When former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney supposedly invaded Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s personal space Tuesday night, it conjured up a memory of one past debate for MSNBC “Hardball” host Chris Matthews.
On his Thursday program, Matthews recalled a 2000 debate between presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore, during which Gore — in the middle of one of Bush’s replies — walked right up to the future president.
“When he came up there, I don’t know if this is ‘The Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ or what,” Matthews said, “this guy comes up, all of a sudden he walks right up to Bush, and Bush gives him that — and maybe it’s the smartest thing Bush ever did besides putting his arm around that firefighter on the Friday after 9/11 — What a moment.
I mean he looked down at that moment, and says ‘what’ — I can’t use the word — ‘What a d-bag. What kind of a guy are you?’ I mean that look he gave the guy, here it is. It was so good, it was so good.”
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