Carville "Republican Party "Will be Extinct" if Hillary Clinton wins in 2016 [View all]

[JI7]

Democratic strategist and former President Bill Clinton adviser James Carville said the Republican Party knows the stakes against “presumptive” Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, declaring that if the GOP loses the 2016 presidential election the party will be pushed into extinction.

Speaking on Sunday’s ABC “This Week,” Carville discussed various scenarios that may play out in the 2016 presidential election. Carville noted that Common Core education standards will not decide who the GOP ultimately nominates, but instead how a candidate’s “electability” stacks up against Clinton’s prospective campaign representing the Democratic Party.

“Everybody is going to have a poll showing how they fare in the general election against Hillary,” said Carville. “That is going to be — they’re not going to not nominate somebody because of common core, just me. The party knows — and I use this word advisedly — that if it loses the 2016 presidential election, the Republican Party as we know it today will be extinct, it will.”

“We heard that in 2008,” Laura Ingraham interjected.

“This will be the sixth out of seventh election they’ve lost the popular vote,” continued Carville. “The Republicans want to win this. And they will do – that’s going to be the biggest issue in January 2016. ‘I can beat Hilllary Clinton. We have to win this election.”

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/04/14/carville-republican-party-will-be-extinct-if-hillary-clinton-wins-in-2016/

i wonder if this is why Jeb has been toning things down a bit. he wants to rise in the general election polls so he can use that as why he should be the nominee in the primary.