Scarborough: 'There Will Be Blood' If Romney Seen Cruising To Nomination
Some are sanguine about Mitt Romney's chances of wrapping up the nomination if he wins Iowa and New Hampshire—but Joe Scarborough's prediction in such case was nothing short of sanguinary.
On Morning Joe today, Scarborough predicted "there will be blood" among conservatives if they see Romney cruising to the nomination. Video after the jump.
Mark Halperin disagreed, suggesting that Romney would likely wrap up the nomination if he wins Iowa and New Hampshire. Halperin predicted that no one will drop out after Iowa, leaving the South Carolina field filled with conservatives, thus splitting the conservative vote and helping Romney. Note also that Scarborough suggested that Newt Gingrich keep his powder dry, apparently believing he is the person conservatives might rally around to stop Romney.
I'll be back with a transcript, but in the meantime, watch Scarborough make his bloody prediction.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: I will tell you this. I know this sounds crazy, but if I'm just looking at the field right now: keep your head down, don't blow yourself up in Iowa, because there's going to be a lot of teeth gnashing and weeping after the guy that's got a 24% ceiling wins Iowa and the conservatives split. Cause everybody's going to start looking and saying OK, who is the conservative? We are not going to allow a guy that has the 24% of the moderates in the Republican party voting for him, while this conservative party pushes another, let's say, Gerald Ford to the finish line. By the way, I need to explain this. This isn't necessarily what I feel. I need to explain this. I'm telling you, as I predicted, crazy never wins in the Republican party, and it doesn't.
But the Republican party, just like I said when Newt Gingrich was at 38, 39% wasn't going to stand for that, they're not going to stand for the guy who has a 24% ceiling walking away with their nomination. Anybody who thinks it's going to be over after Iowa and New Hampshire, if Romney wins, does not understand the conservative base. There will be blood if Mitt Romney seems like the guy who's going to walk away with it . . . So, Mark Halperin, do you think it's over if Mitt Romney wins out?
MARK HALPERIN: I think it is, Joe. I know you think it won't. And I do think there will be this spasm of conservative angst, of saying it can't over, he's not the right person.
SCARBOROUGH: They should have thought of this before!
HALPERIN: They should have thought of it before. I mean, if he wins Iowa I think he will roll out of New Hampshire and I think he'll be in a strong position in South Carolina. Willie and I were talking, as we like to say, off air, about the notion of people dropping out. I don't think anybody's going to drop out. I think even Michell Bachmann will go, try to fight on in South Carolina. It's perfect for Mitt Romney to have a crowded field in South Carolina.
Question: did Scarborough contradict himself? On the one hand, he tells Gingrich to keep his head down, suggesting that Newt might be the person conservatives rally around in an effort to stop Romney. A minute later, Joe seemed to be citing the precedent of Gingrich's big lead being chopped down as an example of how conservatives won't stand for certain candidates walking off with the nomination. So which is it?
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MSNBC should change its name...
Submitted by almostacowboy on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 9:01am.
to TIN- The Insanity Network.
This is Scarborough country!
Submitted by GeneralAl on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 9:04am.
"Question: did Scarborough contradict himself? On the one hand, he tells Gingrich to keep his head down, suggesting that Newt might be the person conservatives rally around in an effort to stop Romney. A minute later, Joe cited the precedent of how Gingrich's big lead was chopped down as an example of how conservatives won't stand for certain candidates to walk off with the nomination. So which is it?"
Welcome to "Scarborough Country", Mark!
"Old Soldiers never die, they just fade away"!
Is
Submitted by BBallleaper on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 9:04am.
that a mannikin next to Liberal Joe? Must be cold there as I see her warming her pert and lovely breasts with a hot cup of Joe!
Joe Scarborough is too impressed...
Submitted by richard on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 9:19am.
...with his own poopularity. Just because you think it, Joe, doesn't make it so. Romney may not be the total conservative you wish for, but he is a hell of a lot better than Odumbo could ever be for this country. You dismiss out of hand the coalition that will take place within the Republican party, as well as the Independants, who will come to their senses after Mitt becomes the nominee, and they are confronted with the stark choice of a left of center conservative and a full blown socialist.
Come January 2013, it'll be time for the ONE to start writing his memoirs, even if they fall into the "fiction" catagory.
Joe Scarborough only knows how to Contradict Himself.
Submitted by mytwosense on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 9:46am.
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Because, Moron Joe, is a Pathological Hypocrite.
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Scarborough's smoking that cheap stuff again
Submitted by SaguaroJack on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:13am.
It's the Left that riots when it doesn't get its way, or even when it does. The Right -- too white, too evangelical and too rural though it may (or may not) be -- behaves like adults. Always has, always will.
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It took Scabborough no time
Submitted by Captain Repus on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:53am.
It took Scabborough no time at all after his vacation to resume his hateful bashing of everything and everyone Republican. Weakest field of candidates ever, eh Joe? A herd of successful businessmen, successful congressmen/women, senator, governor of one of the largest and most successful states being called a 'weak field' by a 6 year junior congressman from an insignificant Florida district with a scandal filled background. Way to go, Joe. You better stick to being silicone-woman's straight man.
Scarbrough want NO Republican
Submitted by Gat New York on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:07pm.
Scarbrough want NO Republican to win. He has bashed all GOP candidates while always feeling to need to qualify everything he says with "as you know I am a small government conservative." He's right about the "small" but it's his lack of kahones.
He is getting paiud very well by MSNBC to be a phoney token conservative whose mission is to surreptiously promote Obama by downgrading all GOP candidates.
Scarbrough cannot be taken as a serious GOP pundit.
Is Mika Mouse Joe Boy's wife?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 12:50pm.
She sits there like the nitwit she is and corrects him on the fly as he speaks, has a look of disdain when she doesn't have a look of lust, and attempts to then defend her fellow nitwit at the end to salvage some small respect for the "family." They gotta be married!
Joe Boy says that in the Republican party "crazy doesn't win?" How soon he forgets that the GOP nominated John Hee Hee Hee McCain, who, if he weren't a "hero" would be certifiable.
He also seems to forget that he was the moron who won in a Florida House District once, a long, long, time ago.
This is not what Scarborough Believes
Submitted by Conservator on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 1:40pm.
Joey will vote for Obama as he rationalizes that there was NO REAL conservative for him to support. Regarding whether or not he "contradicted himself," the answer is of course he did. Joey hates Newt and proudly brags about how he and other conservative Republicans (in theory) were responsible for Newt's resignation as Speaker of the House. In addition, Halperin was wrong about Romney. If he wins Iowa and New Hampshire, he's not going to "wrap up the nomination."
BTW, it's amazing that these highly paid journalists are so ignorant about the new proportionality in the GOP caucuses and primaries. Case in point, after all of the votes are counted tomorrow there will be 3 winners. However, all of the candidates will win delegates in Iowa and the difference between Romney's delegate count and Bachmann's will be less than 3 IMO.
I'm sick of the wish casting.
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 8:31pm.
I'm sick of the wish casting. Using reasoned analysis flew out the window when they jumped on the "get Obama elected at all costs" train, and they don't seem to want to get off!!!
Ronald Reagan
I actually watched Scarborough for a while.
Submitted by acaiguana on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 9:51pm.
He is not the adult in the room.
ACA
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