I just -- -- -- it it didn't let it Herman Cain says funny things Herman Cain is not going to be the Republican nomination for president. I mean he's what He had to them at national distraction maybe not a bad when in the middle of this horrific recession but -- bit -- -- -- up. 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. You have the best thing -- could do for himself and his family and friends get operation go back -- this man is is evidently not opted yes. He had plenty of chances to do it. He can’t hold a position paper. He can’t give a speech. 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. He can't debate He can't give a speech He can't pole position Paper He can't go on television got fifteen million dollars in the bank James got you -- He could have a hundred. He is incapable of running for president He can't do the things that an -- run for president he's behind Newt Gingrich in the polls now. He's just in something that that that He should have never gotten him to. RRK I can't imagine I mean that repairs completely blown himself up there's there's zero chance that that that -- against the Vietnam it got it in less. 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.
– 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.