These numbers don't lie and the lesson for any budding Morning Joe-types out there is clear: the audience isn't stupid. They can sniff out a backstabbing weasel with remarkable speed, putting an early end to Scarborough's transparent get-rich-quick scheme.

  You woulda thought the experiences of other turncoats such as Scott McClellan (remember him?) would have shown anyone with similar urges to reconsider.  These turncoats believe they will become like comets, permanent fixtures in the heavens when actually they become like meteorites, a brief flash and then ..... nothing.

joe scarbough is to Conservatism:

Like Pat Boone is to Little Richard:

Like Tofu is to Angus Beef:

Like Iron Pyrite is to Gold

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And that is all that matters isn't it?

To be liked by losers with big mouths and small brains?

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This whole thing is too sad. There are two types of Republicans- One that as actually taken to heart that the Democrats, who have won one cycle ('06 Congress and '08 Presidency) now represent a paradigm shift in public-thinking and that this Country has some way, some how transformed over night to an extreme momentum towards the left and therefore we have to adapt; and the other that realizes that this is just a natural occurrence that happens after long standing representation of the same and testing the waters to try something else makes sense to some (the new "young") for some reason. 

Every time this has occurred, massive regret sets-in, big mistakes are realized, and a renewed passion to not ever do that again takes hold only to begin another center-right 20-year run and therefore avoiding Obama and his ilk for another eon. Carter was the last one that was close to this nuts and Reagan went from absolute obscurity to a legend. The new young come around again, the Country forgets, and we'll have to experience this cycle all over again.

Scarborough lives in the first catagory. I watch his show because Fox does lack certain substance in the mornings and even though Morning Joe usually drives me crazy with that "tits on a Bore-Hog" Mika and her useful idiot of a father that lives his life in shame, and their guests typically consist of those loud-mouthed wussy losers that we all remember growing up with, there are those times when Joe can hold his water and I can actually see that he has the fundamental ingredients of that type of person that has made this Country what it is. Without excusing him for his growing weakness and blind understanding to the fact that conservatism cannot be turned on, off, or manipulated, I think he has really put himself into a self-destructive situation- You cannot live in a pneumonia ward and expect to not get sick. He really should've done what Tucker did during his time at MSNBC- Do enough to put food on your table but stay the hell away from those people until the right venue has an opening.

For Joe to forget that liberals have always lived their lives striving to aggressively change things and will always live their lives striving to no avail until death, nothing they can do will last long term and through every effort they strive to make, results in the same for this Country- Regret, broken, and we have to clean it all up again. 

Unless Joe, who has now effectively put himself in a box with Collin Powell, gets his rear end out of there, I don't think he will personally recover within himself. He is no Collin Powell and he had better get his act together...    

Here's a reminder from a few weeks ago when the book was 'launched', the launching party was held at the home of Margaret Carlson, and guests included  Andrea Mitchell, Dana Milbank, Chris Matthews, Anal Marie Cox, Norah O’Donnell, Frank Foer, Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff and Bill Press.

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This book will be received like John McCain was in the last election. Liberals love to make choices for Republicans, but when the time comes to vote, or actually buy the book, they will always of course choose the liberal candidate or writer.

Scarborough is an Obamabot and thinks he has to answers to save conservatism.

Who does he think will buy his piece of garbage book? Probably Colin Powell and Tom Ridge.

Maloney summed up my same sentiments about Joe perfectly.

Back-stabbing weasel says it all.

Joe has disappointed me before he even left congress.

...and he used to have so much going for him back then, or so he projected on the House floor way back then.

He says a few good things now and then to protect himself, and the conservatives sites at time give him kudos then, but to me it's all flash, job protection, plus he thinks he can somehow keep the title 'conservative'.

Hint Joe....you can fool some of the people some of the time...got that.

Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart

Scarborough shows the difference between a Republican and a conservative. It's the difference between a theory of winning elections versus a theory of government.

• The political myth is that when you campaign, you're "explaining" to the people how you intend to govern.
• And, in our system, that's how the people express their verdict on what they want government to do: they vote for the candidate who promises to govern the way they want.
• If the political candidate doesn't govern as he promised, then he's "stolen" the mandate of the people. He hasn't earned it. He's tricked his way into a vote. The vote ceases to be a mandate.

But we live in a political system that has, shamelessly, divorced governance from campaigns. The campaigns try to capture constituencies, and then concoct platforms to appeal to them, but they have no commitment to the platforms. No one truly expects candidates to stick to their platforms once in office. That's when we have all the partisan babble during the primaries, and then they all claim to "move to the center" during the general election.

Scarborough's book is about being a practical Republican, and it's a flop. Why? Because it isn't about principles. It's practical politics dressed up as theory, and everyone knows it. It's basically an open conversation about how, under the current climate, we can "trick" or "lure" people into voting Republican. It isn't a discussion of reality, it's a discussion of manipulating perceptions. Who wants to hear that?

Levin's book is about principles of governance, and people flock to that. That's got to be a message to the practical people. This is what we really want! Stop with the "packaging." Give the people an honest theory, and they love it.

Doesn't show in Amazon's import of the NYT bestseller list of top 15 hardback or top 20 softcover NF: http://www.amazon.com

At this moment, Amazon shows it #262 in all books, updated hourly: http://www.amazon.com

Levin's book, #1 on New York Times Best Seller List for like 10 weeks, all of this without the big push from the MSM.  Remember when the Bash Bush books came out, they were pushed by the Alphabet Networks, who just couldn't get enough of the authors on their shows.  Now Beck's book is pushing high sales numbers, once again the alphabets won't be inviting him on anytime soon to help with the promotion.  O'Reilly's books continue to sell well, at least better than Nancy Pelosi's books do. 

What does this all mean?  Joe has an opinion but there aren't many conservatives who agree with him, or care enough to buy his book to figure out what it is.  I guess conservatives think that, someone who's sold his soul to the devil by working at MSNBC, isn't willing to put forth the effort to bring about the changes he's calling for. 

I'll agree with Newt, et al, on this.  If Colin Powell, Joe Scarborough, etc., want to change the Republican Party, let them bring out their candidates, run them, get them into leadership positions, and let the games begin.  All they want to do is play Democrat and cry in the corner. 

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

If you think liberals and MSNBC are fully behind Obama, think again
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show that aired a segment titled: "IS BUSH AN ‘IDIOT’?" NewsBusters Tim Graham's blog post titled: Reflections on Joe Scarborough and Idiot-Bush Segments on MSNBC covered that piece of crap well.

What surprises me the most about Scarborough's book is that a supposed true conservative, Jed Babbin, wrote this review (at Amazon.com under Editorial Reviews) about Scarborough's book:

"Conservatives need to read this book. Joe Scarborough is a real conservative.”

Jed Babbin is not only the editor of the conservative Human Events and HumanEvents.com, but he has guest-hosted The Rush Limbaugh Program. Moreover, Babbin has bashed the leftist media and MSNBC so much that TVNEWSER had a piece titled Why Jed Babbin Just Made the "Do Not Book" List at MSNBC. Go figure.

Some of the other Editorial Reviews at Amazon don't surprise me. These reviews are written by such "conservatives" as:

Peggy Noonan:“The Last Best Hope is must reading for anyone who cares about the conservative movement.”

Christopher Buckley: “Joe Scarborough can save the GOP. This is a lively, likeable and important book. So my fellow Republicans–rejoice. We have a face! Now let’s get to work.”

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"Powell's not a Republican.  McCain's not a Republican.  These guys are not even mavericks.  They are Washingtonians. Washingtonians have their own culture and their own desires, and it is to matter.  They don't care who's in power, they just want to be closely associated with whoever is.  That's the name of the game and they want press adulation.  They want to be loved and adored by the media, they want fawning treatment, they want to be thought of as something special, unique, dignified and so forth, and that's the Washington establishment." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Joe Scarbrough...Scotty McClellan...David Brooks

Beta-minds championing Ertaz Conservatism

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when he first came on MSNBC in the evenings.  It quickly became apparent to me that he had no passion for the "Conservative" point of view and that is why I stopped watching his show and continue watching and listening to Laura Ingraham, Rush, Sean, Mark Levin, Bill Cunningham and even Glenn Beck, who doesn't even consider himself a Conservative but a Libertarian or Bill O'Reilly who calls himself an Independent..  I own many books written by the aforementioned, but I have absolutely no desire to buy Joe's book.  Jim Webster