Joe Scarborough On Rick Perry: You ‘Really Couldn’t Design A Worse General Election Candidate’

President Obama’s approval ratings right now are bad. Really bad. However, according to Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe today, there may be, as his co-host Mika Brzezinski put it, a “silver lining with spurs on it.” None other than Rick Perry.

With even Michele Bachmann’s former campaign head saying the race was now between Perry and Mitt Romney, the Morning Joe crowd debated which candidate would be better for Obama’s reelection chances. Scarborough was firmly on the side of Perry, calling him “a man who couldn’t win a swing state if his life depended on it,” bringing up some of the more controversial comments in his recent book like his belief that it might be better if the general public didn’t get to vote for Senators.

However, Scarborough’s views weren’t shared unanimously. Chuck Todd argued that the White House may prefer Romney over Perry, pointing out that Perry would be coming into the election strong while Romney would be weakened after fighting with the Texas governor for the nomination. Pat Buchanan added that, were Romney to be the nominee, the campaign would then be about Obama.

In the end though, Brzezinski summed up the feelings about Perry most simply by wondering aloud “Why do they keep putting people like this out?”

Watch the clip from MSNBC below:

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