Eric Bolling Hedges His Bets, Announces He’s Done Dissing GOP Candidates

So far this week, we’ve had some interesting candor from the folks over at The Five. Monday, Kimberly Guilfoyle admitted she was worried Barack Obama already had re-election “wrapped up” and now it appears Eric Bolling is hedging his bets on who the GOP candidate would be. Last night on the show, Bolling announced he would no longer diss any of the Republican candidates, a fairly surprising statement from one of the staunchest Rick Perry supporters around.

While another Bolling comment from yesterday’s show was a bit more outwardly flashy, fans of The Five might find this one more intriguing. Anyone who’s been watching the show since its inception knows that Bolling has made no secret of his 2012 choice. He’s been a Perry guy all the way and, in addition to championing his man, he’s also been fairly dogged in his criticisms of Perry’s adversaries. While he’s always made it clear that he’ll vote for whoever goes up against Obama, time and again he’s talked smack about Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and especially Mitt Romney (he really, really, really doesn’t like Romney). And, even as Perry began to fall off, Bolling remained confident in his support. Today’s comments however, which were clearly unplanned and off-script (he interrupted the planned tease for the next segment), certainly made it seem like Bolling has finally realized that he needs to prepare himself in case Perry doesn’t make it on the ticket.

Maybe something happened to The Five crew over the holiday weekend that caused them to get really reflective and look towards the future. Were they visited by three Thanksgiving ghosts or something?

Whatever the case, this is a fairly interesting moment. The best part, though, comes when Bolling tried to list nice qualities of all the candidates. When he came to Romney (dreaded, dreaded Romney) all Eric Bolling could come up with was that the guy has “great hair.”

The strange thing is, for him that’s being generous!

Watch the clip from Fox News below. Bolling’s comments come at the beginning and at the end: