James Carville – Democrats held to higher standard, can’t lie like Republicans
James Carville went on a podcast and had Ryan Lizza as a guest. Carville said that people asked him why Democrats don’t just lie like the Republicans. Carville responded that Democrats are held to a higher standard of credibility and thus can’t get away with lying like the Republicans.
From Fox News:
Democratic political strategist James Carville expressed frustration with the state of his party on his podcast Thursday, arguing that Republicans are able to get away with lying while Democrats are held to a higher standard of credibility.
Talking to guest Ryan Lizza, a journalist, he said, “People say to me all the time, ‘James, why don’t we just do like the Republicans do? Just stand up and lie?’ Because our f—ing people wouldn’t stand for it!” Carville said. “If I stood up and lied, you would be the first person to say, ‘James Carville lost all credibility last night when he said X, Y and Z.'”
Carville, a longtime political talking head, was a top strategist for former President Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign.
“Yeah, I can spin,” Carville continued. “I can shade. Everybody does that. They just look you right in the eye and lie!” He added, “And then our people say, ‘We ought to lie like them!’ No, we shouldn’t! ‘Cause they would not do that. It would not go over well.”
President Clinton was impeached in 1998 by the House of Representatives on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice connected to his testimony about a relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
The issue of authenticity came up more recently during the 2024 election. A new book claimed Democrats had major concerns about former President Joe Biden’s decline and cognitive abilities ahead of his June debate against President Donald Trump, despite publicly maintaining that the former president was fit to serve another four years.
On the podcast, Carville also tore into President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, accusing him of pushing other countries into closer relations with “an odious country like China” because they can’t predict US trade strategy.
Additional Reading:
Clark, J. (2025, May 3). James Carville says Democrats can’t afford to lie like ‘Republicans do’ because they would lose credibility. Fox News. Link.
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That boy just ain’t right.
If Democrats lied like the Republicans they wouldn’t get elected because they’re so much better at lying. Of course they have the media covering up for them.
Yep. The DeMSM covers for the DildoCrats the way a cat covers turds in a litterbox. And it’s just as stinky.
Who holds them to this mythical standard of “credibility”?
Can’t be had for its own sake; any f*cker who goes on about it is a con artist.
Democrats held to a higher standard, and don’t lie like republicans. That is the funniest thing I have heard in many years. This is typical demcrat speak. Accuse the republicans of what the dems do, their sheeple will believe it.
Proof of concept was the Joe Biden Presidency.
The Autopen never lied!
“Credibility”? Well, since the Democrats got to redefine the meaning of recession and woman, the entire language is up for revision.
Are there 67 different versions of credibility just like genders?
Smeagol can “credibility” *this*.
They redefined vaccine, too …
Guy gives me the creeps every time I see his face.
The movie Deliverance comes to mind.
Or…
I just realized looking at this clip, James Carvel is the evil dwarf. He just had to be himself for the screen test. No acting on his part required. Amazing !
The democrat controlled media says he is 6 feet tall.
That can’t be true, because the pictures show him about 3 feet tall and blue skinned with bulging eyes. With a nasty demeanor.
Don’t forget when he finds a ring:
…and breathes fire with x-ray vision, or something.
Yeah, sure. Whatever.
When Dems scream “respect the science” then drone about 72 genders…
I just tune them out. Carville is enter The Biden Zone of yelling at clouds and thinking he’s saying something profound.
As fine a case of psychological projection as I’ve read all year (so far).
D-rats are 24K projection in everything they say about the Conservative side of the proverbial aisle, they are what they accuse us of being!
Let’s just respond with “51 intelligence officials say that Hunter Biden’s laptop is fake.” Of course, they will respond with “The said bears the marking”. True, but none of them examined the laptop.
Five phony pics would be a Hallmark. 5000 pics of dude smoking crack and getting with his cousins is as real as it gets.
If it weren’t for double standards, Democrats would have no standards at all.
If it wasn’t for bacteria, liberals would have no culture at all!
And sadly, my comment that he is one of the brightest SOBs in the party still stands. But it is a really, really low bar.
Low bar, like on the ground low or is it elevated just a bit.
Just try to limbo under that one.
Ashamed to say that he is a fellow Marine. Ugly and creepy looking as hell but a Marine, nonetheless. Maybe I should spell Marine with a lowercase “m” when referring to old James.
Like a lot of people he was drafted because he flunked out of college. He then did two years at Pendleton.
Decades later he led the defense of Clinton’s draft dodging.
Clown.
Every once in a while, Snakehead says something semi-intelligent. This isn’t one of those times.
HA!
Still waiting on all the empirical evidence that the commie dems have, but have never shown anyone.
One might make a substantial case that Democrats do not lie like Republicans but are in fact far better at it than Republicans as the media aids and abets their nonsense on a regular basis. Anyone who had seen Biden speak during his tenure as VP versus that catastrophe of the 2019 campaign knew very well that something was off with the man. They spent the entirety of his presidency lying about his capabilities and when it was finally revealed on national TV just how bad he had become they turned on the poor man like he was some kind of pariah.
Ms. Pelosi pretending that her husband is the the only human in history to out perform the best traders on Wall Street for years is another outrageous lie told over and over…
Pretending a man who left a woman to drown while he went home. slept off his drunkenness, and then called his lawyer before reporting the accident is worthy of being named the Lion of the Senate is a decades long lie told over and over to attempt to make it true…
One could go on, and on, and on and so forth but let’s not pretend that Democrats have a “higher” standard of truth…because that is the biggest lie of all.
They are certainly willing to participate in the lie if they think there is something in it for them.
And that Blow-Job Willie didn’t beat up woman and put cigars on their heads whilst getting a hummer?
Stay out of politics and stick to ice cream carvelle..
…or trying to steal enchanted rings from hobbits, whichever.
Fudgie the Whale!!!
They subscribe to the George Constanza philosophy: It’s not a lie, if you believe it.
Ahh yes, “That Guy” who demeaned every accuser of “Blowjob Willie” Clinton during his years in Office, “Just drag a $100 bill through a trailer court and see what you get!” was his most famous quote, and remember the “Bimbo Eruption Squad” that Das Hildebeast had at the ready, paid for with our tax dollars, …
Well, bless his heart.
Yall be kind to Skeletor. If you were the Hildebeast’s lapdog, you’d have issues too.
Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
The cheese slid off of James Carville’s cracker years ago.
Thank God as a Demot he can’t lie either.
Here he tells us he was born on the day of the WWII Battle of Lady Gulf, where Kamikazes were used for the first time. This lessor known battle took place the same day as the Leyte Gulf.
He then tells us he was afraid of being shot at while a Marine serving during the Vietnam War. Since the closest he ever got to Vietnam was San Diego on weekend liberty you can see what a close call that one was.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/08/carville_you_should_be_scared_things_we_didnt_think_were_imaginable_are_now_playing_out_every_day.html