By Ted Cohen
Democrat bad boy James Carville, arguably the gold-standard strategist behind Bill Clinton’s reaching the White House, is sounding off on Vermont’s Bernie Sanders.
The likelihood of Vermont’s senior senator winning the Democratic nomination for president in 2028 will be the subject of national pundit Mark Halperin’s guest appearance on Chronicle Conversations at 12:30 PM today on WVMT AM 620, FM 101.3 and wvmtradio.com.
The tough-talking, embittered Carville is blaming Sanders and his fellow socialists for endangering the future of the leftist movement by being too radical.
Carville saved his worst criticism for Vermont’s senior senator, blasting him as an “insurgent” figure for supposedly causing the “most catastrophic event of this century” in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss.
He argues that the “left-wing idiots” of today are similarly jeopardizing the Democratic Party’s chances, according to HuffPost.com.
“How did Trump win? I’ll tell you how, because g—–n Bernie Sanders is the reason that Donald Trump is president,” Carville said in his latest rant. “You hear me?” he said. “Listen to me.”
He claims Sanders splintered the party, weakening Hillary, by taking her on in the prelims.
Carville ‘s unhinging comes as Guy Page, editor of Vermont Daily Chronicle, has arranging a broadcast appearance of a national political analyst who’s high on Bernie’s 2028 presidential chances.
The interview, set for 12:30 PM today on Chronicle Conversations, was scheduled in the wake of Halperin boosting octogenarian Sanders’ future White House prospects.
Despite Polymarket giving Bernie only a 1 percent chance of being the next Democrat nominee, Halperin “says the political winds are blowing strong for the former Burlington mayor,” Page wrote Tuesday.
Halperin actually has a good batting average on his political predictions, unlike Carville from all accounts at this point has turned out to be a one-trick pony. Sure, he was the engine behind not only one but two Clinton presidencies, but Huff Post, typically a friendly-to-Democrats, left-leaning news outlet, says that since then he’s had two major defeats.
Carville worked for then-Sen. John Kerry’s failed run against then-President George W. Bush in 2004 and Hillary Clinton’s defeat by Trump in 2016.
He also falsely predicted Trump would lose last year’s election.