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

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by Jon Bershad | 10:38 am, November 30th, 2011

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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:

Anonymous

Eric realizes the Republicans have some good choices, and the poor Dems have no choice.

They must draw straws on this program for seating. Draw the short one and you’re sitting next to Beckel.
The Real Royal Emperor

Maybe Sammon has decided it’s time for FOX “News” to move beyond Herb, Ambassador Hunstmann, Mad Michelle, Dr. Paul, Sanitarium and Tollbooth and focus on the losers who might be able to win?
Anonymous

“Eric realizes the Republicans have some good choices…”

Where have they been hiding all this time? Bring ‘em on!
Anonymous

I think Gloves here (or should I call you the father/uncle of WCinWI) is talking about choices like going to Europe instead of running for President. Maybe taking a Carnival Cruise. Perhaps the Republicans can choose to learn Spanish instead of running anyone for President, though that is a little too close to granting amnesty.
http://twitter.com/Samuel_Bun Samuel_Bun

Eric Bolling Hedges His Bets, Announces He’s Opening a GOP Kissing Booth.

Go to a horse race bet all horses and you will win.
Anonymous

Odd, you would almost think that Mr. Bolling has something riding on a Republican Candidate being successful in the election.

Fair and balanced indeed.
http://twitter.com/jungasaysfam Jenna

I think that Eric FINALLY realized that Perry isn’t going to pass muster with independents and some conservatives (like me) because there ain’t NO WAY he can win against the Obama 2012 money making machine. I think that is a smart move on his part. Go Eric! :)
Anonymous

Don’t worry Eric. Thinking people will diss them for you. Regardless of party affiliation. That’s thinking people Gloves, Stonepark, Michelle, et al. Y’all are exempt. HA!
Anonymous

The Republicans have such good choices that tied in first place are those who are ‘undecided’….

Even Conservative pundits admit the selection is poor, looks like you’re on your own with this one.
Anonymous

this just sounds like when Al Sharpton said he would not criticize Obama and I even think Eric Bolling had a segment on his show talking about it and showing how bias MSNBC was in hiring him, well what a damn hypocrite, i agreed with Eric when he talked about Al Sharpton not going to criticize Obama and now he wont criticize the GOP. This is why i hate these politicians and these opinionated hacks on “news” channels. I would take people like Sean Hannity more serious if he could ever criticize republicans as much and as throughly as he does democrats, i would take Ed Schultz more serious if he could criticize democrats as much as republicans, until then them and the others are just arguing the same things but about a different political party which shows democrats and republicans are pretty much the same, both sides have liars, cheaters, greedy people, racist etc… This country truly needs another George Washington.
http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

Who is this Eric Bolling guy… is he someone who is relevant??
Anonymous

Bolling will now join Orly Taitz, Rick Perry, half of the New Hampshire Republican legislature and Donald Trump on the upcoming “Birther” tour. Coming to a town near you!
http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

“Eric realizes the Republicans have some good choices”

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

The choices are so good that there’s a new front runner every week.
http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

I was going to ask the same thing.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Henrique/100001444848962 Ed Henrique

No One cares about what this idiot has to say.

Fox News = Fake News.
Anonymous

When Al Sharpton made a similar announcement about Obama the teabaggers went apeshit.

Now?

Not so much.
Anonymous

Is this idiot even human.
Anonymous

Bolling, like the rest of Fox News, is coming to the realization that the leading GOP contenders are so weak that they should be protected from friendly fire. Bolling and Fox may be biased, but they’re not irrational.