One day after causing a mini-dust up in the Pennsylvania state Capitol, former Gov. Ed Rendell took on the national GOP candidates likening them to clowns in a "clown car" at the circus.
Politico reports Rendell "gleefully taunted the GOP as a "clown show" with frontrunners Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney making "one mistake after another."
It’s “where the clowns arrive in the car and they keep getting out of the car and then there’s one clown after another,” Rendell told reporters at a Democratic retreat on Maryland's Eastern Shore. “We’ve seen clowns run for president totally unqualified who have no idea what’s going on in the world, who have no idea about how the government works, no idea about foreign affairs, have one bizarre idea after another.”
Rendell was attending the event to rally Democrats for the 2012 races telling lawmakers - as he has repeatedly in the past - not to shy away from their accomplishments "regardless of where the winds are, stay and defend what you've done because you can't run away from them."
On Wednesday Rendell touched a nerve in his old stomping grounds when returned to Harrisburg to take on his successor, asking Gov. Corbett to scrap his plan to conduct asset tests on food stamp recipients.
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- Look who's talking about clowns.— gone with the wind
- The man who ran a circus as Mayor and Gov and made more back door deals and made tax money dissapear to his friends sure knows what a clown looks like, AS he was a JOKE as an elected official and a sleeze as well......He is an embarrassment to the city and the state and deserves NO voice or platform....but ehn again, he slid money to his union buddies and bosses and they do control the Inky and the DN— nuggett
- None of them would come up with allowing the "backdoor" DROP loophole for elected officials, though would they?— Wiseman6
- One of the things that makes Republicans look like clowns as a whole is comments like the ones above. Simply dancing around and squirting water at those who make a valid point, actually MAKES the point for Ed Rendell. Thank you.— Larry Byrd
- Rendell needs to stop his extreme partisanship. Didn't he hear his Obamassiah tell him to tone down the rhetoric after the Arizona shootings? Never mind, Obama is ignoring what he said back then too.— ObamaSolyndra
- @Larry- You know what they say about people that live in glass houses... Rendell should be aware of that old saying.
I noticed that Fast Eddie doesn't bloviate on the wonders of the DROP program, now does he?— Wiseman6
Reminds me of Ed Rendell.