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James Carville: Rick Perry Is The Worst Presidential Candidate In American History

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Rick Perry‘s devastating fifth-place finish in the Iowa caucus, despite his early buzz and spending the most money in the state, prompted CNN political commentator James Carville to call his campaign the worst in American history. “Rick Perry is the worst presidential campaign, candidate in American history,” Carville boldly declared, spurring loud disagreement with his fellow panelists.

“In American history?” an incredulous Anderson Cooper exclaimed.

Watch The Entire CNN Team Lose It At 1:30 AM Waiting For Iowa Results

Roland Martin suggested Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani were worse, but Carville stood his ground.

“Who is worse? He was on fire. He was on fire for a while. There’s nobody that had worse debates than he did. There was nobody that raised more money to less effect,” Carville explained. “Not Giuliani, not Fred Thompson, not John Connally, not anybody — given the expectations of where he started… I’m sorry, he was the worst ever.”

Martin compared the candidates to star college football players who disappointed in the NFL.

“Rick Perry is Ryan Leaf. Rudy Giuliani is certainly JaMarcus Russell,” Martin said.

Carville surmised the audience wouldn’t know what he was talking about.

Watch Carville’s bold assessment of the Perry campaign below via CNN:

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  • Gloves Jesse Donahue

    James Carville: Rick Perry Is The Worst Presidential Candidate In American History

    So the Ragin’ Cajun has never heard of Chris Dodd?

  • Gloves Jesse Donahue

    Hey G.J.  Heard on the Internet that King Obama will be abdicating soon so that economic conditions will improve. Then he can launch his new venture, Barry’s Party Planners ( a non union enterprise).

  • Anonymous

    Wrong James….Walter Mondale has that honor…

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    Anyone else think of the character ‘Gollum’ when you listen and look at James?

  • Anonymous

    or Kucinich….

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    James has placed Parry in the correct relative location. Certainly some candidates managed to be far worse. Burr shot Hamilton straight through for prides sake.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    Rick Perry is probably the worst American in history, much less Presidential candidate.  What’s with the deep fissures all over his ugly mug?  He’s hiding some horrible secrets in there, no doubt.  It’ll be hilarious to see how hamstrung in TX he’ll be now.  The illusion of Rick’s minimal competence has been utterly shattered.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    Ha.  Nobody takes Kucinich for a serious Prez candidate.  Perry was the wingnut wet dream who turned out to be a massive premature ejac. for you folks.

  • Anonymous

    You heard wrong, Gloves. Obama has been picked to star in an upcoming reality show. It is called the “GOP Beat Down”. It will be playing on all the news channels. Even FAUX News will feature it prominently. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    No doubt.  I can’t wait to watch Santorum spew his froth forth all over Romnoid.   Limbaugh’s going to be jerking for Santorum, big time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    Ha.  Nobody takes Kucinich for a serious Prez candidate.  Perry was the wingnut wet dream who turned out to be a massive premature ejac. for you folks.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    You’ve got to admit, that Gardasil vaccine made Perry retarded

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Dodd was, indeed, a very poor candidate. And, Carville neglects to mention that if the Half-Baked Alaskan had run for president, she would have been the worst candidate in American history.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    Perry makes Palin look like Thomas Edison.  But neither one ever wears shoes with laces.

  • Anonymous

    Really Jim? The worst?

    http://mothball.runcynthiarun.org/

  • Anonymous

    HA!…the second Kucininch said he got abducted by aliens, he became a moonbat wetdream, that I’m sure made folks like you ejaculate multiple times…

  • Anonymous

    Well Jeffrey, I’m sure your assessment of who the worst American in History is will surely hold weight.  And since were on the topic of secrets, surely your stomach turns every time you think about Obama’s real estate deals in Chi-town, or his unwillingness to release any record of his alleged academic accolades, or refusal to release records of who visits the white-house, etc…. right?

  • Anonymous

    You make a lot of references to masturbation for some reason there Jeffrey……. maybe you should head over to Obama’s campaign website and release some of your “tension”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    Rick’s swaggering back to Texas to reassess whether he’s up for getting clowned for another few weeks.  Let’s all have a massive prayer session and hope he is!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    Perry is the one who got abducted by aliens; illegal ones.  When he said his “don’t have a heart” pratfall line, he dropped like Texas cow pie.  He should have just said he’d “slit all their throats and dance in their blood”.  It would have made him the darling of the GOP.

  • Anonymous

    Then what’s Obama make Perry look like?

    Facts are, when the economy was bleeding jobs, Texas was creating them using the exact opposite policies of Obama.  So, the implication is that Obama’s smart.  So, truly, how smart do you have to be to do this bad?

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Whew, for a second I was worried you thought Perry was bad.  Personally, I hate that guy Parry.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    Meh.  Don’t feed me the line about Texas’ outsized job creation- tell it to the GOP voters who couldn’t care less about it.

  • Anonymous

    Good call.  I forgot the typical liberal mantra: ideology before all.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Hate is the wrong emotion IMHO.  He is unwise.  I am sure he could tend a local bar well.  

  • Anonymous

    Michael Dukakis. He actually promised to raise everyone’s taxes. Not a great selling point.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeffrey-Edelman/1051570527 Jeffrey Edelman

    Enough of dancing on this madcap campaigners grave.  Let the miracle worker get back to Lone Star and have some well-deserved rest at N!g*erhead.

  • Walt

    Just because Carville, who makes a living spewing out hot air, say so doesn’t make it so.  Nonetheless, Perry, as we all found out once he left Texass (if you were paying attention), is one pretty pathetic candidate.  But the bigger question is how this ultimate Texassan pay to play politician has gotten re-elected so many times in Texass (with my regards to Austin).  And on a side note… How bout them Cowboys!?

  • RW

    And this from the author of:
    40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation by James Carville  May 5, 2009

    Then came the midterm election of 2010. 

    Possibly the worst political prognosticator ever.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    I doubt that it James. However, I recall seeing and listening to Perry before he announced on his book tour. Perry was really impressive, had swagger and looked larger than life. But, after he had his debate debacles, no matter that he rebounded somewhat, he really looked small after that. I don’t think after those moments Perry even wanted to stick around, but he wasn’t a quitter like, lets say Palin. I don’t think Perry even wanted to run, but when the right wing of the party couldn’t find a their brand of a conservative, they pressured Perry into getting into the race.

  • Anonymous

    Poor old Rick Perry…

    Must have been those challenging empty air moments in debates!

  • http://twitter.com/fan386 John Doe

    god.. these arseholes dont know if Perry was THEE worst in American History.. How far back are they going?

  • Anonymous

    I’m going to defend Perry here:
    Being the worse presidential candidate in American history is preferred to being the worst President in American history like George W. Bush.

  • Anonymous

    As unwise as he is, he sure seems to be doing a better job governing than another person.

  • Anonymous

    The pay-to-play method has worked fantastically in Illinios for decades, unless you get thrown in jail,

  • Anonymous

    I don’t know if he was the worst, maybe just over his head.  It had been fairly easy in TX for his to keep his job.  Campaigning for president was just too much for him.

    I’m glad he’s leaving the contest.  It is just better for him.

    Heard Bachmann is leaving.  Now, that is good for us!!

  • Anonymous

    About 5 months…

  • Anonymous

    Has everyone forgotten Alan Keyes?

  • Anonymous

    Perry/Palin 2012.

  • Anonymous

    Sorry, James. Perry has been a pretty awful candidate but only one Presidential candidate, as I can remember, had their hopes dashed when they could not even come up with a coherent answer for the question, “why do you want to be President?” ….. That candidate was Ted Kennedy. That moment stands up to just about any of Rick Perry’s “brain farts.”

  • Anonymous

    Unemployment rate in Texas is just about the national average…what’s that mean?

  • Walt

    HA!… Kucininch would still be better than anything the you rightees have to offer, smuggee.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Hatefbook-Shwn/100002596815351 Hatefbook Shwn

    Mr Perry was supposed to be the great republican hope he has turned into the great republican nightmare.ron paul supporters must be somewhere setting fires like that 1 white dude in LA.Who did more damage by himself than what was done during the LA riots

  • Anonymous

    Actually, that one’s quite easy.  Here’s something that went full detail on it 
    http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1590

    But if that’s too much, a more condensed explanation: their population has absolutely exploded compared to any other state because of other people looking for work.  Had they not come, the unemployment rate would be closer to 2.3% at the time of it.

  • Walt

    Perhaps that kind of corruption is just more acceptable in Texas, smuggee

  • Anonymous

    If by ‘creating jobs’ you mean leading the nation in the growth of jobs that pay minimum wage with no benefits while also siphoning jobs away from neighboring states, you’d be right.

  • david r

    Carville’s analysis reminds me of the old movies where the U-boat captain surfaces and machine-guns the survivors in the water.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    OOPS…

    Of jobs created in Texas since 2007, 81 percent were taken by newly arrived immigrant workers (legal and illegal).
    In terms of numbers, between the second quarter of 2007, right
    before the recession began, and the second quarter of 2011, total
    employment in Texas increased by 279,000. Of this, 225,000 jobs went to
    immigrants (legal and illegal) who arrived in the United States in 2007
    or later.
    Of newly arrived immigrants who took a job in Texas, 93 percent were
    not U.S. citizens. Thus government data show that more than
    three-fourths of net job growth in Texas were taken by newly arrived
    non-citizens (legal and illegal).
    The large share of job growth that went to immigrants is surprising
    because the native-born accounted for 69 percent of the growth in Texas’
    working-age population (16 to 65). Thus, even though natives made up
    most of the growth in potential workers, most of the job growth went to
    immigrants.
    The share of working-age natives holding a job in Texas declined
    significantly, from 71 percent in 2007 to 67 percent in 2011. This
    decline is very similar to the decline for natives in the United States
    as a whole and is an indication that the situation for native-born
    workers in Texas is very similar to the overall situation in the country
    despite the state’s job growth.
    Of newly arrived immigrants who took jobs in Texas since 2007, we
    estimate that 50 percent (113,000) were illegal immigrants. Thus, about
    40 percent of all the job growth in Texas since 2007 went to newly
    arrived illegal immigrants and 40 percent went to newly arrived legal
    immigrants.
    Immigrants took jobs across the educational distribution. More than
    one out three (97,000) of newly arrived immigrants who took a job had at
    least some college.
    http://cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas

  • Anonymous

    that was a really stupid comment, but your pathetic attempt at irony and humor vis a vis your screen name prepped me a bit

  • Anonymous

    the only way a smug fool like you could get into Harvard is as part of a cleaning crew

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    I previously posted these stats for him.
    http://cis.org/immigrants-filled-most-new-jobs-in-Texas

  • Anonymous

    Not to defend the Nazis, but U boat commanders never did that.

  • Anonymous

    So, you were unable to read this 
    http://www.politicalmathblog.com/?p=1590 which I posted 5 minutes before you did?  While at it, please explain why their hourly wages have gone up 6th fastest in the nation?

  • Anonymous

    I doubt perry is the worst, at least he provided us with endless laughs.

  • Anonymous

    OOPS…

    The CIS report, which is based on Current Population Survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, uses two distinct methodologies to measure how much of the state’s job growth went to immigrants between mid-2007 and mid-2011.The first methodology compares the net employment increase with the number of newly arrived immigrants holding a job. By that yardstick, newly arrived immigrants accounted for 29 percent of the growth in Texas’ working age population (ages 16 to 65) between mid-2007 and mid-2011. But they accounted for about 81 percent of the overall increase in employment.The second methodology compares the net increase in employment with the net increase in immigrant employment. According to that measure, the increase in the number of working-age immigrants accounted for 31 percent of the increase in the state’s overall working-age population between mid-2007 to mid-2011. But they accounted for about 54 percent of employment growth.Pia Orrenius, an economist and immigration expert at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, called the first methodology “misleading.”“You’re comparing gross inflows to net job creation,” she said. “You have to compare net to net.”Orrenius said the second methodology was more reliable. As for finding that immigrants accounted for about half the employment increase, that’s “typical for the nation” she said.http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/09/study-pins-much-of-texas-job-g.html OOPS…Using CIS’ methodology for counting the impact of immigration on jobs it might be said that immigrants were responsible for 169 percent of net business creation in Texas in 2007 and 2008.Lastly, the CIS study notes that Texas’ current unemployment rate isn’t much better than the national average. However, it is important to point out that Texas has received an inflow of 781,542 domestic job seekers and their families in the past 10 years, with that number accelerating more recently. This has acted to inflate the unemployment rate in Texas. On the other end of the ledger, Americans moving to Texas in search of a better life have acted to reduce the unemployment rate of states such as New York and Massachusetts where 1,570,310 and 328,695 people, respectively, have moved out. This latter point has been largely ignored in the national debate about the impact on jobs that policies on taxes, regulations and the legal climate have.http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2011-10-PB45-TexasModel-WhoReallyGetsTexasJobs-CFP-ChuckDeVore.pdf

  • http://twitter.com/Brett_Cottrell Brett Cottrell

    I’m not sure if he’s the worst – his plan to fix the debt by selling Texas to China was pretty good – but he’s pretty close.

  • david r

    I know.  During the war there were many Hollywood movies like Action in the North Atlantic that were basically propaganda.  The U-boat captains are heartless murderers, blah blah blah.  There is even a cool British film from that era that shows a sailor shooting the anti-aircraft gun up to the moment where the waves cover the sinking ship.

  • david r

     You’ve given him the cruelest cut of all.  In Texas, if you can’t be the best, you can only take pride in being the absolute worst.  Viz., 2005 Astros vs. Chicago White Sox.  Astros were the worst Series team ever. (Swelling with pride.)

  • Anonymous

    “So, you were unable to read this 
    http://www.politicalmathblog.c… which
    I posted 5 minutes before you did?  While at it, please explain why
    their hourly wages have gone up 6th fastest in the nation?”

    Could have gone without you implying illiteracy on my part but hey, to each their own.  If you want to act like a snarky troll, so be it.

    This data set shows incomplete information.  Or, at the least, the website presenting it (politicalmathblog) is doing so dishonestly.  The thing about averages is that they are incredibly sensitive to extreme outliers, i.e: millionaires and billionaires.   

    Wage statistics take into account the wages of everyone.  This includes the highest wage earners.  As such, a large increase in the number of people making millions a year can jerk that average up.  Interestingly enough, that’s exactly what happened in Texas. 

    http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/2010/09/millionaires_in_texas_-_who_knew.html

    “Texas moved up two spots, to 26th, on a list ranking states based on
    the percentage of millionaire households, gaining nearly 35,000
    millionaires in the process.  Despite its mid-pack ranking, in raw numbers Texas has the third-most
    millionaires of any state, with 381,165. Texas’ wealth-mongers are
    nipping at the heels of New York, where 381,197 rich residents reside.”

    Where did these millionaires come from?  Parsimoniously, one would have to assume that they moved from other states, considering that the idea of 35,000 people within the state of Texas alone being able to become millionaires during the worst economic conditions in almost a century is incredibly improbable.

  • Anonymous

    I think we need to get a credible liberals opinion like Rosie O or Joy Behar…oh wait…there is no such thing as a credible liberal!!

  • Anonymous

    “Despite its mid-pack ranking, in raw numbers Texas has the third-most millionaires of any state, with 381,165. Texas’ wealth-mongers are nipping at the heels of New York, where 381,197 rich residents reside.”"

    This, by the way, is the most important sentence in the article.  If Texas has the 3rd most millionaires, why are they so small a percentage of the population that it pushes the state down to 26th?  It could be two things:

    1. Texas has a massive population.  However, so do California and New York, yet they rank higher than Texas in percentage of millionaires.

    2.  There is significant income inequality in Texas.  However, it’s important to note that this metric only measures percentage of millionaires, it does not measure the percentage of people making minimum wage and above.

  • http://twitter.com/ColinSJackson Colin S. Jackson

    Last time I checked Texas took a nice chunk of money. It covered its entire deficit not with spending cuts but with a good ole’ fashioned, Obama-crafted, Washington bankroll. So there you have it.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for mentioning this.

  • Anonymous

    Your probably right, seeing how when pay-to-play politics is brought up, Illinois is the standard bearer that all others are compared to.

    Great point Walt…

  • Anonymous

    For the article you post to be true, then you or the writer has to show that there are jobs waiting for these people – they just haven’t gotten them yet.  Where does it show the disconnect between the employment rate and jobs?  For your post to mean something, it must show that jobs are out there – the 8.2% unemployed just haven’t found them…

  • Anonymous

    First off, sorry, I assumed you saw it and just ignored it.  Anyways…

    One of the problems I have is that while Texas has the third largest amount of millionaires, they also have a much larger population compared to other states.  So, they would need to make exponentially more to spread out even more which is why they’re still at 26.  Additionally, a lot of the top 10 states with the highest percentage of millionaires still increased a lot.
    But I will concede at least one of the points you’re making, if not inadvertently: Texas is attracting business in a big way.  The CEO of CKE Restaurants, Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s among others, stated that he purposefully chose to build I think it was, 1,000 restaurants in Texas over the next few years because the business climate in Texas is so much better than, say, California where they are not expanding.

  • Anonymous

    Your opinion on what is pathetic, or on anything else for that matter,  could not be more irrelevant to me.  And to get your fill on stupid comments I invite you to read every single one of Jeffrey Edelman’s posts, or your own moronic drivel….

  • Anonymous

    Nobody’s perfect.

  • Anonymous

    If your gonna dodge a the point, at least try to do it more discretely….even garden variety idiots similar to yourself could see through that last flimsey attempt you just made. 

    Anyway, since your brought up the topic of “Getting into Harvard” …care to tell me how Obama did it?

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    That’s absurd for reasons easily discovered by the curious in this age of information. Your not incurious are you snow?

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    How about the Howard Dean scream?

  • Anonymous

    “First off, sorry, I assumed you saw it and just ignored it.  Anyways…”

    It’s cool!  I apologize for the push back.  You know as well as I do that this community is laden with people who have no goal but to piss off others.  Sorry for lumping you in with them.

    “One
    of the problems I have is that while Texas has the third largest amount
    of millionaires, they also have a much larger population compared to
    other states.  So, they would need to make exponentially more to spread
    out even more which is why they’re still at 26.” 

    This is a point that I address in a follow up comment earlier.  I’m sure you’re seeing it now.  Ultimately, my point is that a cursory glance at wage averages does not give us any indication of WHY Texas has an average wage of $15 and HOW it happened.  As such, I was particularly taken aback by how quickly the author of Political Math was willing to extrapolate a conclusion with such little actual data.  I don’t know him well enough to accurately assume that he did so because the conclusion fit his narrative, but that seems like the case considering that he seems to have a great grasp at interpreting statistics otherwise.

    “But I will concede at least one of the points you’re
    making, if not inadvertently: Texas is attracting business in a big
    way.  The CEO of CKE Restaurants, Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s among others,
    stated that he purposefully chose to build I think it was, 1,000
    restaurants in Texas over the next few years because the business
    climate in Texas is so much better than, say, California where they are
    not expanding.”

    Yep.  Texas is attracting businesses.  That’s not really new news.  And yes, it is largely due to the extremely lax regulations and lack of a state income tax.

  • Anonymous

    You’re*  lol

    Anyways, of course, it’s an absurd argument, but if we’re looking at who’s curious or not.  Let’s look at Obama.  He believes he knows what’s right, end of story.  Disagree with him?  You clearly don’t want what’s best for this country.  Think something needs to be reconsidered?  You’re probably a racist.  He left his inquisitive mind at communist day camp.  Run a business and think you know how to spend you’re money better than Obama?  Clearly, you’re unpatriotic.  None of that has been working, but still, Obama’s right.

    Rick Perry, on the other hand, seems to have a more hands off approach letting people do what they will with their money and that seems to be working in Texas.

  • Anonymous

    no way was Perry the worst-no one could top Herman Cain for sheer arrogance and ignorance of
    anything important-and then there’s Michele Bachmann -and of course Ron Paul-so in order of
    incompetence Cain number one-no contest-shake up the list on the others-remember MB won
    the Iowa straw poll and Cain the Florida straw poll which goes to show you can fool some of
    the people some of the time but at some point even those folks wake up and say what was
    I thinking?

  • Pablo

    Don’t bother me with the facts!

  • Pablo

    Hey, Perry inherited his job from Bush too. And you never hear him whining about it. Results matter.  

  • Anonymous

    HA!, The fact that you think Kucinich would be better at anything other than writing sci-fi novels versus a governer with one of the best state economies in the country is hilarious!..Walt.

  • Pablo

    You suck at this. Come back when you’re better.

  • Pablo

    Al Sharpton has to take the cake. But old Lizard Head could never pick a Democrat.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    “You’re* lol”
    –Of course…my error.
    “He believes he knows what’s right, end of story. Disagree with him? You clearly don’t want what’s best for this country. Think something needs to be reconsidered?”
    –Obama blends ideological certainty with logistical flex. IMHO every good leader has a core that is solid yet is open minded to the ways in which goals are achieved.
    “You’re probably a racist.”
    –He calls folk’s racist? I have not seen that despite the fact that he has been the focus of racist hate.
    “Run a business and think you know how to spend you’re money better than Obama? Clearly, you’re unpatriotic.”
    –Is this just your summary? I have never heard him declare this. Examples that inform your perspective?
    “None of that has been working, but still, Obama’s right.”
    It has been working. The economy is on the mend. This idea that the economy is horrible is unsupported.

    Rick Parry is very hands off… in part a matter of personality but largely as consequence of different structural opportunities available to a Texas vs. federal executive.

  • Anonymous

    That would be a tie with both BushDrunks.

  • Anonymous

    I guess Obama had the grades to do it, since he graduated with honors. Only the jerks who were/are babbling about his birth certificate are obsessing over his Harvard grades, Sorry if you don’t like my implication, but quit being so smug, self righteous and plain common

  • Anonymous

    They were no worse than the allied submariners. The German merchant raiders mostly treated their captive survivors quite well. The only navy that would do that were the Japanese. Well we did it too to the Japanese, since so many of their men would try to kill our rescuers when we tried to fish them out of the drink.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Great point. Perhaps we should question the fellow who purchased a used car from W… follow up with the man behind him in a public restroom and even survey the folks running that team in Arlington! If only Obama has a gripe we then know he is a lazy complainer unfit for the position. That should be all the information we need. I can’t think of anything else that matters…

  • Anonymous

    Not facts! When you count illegals in your job numbers, but not in your population, your number employed will go up! When your state reports it’s own numbers, thats a little bit of an edge. Most of the jobs are very low pay. How many billions for those jobs, did the clown take, “after” he said he wouldn’t? When you really look at his numbers,… that’s not a strong point.

  • Anonymous

    But I would take their opinions over yours or Fatbo’s

  • david r

     How many times have you watched Das Boot?

  • Anonymous

    I’d say he’s a distant 3rd behind (1) Obimbo, and (2) Carter…very distant 3rd.

  • Anonymous

    Your smug self righteous contard is A TROLL!

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    There are a few others I have in mind, don’t know if any qualify as the worst.

    The Howard Dean scream?
    Helmet wearing Michael Dukakis touring on tank?
    Hillary dodging bullets on 1996 trip to Bosnia and New Hampshire sympathy cry?
    Sweaty, stubbled Nixon on TV debating Kennedy?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    If you listen closely he is referring to how the campaign imploded so the comments have some legitimacy. 

    Although using this barometer the same could be said about Newt down the road depending on how much more he implodes.

  • Anonymous

    3 times. But all navies forbade or discouraged their subs from exposing themselves to destruction by attempting to rescue stranded seamen.

  • Anonymous

    Of course, anything or anyone that contradicts your smug, self righteous ant’s eye dittohead world view is irrelevant.

  • Anonymous

    It helps that Texas still has a lot of oil at in a high price times

  • Walt

    Yeah, king of the minimum wage jobs; biggest polluting state; highest rate of uninsured health care,,, used Fed. stimulus money to balance last two state budgets.

    Texas would have been the perfect model for creating a third world nation if it had seceded.  But it needs the Federal Government.  Rick was always full of shit… like you.
     

  • Anonymous

    Nope, just yours buddy.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 American

    no, he’s heard of him,… just that Rick Perry is the worst.

  • Walt

    Not to mention ignorant.  Seriously, do think we can even begin to have any kind of intelligent discourse with people carrying on about Obama’s birth certificate and his qualifications to get into Harvard?  These people don’t think… they react to their puppeteers pulling their strings… also known as manipulators.

  • Anonymous

    BWAAAAA……….smug must be the magic word today eh, Einstein?
    Taking time off from posting how brilliant you are I see. 
      LMAO!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK9v_zBuBh0

  • Anonymous

    James Carvil, isn’t he Yoda’s mother?

  • Anonymous

    TO FINISH CARVILLE’S QUOTE:
    “…..but Obama is the worst PRESIDENT in American History”

  • Anonymous

    LOL!….

    Yet you have your fruitcake utopia in California…less than half the size of Texas, emmitting almost 85% of the pollutants the texas emits…and has a budget deficit twice the size of texas.

    As for minimum wage jobs, would you prefer that everyone remain on 11.5% unemployment like in the golden state?

    And check out LA if you want to see a standard bearer for a third world country….As usual for most libs…your ideological blinders keep you from realizing that it’s your own shit, that’s stinking up the place

  • Anonymous

    Or he’s forgotten about Howard Dean..LOL!!!

  • Anonymous

    Fatbo is skinny…Fatmo is fat.
    Get your facts straight.

  • Anonymous

    You just perfectly described the White House Muslim…you know….the President who was confirmed in all 57 states.
    Thanks for putting it into words for me.
    “….. which goes to show you can fool some of the people some of the time but at some point even those folks wake up and say what was I thinking?”

  • Mo Fokker

    I haven’t seen one worse in my lifetime than Rick Perry, and it isn’t coincidence that he reminds me of George W. Bush, the worst president of my lifetime.

  • http://mrfunn.myopenid.com/ mrfunn

    How old are you?

  • Anonymous

    Why are so many of you going after James Carville?  He’s simply telling the truth: Perry’s campaign has been a Three Stooges movie since its beginning, right down to the lead character.  That’s not Carville’s fault.  And Carville’s got some credibility on these matters, having run a successful presidential campaign himself some years back. 

    Republicans just don’t ever want to admit there’s a clown in their midst.  If they did, then they’d have to admit that there are others, besides, . . . like, oh, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, the fabulous Donald Trump, Allen West, to name just a few.

    The larger issue here seems to be, Why are Republican voters so attracted to clowns?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_A4CSW4HHV46LXHTLYBGX7QMNPI Cyrus

    Bush 43, Ford, Carter, Nixon, LBJ were all far worse.  You’re an ignorant hateful unpatriotic piece of conservative trash who only supports his country when it suits your ideological needs.  Conservative scum.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t incorporate “smug” into my screen name, acting like it is a  parody when it is the truth. Truth has a way of working itself out, and your pal is honest about his manifold shortcomings. I am hardly a troll, compared to a two bit by the numbers contard type like A_smug_self_righteous_dittohead

  • Walt

    LOL!…

    Yes, we should all aspire like you backwards conservatives do with your race to the bottom ideology allowing the 1% to rule over you with fear and religious dogma (that’s a far cry from the social justice I learned from Christianity) just like back in Colonial times.

    California has their obstructionist republicons, as well, who won’t allow a budget to pass w/o 2/3 majority which means they won’t allow the wealthy to pay their fair share.  Ironically, California was doing just fine until Reagan became governor which ironically is what also happened to the rest of the country when Reagan became president and did all that spending and tax cuts.  And then the country moved right and now we have you right wing extremists being the voice of reason on the right.  Truly backwards.

    Obviously, you are not up on the fact that CA has some of the highest EPA standards with the CEPA standards often more stringent than the Fed.

    The truth is with both political sides embracing Friedmanomics and turning away from Keynesian economics over the last 30 years it is you, your smugness, and your ideology which has done so much damage to the prosperity of this country adding that you have even gotten more crazier thanks to your propaganda media machine led by the coward and charlatan Rush Limbaugh.  But there is a shift that is going on because people are truly fed up with your kind of ignorance that has been screaming the loudest for too long.  You can have the last word as if will mean anything. 

  • Anonymous

    “White House Muslim”: bigotry, idiocy and/or dishonesty, you decide

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t hurt to be the #1 US producer of oil in high price times

  • Mo Fokker

    Because he is criticizing one of their own.   They have no sense of honor or integrity to admit how bad he has been. Why do you think they are now embracing a flip-flopper who called himself a “progressive moderate”?

  • Anonymous

    Al Sharpton

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Sarah Palin would have gave Rick Perry a challenge for the ‘Stupid Crown’ had she got in.

  • Anonymous

    Real Estate Deals?  Sure- lets throw Chicago politics in this mix…somehow Chicago politics are bad and everywhere else they are pure and the driven snow…right Smuggles?
    Seriously, nothing untoward or ILLEGAL happened with Obama here in Chicago.  Nice try.  Maybe you should start throwing out other talking points like Rev Wright or palling around with terrorists?  Come on, I bet you have a whole bunch in your most recent Limbaugh Letter…..

  • Anonymous

    Really?  Are you speaking of our former Governor Ryan ( R)?  He’s still in jail.  Blago (D) hes going to jail……So here in Illinois we take the corrupt politicians and put them in Jail?  That sounds like a democratic justice system at work. 
    Have I missed something, Smuggles?  Are you implying that Illinois is a model for all political systems across the U.S?  Or are you just spewing out more Rethuglican/ Dittohead talking point?

  • Anonymous

    Have you never heard of Huey Long?  Boss Tweed?  Tammany Hall?  All of those were Illinois political scandals correct?

  • Anonymous

    To Carville clown: Worst?/ did Rick Perry ever rape Juanita Broderick?   No- you can’t use being married to Hillary as an excuse!!

  • Anonymous

    wow this is by far the worst comment I ever read, if you not using your brain, please get off

  • Anonymous

    we need Ron Paul to stop these idiots

  • Anonymous

    Carville is a moron – like Perry, who never had a shot from day one.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    Go Cyrus!!

  • Anonymous

    Maybe you should Google “Santorum” and see what the first result is.

  • Anonymous

    Miley…Is that YOU?

  • http://profiles.google.com/vicvargaz Val Vargaz

    Politics: the fifth Scourge of America.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Danielle-Donovan/1294697454 Danielle Donovan

    I guess you missed the news story that Perry’s job numbers were more smoke than fire.  I think he was saying something like 1 million jobs when the actual number was less than 100,000 and few of them sustaining jobs with enough income to support a family.  You also forget that Clinton left Bush a well-tuned, beautifully maintained Lamborghini to drive.  When Obama arrived, Bush left HIM a broken down old Miata with flat tires and a blown engine.  Expecting Obama to repair the car and turn it around for a victory lap was kind of crazy, don’t you think?  If Bush had left a surplus similar to what he inherited, as well as a war-free military, good international relations, low inflation and $0.99 gas for consumers and businesses, it would have been a very different story.  Instead, more than a trillion dollars had fled up and out of the economy – thanks to those old regulation-hating boys – and a seriously disrupted global economy. Tell me again why anyone with half a brain would ever vote for a Republican again in their lifetime?  Or do you also invite bank robbers and muggers to your house for a stay?

  • Anonymous

    Worse did Bill C. ever execute an innocent man, and possibly break international law executing other just to please the red neck vote?! The dumb punks going down just like just like all the other not ready for prime time fools.

  • Anonymous

    Al still has his own show. $arah’s standing on the corner for FakeNews.

  • Anonymous

    He’ll be better in his 2nd term, t-bagger. I’ll bet bet you 10,000$$. (ha-ha)

  • Anonymous

    America will never elect a “scooter store” president!

  • Anonymous

    Hey, I loved and miss that little “black walnut”!

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Nobody, (Dodd’s immediate family included, I’d bet) seriously thought that Chris Dodd would be President. Where was the spectacle? Where were these groups lobbying for Dodd to jump in the race?  Dodd never polled more than 1% nationally in that race.

     Rick Perry?  Different case altogether. This guy was LEADING THE POLLS. Then those debates happened….

    –Cobra

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra
  • Anonymous

    Actually, It’s none of your damn business, small govt. liar and hypocrite. Lets just say he did something no one in your family and you could ever have done . Finally, the next four years are really going to hurt you. That makes me very happy that your delusion of privilege blew up in your face

  • http://www.facebook.com/andrew.sappington Andrew Sappington

    At least he was the Democratic nominee.  So, I don’t think it’s Dukakis. 

  • Anonymous

    When did Chris Dodd run for President?   I must have missed that.

  • NO ONE LIVES HERE

    CAUSE… ANYONE GIVES A F#CK  …. WHAT THAT SLIMY LIZARD TONGUED, PIECE OF  $HIT, THINKS. HES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE 2ND WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.. THE ONE WE HAVE, WOULD BE NUMBER 1.  PERRY MIGHT ACTUALLY KEEP HIS WORD, AND HELP NEW ORLEANS.. UNLIKE HIS BOSS, THAT CAUSED IT!!!  SHUT UP, YOU IRRELEVANT 60s DINOSAUR!!!

  • NO ONE LIVES HERE

    LETS HOPE PERRY  GETS, ELECTED BEFORE ROMNEY, WHO GUESS WHAT??? WAS BORN IN MEXICO!!! NO WONDER THEY RIDICULED ***ANYONE INVESTIGATING OBAMA!!!  THEY WERE WORRIED, CAUSE THEY HAD RUBIO AND ROMNEY, IN THEIR PIPELINE TO RUN!!!   BOTH!!! *** NOT NATURAL BORN.. YEAH, I SAID IT.  MAYBE CARVILLE WANTS   ; OLE ACCU-WEATHER SCAM SANTORUM…. ;  WHO KNEW KATRINA WAS COMING, BUT DIDNT WARN ANYONE!!!!  FACTS HURT HUH?? TOUGH.

  • Anonymous

    Obama was the worst candidate, the worst Presidential pretender, and on Olermann’s words, the worst person since the big bang.

  • Anonymous

    Mitt Romney was born in Detroit, Michigan. His father was born in Mexico.  Using caps won’t help when your information is inaccurate.

  • http://twitter.com/7000john John Prime

    What is it with the CNN people? Has America lost their marbles? All we
    hear with your Programmed announcers is Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney Mitt Romney, Mitt
    Romney, Mitt Romney. He is a waste of time as he also is programmed and a
    PUPPET for the BANKERS like CNN. You call this Democracy because he has more
    funding where he is programmed to do what the Big CORP’S and BANKERS tell him
    to do. WAKE UP AMERICA
    and CNN and start telling the people the TRUTH. America will NOT move forward with
    Mitt where the Bankers want to keep the American people SLAVES to their
    COUNTERFEIT money they print and to keep the people in DEBT. You have only ONE
    CANDIDATE that will make AMERICA
    a SUPER NATION and that is RON PAUL.

    As an Outsider we can see things more clear than you.

    It is so obvious that you CNN people are paid to promote
    Mitt Romney as we all know that the BANKERS own your station.

    RON PAUL is the ONLY one telling you American the TRUTH but
    the wall has being pulled over your eyes.

     

  • http://twitter.com/7000john John Prime

    What is it with the CNN people? Has America lost their marbles? All we
    hear with your Programmed announcers is Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney Mitt Romney, Mitt
    Romney, Mitt Romney. He is a waste of time as he also is programmed and a
    PUPPET for the BANKERS like CNN. You call this Democracy because he has more
    funding where he is programmed to do what the Big CORP’S and BANKERS tell him
    to do. WAKE UP AMERICA
    and CNN and start telling the people the TRUTH. America will NOT move forward with
    Mitt where the Bankers want to keep the American people SLAVES to their
    COUNTERFEIT money they print and to keep the people in DEBT. You have only ONE
    CANDIDATE that will make AMERICA
    a SUPER NATION and that is RON PAUL.

    As an Outsider we can see things more clear than you.

    It is so obvious that you CNN people are paid to promote
    Mitt Romney as we all know that the BANKERS own your station.

    RON PAUL is the ONLY one telling you American the TRUTH but
    the wall has being pulled over your eyes.

     

  • http://twitter.com/7000john John Prime

    What is it with the CNN people? Has America lost their marbles? All we
    hear with your Programmed announcers is Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney Mitt Romney, Mitt
    Romney, Mitt Romney. He is a waste of time as he also is programmed and a
    PUPPET for the BANKERS like CNN. You call this Democracy because he has more
    funding where he is programmed to do what the Big CORP’S and BANKERS tell him
    to do. WAKE UP AMERICA
    and CNN and start telling the people the TRUTH. America will NOT move forward with
    Mitt where the Bankers want to keep the American people SLAVES to their
    COUNTERFEIT money they print and to keep the people in DEBT. You have only ONE
    CANDIDATE that will make AMERICA
    a SUPER NATION and that is RON PAUL.

    As an Outsider we can see things more clear than you.

    It is so obvious that you CNN people are paid to promote
    Mitt Romney as we all know that the BANKERS own your station.

    RON PAUL is the ONLY one telling you American the TRUTH but
    the wall has being pulled over your eyes.

     

  • http://twitter.com/7000john John Prime

    What is it with the CNN people? Has America lost their marbles? All we
    hear with your Programmed announcers is Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney Mitt Romney, Mitt
    Romney, Mitt Romney. He is a waste of time as he also is programmed and a
    PUPPET for the BANKERS like CNN. You call this Democracy because he has more
    funding where he is programmed to do what the Big CORP’S and BANKERS tell him
    to do. WAKE UP AMERICA
    and CNN and start telling the people the TRUTH. America will NOT move forward with
    Mitt where the Bankers want to keep the American people SLAVES to their
    COUNTERFEIT money they print and to keep the people in DEBT. You have only ONE
    CANDIDATE that will make AMERICA
    a SUPER NATION and that is RON PAUL.

    As an Outsider we can see things more clear than you.

    It is so obvious that you CNN people are paid to promote
    Mitt Romney as we all know that the BANKERS own your station.

    RON PAUL is the ONLY one telling you American the TRUTH but
    the wall has being pulled over your eyes.

     

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