Former CNN anchor Piers Morgan recently appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and when the topic of Hillary Clinton as a presidential candidate, he told host Joe Scarborough that she’s “no spring chicken.”
“Hillary Clinton is slightly Ghost of Christmas Past to many people. She didn’t beat Barack Obama. She’s no spring chicken, and I say that in the nicest possible way. And if I were the Democrats, I’d be thinking, ‘we’ve got to be very careful here, that we don’t put all our eggs into the Hillary Clinton basket and we end up with somebody who could actually lose.’"
These are interesting statements coming from someone who once dismissed Clinton’s critics as “misogynists.”
"I've been listening to the Republicans getting on their high horse about this for a long time. Now I've thought a lot of today's criticism was political grandstanding in many ways… "I'm getting a little bit weary, I'll be honest with you, with the relentless attacks first on Susan Rice and now on Hillary Clinton. There's a – a whisper of misogyny to it, I think, and it's getting pretty, I think, incestuous and very Washington-orientated rather than in the national interest of America.”
This isn’t the first time that Clinton’s age has become a topic of discussion. Last month, Jay Leno appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and made similar statements when comparing Clinton to potential challenger Elizabeth Warren:
“But she seems to be sort of, she seems very slow and very — I don’t see that fire, you know, that fire that I used to see, that I see in Elizabeth Warren. Because I say to people, ‘how much younger is Elizabeth Warren than Hillary?’ And people go, ‘oh, 15 years.’ No! 18 months.”
Morgan told Scarborough that a Clinton presidential run would actually help the GOP because they have fresh new faces, which Democrats are desperately lacking. He said “the problem that Hillary Clinton’s got is, the Republicans are going to clearly have somebody new, and fresh, and interesting, and exciting just because that’s what they’re going to have.”
As if these comments weren’t strange enough, when asked which potential presidential candidate Morgan likes for 2016, he had warm words for Scott Walker.
“I actually think Scott Walker is playing a very clever game. I’ve always thought he was a smart guy,” Morgan said. “You can see the Chris Christie bubble is gone. He’s got a big battle to get back. If I was a betting man right now, I think someone like Scott Walker against Hillary Clinton is a very interesting matchup, which I think would benefit the Republicans.”
So Piers Morgan says Hillary Clinton is no spring chicken, and likes Scott Walker as a presidential candidate. No word if hell has frozen over, but it has been colder than usual lately.
