a matter of handing over the money to the state to run the election, Obama's campaign would not have a say.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Carville can take his corrupt "mean green" from Clinton donors & SHOVE IT where the sun don't shine.

:nuke:

[pompano]

19. Carville should take that....

"moolah" and put it into Katrina Relief? Naturally that doesn't follow "her turn" script. Scrub that.

[bunnies]

5. Maybe they should use that money to pay off Hillarys debts.

Rather than try to buy her an election.

[SoonerPride]

6. The point wasn't who paid for it, but the disenfranchisement of Dem voters who voted in the Repug

primary.

Dem voters were told that their vote wouldn't count, so many crossed over to do their own "operation chaos" in the RNC primary.

Those voters would then be excluded, by Michigan law, from actually voting in the Democratic primary.

That is a non-starter.

[tularetom]

7. I was hoping Carville had dried up when he was exposed to sunlight

but no such luck I guess.

[Webster Green]

8. Be careful what you wish for..

Obama might just kick her ass in Michigan. In any event he's gonna kick her ass in the primary either way. :smoke:

[Max_powers94]

23. He has kicked-dd her ass...this is over to me

[Aloha Spirit]

9. I for one am glad that James "Our Brand is Crisis" Carville is running around the country, trying to

stir the pot.

Anything to keep him away from democratic elections in other countries like Bolivia.

[4themind]

11. Put his money where his mouth is

where's the proof that they raised that much? During which time period was this offered? From what I've read one of the arguments that was used for not approving the revote was because the funding for the revote was not on hand BEFORE the measure was to be approved. For those dems that espouse fiscal responsibility and pay-as-you-go that would probably set a bad precedent.It's one thing to offer to pay for it, it's another to actually have the money IN HAND before you seek approval for another primary. So he's claiming that they HAD the money to pay for the primary, well in light of contradictory reports, I'd like to see the proof for his claim before I fall down on one side or the other.

[AllentownJake]

21. 30 million dollars?

Like the 10 million they raised the day after PA.

They are liars. Proven liars.

[cbc5g]

24. Lets do em both next weekend, Obama will still win the nomination easily n/t

[slinkerwink]

25. it's not ethical to pay for your own election. That's up to the state party or the DNC

[ShortnFiery]

28. When has "BREAKING the DNC rules" or "being unethical" ever stopped HRC and her surrogates?

:puke:

[slinkerwink]

29. nope. And that's how they'd treat the Constitution if in power.

[Barack_America]

31. Yeah, I'm sure they offered to pay for it, complete with ballots pre-printed with Clinton votes.

I don't trust a word coming from that man's mouth.

[butterfly77]

33. They have been saying this since around the time of the pennsylvania primaries...

and I have been suspicious every since then, the governor here jumps on screen everytime I look around spouting her support for Hillary along with certain other legislators who have set up this mess in the beginning. I don't trust them because they want it too much and people have changed their minds since then. They need to follow the rules.

[Rufus2007]

35. Wonder how they came up with it...

I think they only offered to pay for half of it around the time of Pennsylvania. Thirty million is a lot of money to come up with out of thin air.

[papapi]

36. Carville sucks donkey you-know-whats. MI voters had an opportunity to vote...

...and their plotitcians FUGGED it all up. (misspelling intentional)