From the Department Of Tell-Us-What-You-Really-Think: former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) said that his pooch is better than President Obama when it comes to the economy and creating jobs.
Tancredo was appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball, stumping for former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) for President, and responded to a question of whether GOP frontrunner former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is running a demolition campaign — simply knocking down other Republican candidates without offering a strong platform to win the nomination.
“[Romney] is setting the stage for a debate between him and Obama who can best handle the economy,” Tancredo said. “Who has the best record for creating jobs and for, you know, essentially, increasing prosperity. I think Romney feels, and I think rightly so, he can make a case for that. He’s better at it than Obama. My dog is better at it than Obama. There’s no issue in terms of who is better in terms of the economy.” (emphasis ours)
At the end of the interview, host Chris Matthews lightly called him out on the statement. “You deserve congratulations on the supposed IQ of your dog,” Matthews said. “Oh he’s a great dog!” Tancredo replied.
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Kyle Leighton
Kyle is the Poll Editor at TPM. He graduated from Beloit College (WI) and began working in politics before getting an M.A. in magazine journalism from New York University, where he interned at TPM and the website of The New Yorker.
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