Incredibly dumb. Insensitive. Selfish."
Uh-oh, Ed Rendell is in the news again.
The former mayor and governor was working overtime yesterday to extract his foot from his mouth after some less than amusing musings on Donald Trump's relationships with women.
Speaking with the Washington Post, Fast Eddie said the reality TV star turned leader of the Republican Party will have trouble with women voters, in particular in the Philadelphia suburbs, because of his comments about women.
Then he managed to out-Trump The Donald.
"Will he have some appeal to working-class Dems in Levittown or Bristol? Sure," Rendell said of Trump's often belittling, combative comments about women. "For every one, he'll lose one and a half, two Republican women."
Rendell suggested Trump's comments will come back to haunt him at the polls.
"There are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women," the former guv quipped. "People take that stuff personally."
Yes, they do, Mr. Mayor.
Rendell was quick to apologize after the comments went viral yesterday.
He fell on his sword - or maybe his tongue - lamenting his comments as "incredibly dumb and selfish."
Rendell was one of the key Democratic power brokers who helped lift Katie McGinty to the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Pat Toomey.
And he's a Hillary Clinton booster.
It's not the first time Rendell's has made headlines with his mouth. He's known for saying what's on his mind.
This time, while shooting from the lip, he managed to shoot himself in the foot.
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