Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh have “big audiences,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said during a question and answer session on Tuesday, while Hillary Clinton is “certainly intelligent,” and Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint “doesn’t play well with others.”
The Senate majority leader offered his brief descriptions and these and other notable people during a lightning question and answer session at the American Enterprise Institute. The full list:
Ted Cruz: “No comment.”
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid: “Rhetorically challenged.”
Civil War-era Sen. Henry Clay: “The great compromiser. The person who, more than any other person I think, held the country together as long as it could hold together before the Civil War.”
Hillary Clinton: “You know, I think a pretty flawed candidate, but certainly intelligent and knowledgeable.”
Former senator and current Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint: “Doesn’t play well with others.”
Matt Bevin: “A guy who bounced back from a pretty good drubbing I gave him in the primary.”
Matt Drudge and Rush Limbaugh: “Big audiences.”
Fellow Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul: “Really creative, interesting, libertarian. We need a libertarian faction in the Republican Party, and I admire the fact that Rand Paul plays within in the tent rather than going off on his own.”
Muhammad Ali: “The greatest.”
Sportscaster Vin Scully: “I think this is finally his last year … he’s been around so long I remember listening to him on the radio when I listened to the Brooklyn Dodgers in the ’50s.”
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Unprompted, McConnell also offered an assessment of President Obama. “He’s like the kid you know in your class that was a really smart guy, but wanted to make sure you knew that,” McConnell said. “One of the president’s grating characteristics in my view is characterizing my views to me in a meeting. It’s really a waste of time.”
“We have had, I think, a few opportunities to have constructive negotiations, but it was not with him,” he added. “It was with the vice president. He did not waste time trying to convince me of things he knew I couldn’t be convinced of, nor I of him.”
