Give That Man A Muzzle

Has anybody spoken more gibberish during a Presidential campaign in just a week than Mark Penn? Days after the "Barack Obama hasn't won any significant states" nonsense, he rolls out this gem:

"Winning Democratic primaries is not a qualification or a sign of who can win the general election. If it were, every nominee would win because every nominee wins Democratic primaries.”

Why didn't we think of that before? This primary business is so outdated. Sometimes the winner of the primaries doesn't win the election! There has to be a better way. Hmm... we could just leave it up to whoever Mark Penn decides should be the nominee? Run that one by him, I think he'll get on board.

Between that stuff and the new Clinton message (and all messaging goes through Mark Penn) that Obama can't be a substantive guy because his speeches are too good, it's been a hell of a week for easily mocked quotes.

(by the way, if you want to look at beyond speeches, and at the two candidates' actual records, Hilzoy did the legwork.)