Joe Scarborough Compares 'Cursed' GOP at CPAC to Cairo Chaos
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough thinks the GOP's house is already on fire in his latest Politico column, where he thrashes the party's leadership for a poor showing at CPAC. He ridiculed the gathering as "a conference cursed with dull speechmaking and intraparty battles."
"Like most Egyptians, the conservative movement still has no idea who will lead it through the next election," Scarborough writes. What is the biggest reason candidates have not entered the field, he thinks? They are scared to run against Obama.
"Most of them privately believe Obama will end up winning in 2012," Scarborough believes, although he quotes only one potential GOP candidate who told him that he won't run unless he knows he can win. Although that may sound tones of caution, it's certainly not a submission to Obama's greatness.
"Four years ago this week, Obama announced his candidacy for president. Four years later, no serious Republican has dared to put a toe in the water," Scarborough writes, casting a glow over Obama's very candidacy.
Scarborough cited a poll that has his approval rating at 51 percent as a damning statistic for GOP chances in 2012. He also cites Public Policy Polling (PPP) polls that feature Obama crushing each of the possible GOP candidates. However, Scarborough might forget where Obama was at this point in 2007, where he had just declared his candidacy and was a clear underdog to Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
Scarborough saved his most bitter invective, however, for Mitch Daniels, Republican governor of Indiana and 2012 presidential hopeful. He painted Daniels as a phoney fiscal conservative who was partly responsible for the record increase in national debt under President Bush, as his director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Scarborough also noted how Daniels was "used" by Rumsfeld to tone down criticisms of the estimated cost of the Iraq War.
Of course, Daniels was not OMB director for Bush's entire term and ultimately President Bush's sparse use of the veto pen is responsible for Congress's profligate spending. What's more, Scarborough seems to completely omit Daniels's two terms as Indiana governor as part of the potential candidate's case for chief executive of the country.
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Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 5:46pm.
Can't you just hear the groundswell of conservatives as they begin the "slow clap" from every teen movie, building into crescendos of "Run, Joe, Run"?
No? Gosh, Joe, I coulda' sworn I heard it.
NOT!
Think it through, Joe.
Submitted by Ashrak on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 5:50pm.
Joe is as lost about the whole "lead yourself" aspect of the Liberty movement as any other progressive. Most of them thought that Republicans would walk away from the November elections disappointed. They were wrong then, and Joe is wrong now - and for the same reason.
Obama is toast, if he even runs. Joe is just wishful thinking again.
Just one man's observation
Submitted by Clemenza on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 6:41pm.
Looking at Mika makes you think she is the dumbest member of the Morning Joe team.
. . . . Listening to Joe proves otherwise.
Absolutely, GOP just won 70 House and Senate seats
Submitted by merly1 on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 9:32pm.
and 3 months later Joey is saying...........what?
Joe is...
Submitted by unkeeaf on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 6:43pm.
Joe is what Lenin used to refer to as a useful idiot.
Tingles gave me a shudder
Submitted by Ashrak on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 6:49pm.
Mathews just gave a gem, in word and video.
He admitted that Democrats fled the state of Wisconsin in order to disallow a vote (CHA CHING) and then he laughed about it, for an extended period of time, with the most foolish look on his face.
Panama Tingles needs to regret that one.
Earth to Joe, I don't dislike
Submitted by buddyc on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 6:52pm.
Earth to Joe, I don't dislike you because you don't "hate" Obama. I dislike you because you take money from NBC for claiming to be something you are not. You sell the Republican label for money which is paid to you only so long as you are good little boy and criticize Republicans.
I had a law professor tell me about working at a big law firm fighting anti trust regulation. He said he woke up one morning looked the mirror and saw "a prostitute". He left the firm and started teaching.
Joe, look in the mirror.
Joe the Idiot
Submitted by csmrjerry on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 6:52pm.
I hate people who try to be something they are not. Joe be honest and come out of the closet and admit you are a crazy liberal Democrat at heart.......have some balls, at least the homosexuals came out of the closet and they don't have any real balls. You are a complete disgrace to America and what she stands for.
Too Funny
Submitted by Bourbeau on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 6:57pm.
This coming from a talking head who ran away from the political battle and found a hole on cable TV to spew is illogical nonsense. Joe Scarborough has no credibility and is the kind of person who couldn't hold a real job, so found a place in MSNBC, the holy grail of mediocrity in cable TV. Why anyone would want to watch or listen to him is beyond me; he's become a snarling talking head, one of many on MSNBC, and is honestly not worthy of anyone's time.
All I can suggest is the
Submitted by Miss_Me_Yet on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 7:03pm.
All I can suggest is the reader take it from where it comes.
Like so many other left wing bomb thrower pundits even Scarborough constantly questions, then attempts to reinvent himself into someone of relevance in the politic of Washington today.
Well sorry Joe, but so far NO good. Teaming up with all the other morally, not to mention financially bankrupt misfits, nor miraculously snagging a sponser like Starbucks has snapped you out of your losing streak / death spiral.
Now hooking up with the supposedly non partisan ( even though they have a permenant seat at your table ) Politico just proves they're not only losers in their own right, but as far left and full of it as anyone with half a brain knew all along.
Joe, your supposed three hour program is so on life support, you now only produce a two hour show, rerunning one of those hours throughout the third. How sad is that?
Not quite as sad as the fact your loyal viewers appear to be none the wiser.
Liberals ... we can't live with them, they couldn't survive without us ...
Teach us more Joe....
Submitted by Chandran on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 7:37pm.
Joe, you've become a political prostitute.
Still "proving" you're a Conservative...
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 7:58pm.
Still "proving" you're a Conservative, eh Joe?
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Joe was playing Conservative today.
Submitted by Texndoc on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 9:04pm.
I tuned in for a couple moments and Joe was laughing about Guantanamo and saying Obama's campaign lacked substance and Mika said "Oh, Joe!" . And I tuned in the following hour and Joe was laughing about Guantanamo and saying Obama's campaign lacked substance and Mika said "Oh, Joe!" . And then before I left for work during the third hour, I tuned in for a sec and.....well, I just repeat myself.
The ratings stink louder with him being liberal butt-kisser so he's trying kicker now?
Joe, A Conservative?...Really?
Submitted by Boil It Down on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 9:07pm.
Who could possibly buy that other than someone who is so far to the left they see Matthews as center? Is the wall of their bubble frosted with no view outside at all?
It just makes me sick that they keep calling Joe a conservative or Republican. Anyone with a lick of sense knows better.
Hu Gnu?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 02/17/2011 - 9:11pm.
Still looks like a horse in striped pajamas to me.
Just sell the dam Potato Chip's Joe!
Submitted by circusstorm on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 12:25am.
Some idiot puts joe on Tv to sell potato Chip's and now joe thinks he is relevent? We decide who is relevent Joe! Just look at your ratings. Why should conservatives pick a leader now? So the Left can start the process of ripping them to shreds? That is why they are shooting wildly at anything that move's. They need to get the focus off that idiot in the White House. Now we get 24 hours of Egypt and the like's to keep the focus off that idiot. They need Conservetives to pick its leaders so desperstely that they are picking them for us. We have nothing but time on our side. Joe needs something to talk about besides Mika's idiot father... atta boy Joe!