welcome back to the revvies. here once again is the host of politics nation the reverend al sharpton. thank you, and welcome back for our final revvie awards of the evening. it s time for the revvie for the worst political performance of the year. alex, who gets your thumbs down for 2011? who really blew it. it was a subtle employment, but tour deforce, eric cantor. the man who kept the ensured the republican caucus was split, he went toe to toe behind john boehner and ensured no grand bargain could happen. i don t think he gets enough credit for his job of really fracturing congress, and i think
street inspired, people said not on my watch. i think it would be osama bin laden killed. let s go to surprise twist award. the rice and i will say presumed fall of newt gingrich. who thought this summer the revolving $500,000 tiffany s account, the greek isles tour, that this guy would xwk the front-runner of the year. who knew? that the governor of texas would be so awful as a campaigner. i mean, you know, this man has won election and rewon election. he s an accomplished politician. he was so unready for the national stage. rick perry, you get a revvie. for me it was herman cain. coming in with very little political experience, to capture the imagination of the base, and to move folks the way he did i
relationship in such a way that she distanced herself appropriately. hats off, hillary. you go, girl. all those accomplishments have nothing to do with the woman itself. she wasn t taking any pictures, she wasn t talking about the economy, she was talking about something else. that s all in the context of men. she made a powerful point when it game to gay rights worldwide. i think that was one of her largest accomplishments. i think hillary was at every major summit, she was at the state of union addresses. she may not be in a lot of pictures, because secretary of state i hate to start a rumor to the republicans is supposed to be a felon partisan position. of course, you wouldn t know that i understand what it says on paper, reverend, i get that. like the constitution, the republicans what it says on paper. that s about it. uh-huh. no not just my revvie nod would go to
more back-biting, more scratching, more hair-pulling than the republican party of the day. if i was teaching political science, they would be the chapter on what not to do. they are by far getting the revvie oh, my god. i forced michael into praying. for the best reply wall performance? this is tough, but i m going to give it to a guy named barack hussein obama. he started out weak, he was forced to eat a bit of humble pie, but ending the year incredibly strong. i daresay he has his swagger back, has a winning message going into 2012, and he s come a long way, baby. ditto. he was left for dead in the middle of the year. he s come back strong. this is a repeated pattern. he s been written off so many times before as a candidate, a president. this year you have the highs with things like ordering the
the revvie for outstanding achievement in a smackdown. the winner is senate candidate elizabeth warren for you want to mess with me defense. there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. nobody. i moved your goods to markets on the road the rest of us paid for. you hired workers the rest of us paid to education. the built a factory and it turned into a great idea, god bless. keep a big hunk of it, but part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward to the next who the comes along. the awards will be right back.