Rendell’s mouth makes news again

    Our former Governor and Mayor Ed Rendell is back in the news for not being on-message with the Obama campaign. The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza has a piece calling Rendell an “Obama antagonist” for a number of sins – his calling the Obama campaign’s attacks on Mitt Romney’s work at Bain Capital “disappointing,” and the prediction in his book A Nation of Wusses that Hillary would run for president in 2016.

    Who cares about [Rendell]?,” Cillizza quotes an unnamed Democratic strategist as saying. “Why is he doing it? Relevancy. He’s also trying to sell a book, pure and simple.”

    Wrong. Put a microphone in front of Ed a few times a day, and you’ll get something provocative often enough, whether he’s pushing a book, running for office, or ordering a cheese steak.

    He wasn’t selling a book in the 2000 presidential election, when he was Democratic National Committee chairman and said any number of things that got him in nominee Al Gore’s doghouse.

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    That’s just Ed being Ed, and it’s one reason reporters enjoy covering him, even some he’s vented his fury at.

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