GOP Candidates Can’t Name Best Living President, Default to Reagan

CNN’s Chris Moody, who appreciates the Loony Tunes-level of D.C. politics better than most, trolled a gaggle of GOP candidates at the Freedom Summit this weekend by asking them to name the greatest living president.

Living, of course, excludes Ronald Reagan, patron saint of Republican imaginations, though several candidates still selected him. But as Moody pointed out, no good options remain: Carter, Clinton, and Obama are Democrats, George H. W. Bush would be an implicit endorsement of his son, and still no GOP candidate save Rick Santorum wants to be within a Texas mile of George W. Bush.

Given that bench, Rick Perry perhaps had the best response: he high-tailed it.

Watch the clip and delete your account below, via CNN:

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