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A tale of two Scarboroughs: From rabid gun rights crusader to gun control advocate
The Daily Caller ^ | 4/24/13 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 04/24/2013 9:45:33 PM PDT by Nachum

Over the past four months, former Florida Republican Rep. Joe Scarborough has used his “Morning Joe” program on MSNBC as a platform to be an outspoken critic of the National Rifle Association and anyone else standing in the way of what he calls “common sense” gun control legislation.

On more than one occasion over the past month, Scarborough has accused NRA-loyal Republicans of putting the interests of “rapists” ahead of other Americans.

“I can’t believe those Republicans are going to allow the entire Republican Party to be the party that basically put rapists’ rights over parents’ rights to keep their kids safe when they go to school,” Scarborough said on his April 8 program.

And after Republicans blocked an expansion on federal background checks for gun purchases last week, Scarborough declared that they were driving their party toward extinction.

But Scarborough hasn’t always been so passionate about restricting gun rights. In fact, prior to the 2003 start of his cable television career, he was among the most vehement defenders of gun rights.

In National Rifle Association questionnaires obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller — dated August 23, 1994, September 2, 1994, and June 7, 2000 — Scarborough declared his strong opposition to any federal effort to restrict gun rights.

Scarborough submitted two versions of the same questionnaire in 1994 because the first was apparently misplaced. TheDC has obtained both.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gun; rabid; rights; scarboroughs
So Joe... were you lying then or now? By the way how much did they buy you for?
1 posted on 04/24/2013 9:45:33 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Dead intern. Didn’t cost them a dime.


2 posted on 04/24/2013 9:48:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ah, leverage can be useful.


3 posted on 04/24/2013 9:49:30 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Some has used witchcraft on him. Thats my opinion.


4 posted on 04/24/2013 9:51:34 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: ColdSteelTalon

I Put a Spell on You!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwXai-sgM-s


5 posted on 04/24/2013 9:54:43 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bwahahaha.....LOL


6 posted on 04/24/2013 9:56:53 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Nachum

Boogity Boogity....


7 posted on 04/24/2013 9:57:35 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amazing what a woman’s corpse can do.


8 posted on 04/24/2013 9:58:47 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Luke21
His main buddy and party partner...

Condit gained significant national attention for an extramarital affair with intern Chandra Levy, which was exposed after Levy's disappearance in May 2001. Condit was not candid and forthcoming with investigators about his relationship with Levy, bringing him considerable negative attention and speculation that he was somehow involved in her murder. The following year, he lost in the 2002 Democratic primary. Condit was later exonerated and found to have no involvement in Levy's death.[1]

9 posted on 04/24/2013 10:03:46 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: Nachum
Joe, has sold himself to the lowest bidder annually...
a Chris Matthews w/o the spittle / booze.

10 posted on 04/25/2013 1:49:38 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Nachum

And Joe, why you chose not to run again for Congress so soon after a staffer was found dead in your Florida office?


11 posted on 04/25/2013 3:08:37 AM PDT by AdaGray
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Once upon a time I admired and applauded Joe. He was one of the brave House managers who led the impeachment trial of the sink staining perjurer B J Clinton.


12 posted on 04/25/2013 3:52:47 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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