James Carville says the Herman Cain adviser who raised eyebrows this week by puffing on a cigarette in a campaign video was either “drunk or stoned.” 
 
 “If that guy wasn’t drunk, I haven’t taken a drink in my life! He was as high as he could be. He was drunk or stoned. You know, some kind of chemical, I guarantee you that,” Carville said, laughing about Cain adviser Mark Block on ABC Thursday morning. 
 
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 The video was “funny,” Carville continued, just like Cain’s bid for the Republican nomination, which Carville made clear was not to be taken seriously. 
 
 Herman Cain “is not going to be” the Republican nominee, Carville said. “What he is is a national distraction, maybe not a bad one, in the middle of this horrific recession,” he said. “But let’s be real.” 
 
 Carville had even sharper words for another Republican candidate in the race. 
 
 “The best thing Rick Perry can do for himself and his family and his friends is get out of the race and go back to Texas. This man is evidently not up to this. He had plenty of chances to do it. He can’t debate. He can’t give a speech. … He can’t go on television,” the former Clinton aide said. He added that the amount that the Texas governor has in his war chest is irrelevant. 
 
 “He can have $150 million dollars in the bank — he is incapable of running for president. He can’t do the things that are necessary to run for president,” he said. “He’s just in something that he should have never gotten into. He’s in over his head.” 
 
 The Democratic strategist said there was not much standing between Mitt Romney and the nomination. 
 
 “I mean, Rick Perry’s completely blown himself up. There’s zero chance that Herman Cain’s going to be the nominee.” ||||| Democratic strategist James Carville appeared on Good Morning America this morning to assess the current crop of front runners in the GOP presidential field and was not shy in his both predictable and entertainingly harsh criticism of his ideological foes. Herman Cain and Mitt Romney were both targeted, but it was Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has seen a rather enormous dip in recent polls, that received the most merciless review. 
 
 In Carville’s purview, Romney isn’t so much a “flip-flopper” but more of a “a serial wind sock” adding “every time you turn around, it’s something else.” On Herman Cain, Carville declared that he “is not going to be the Republican nomination for president,” before calling him a “national distraction,” which might be a welcome one in the middle of this “horrific recession.” 
 
 But he saved the best/worst for Perry, saying of the one time belle of the GOP ball “The best thing Rick Perrry can do for himself and his friends and family is get out of the race and go back to Texas, adding “this man is evidently not up to this. He had plenty of chances to do it. He can’t debate. He can’t give a speech. He can’t hold a position paper. He can’t go on television….he’s in over his head.” 
 
 GMA host George Stephanopoulos served as a sort of straight man for Carville’s partisan punditry that likely reminded many viewers of the typically non-partisan ABC News offering that these two worked hand-in-hand in Bill Clinton‘s campaign and administration. Since tephanopoulos never really challenged Carville on his take — and there was never an opportunity given to a dissenting point of view — this segment is sure to give rise to the predictable charge of “liberal media bias” (thunder crack!) 
 
 Watch the clip below, courtesy of ABC News: 
 
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– James Carville offered an entertainingly disparaging take on the GOP presidential race today, saying that nothing stood in Mitt Romney’s way to getting the nomination—he may be a “serial windsock,” constantly changing his positions, but his opponents are inept. “The best thing Rick Perry can do for himself and his family and his friends is get out of the race and go back to Texas,” Carville told George Stephanopoulos on Good Morning America. “This man is evidently not up to this.” As for Herman Cain, Carville said, he “says funny things” but “is not gonna be the Republican nomination for president.” Politico was especially struck by Carville’s reaction to Cain’s bizarre smoking aide ad. “If that guy wasn’t drunk, I haven’t taken a drink in my life!” Carville declared. “He was drunk or stoned. You know, some kind of chemical, I guarantee you that.” Stephanopoulos just laughed—as Mediaite notes, the two were cohorts during Bill Clinton's campaign and administration, so there's a whiff of liberal bias here.