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Joe Scarborough: ‘Sarah Palin Is The Republican Party’s Barack Obama’
Mediaite ^ | August 13, 2011 | Frances Martel

Posted on 08/13/2011 3:57:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Scarborough may have just come up with the worst possible backhanded compliment to Sarah Palin. Discussing her trip to Iowa with Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC today, he lauded her as “the one political star in the Republican Party right now” and for her “questionable ability to govern” and status as a “political superstar,” crowned her “the Republican Party’s Barack Obama.”

“She’s got star quality,” Mitchell noted as she observed the massive crowds following her in Iowa. Scarborough agreed enthusiastically, arguing that “of all the candidates in this race, there’s no doubt Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul excite their different bases, but there is one political star in the Republican Party, and that is Sarah Palin.”

He went on, sensing that what he was about to say would “engage both sides,” but made the argument that Palin was “the Republican Party’s Barack Obama”: “not a whole lot of experience in Washington before running in 2008, questionable abilities to govern based again on the fact that she was only governor for a couple of years in Alaska and Barack Obama was really only a glorified state legislator.” Nonetheless, he noted that they both had a similar ability to energize their base.

It’s a pretty brave comparison in that it’s fairly difficult to think of anyone on either side of the political spectrum that wouldn’t take some offense to it– likely most of all Texas Gov. Rick Perry, whose newfound status as frontrunner may be hindered if the belief that Palin is the only analog to the President– and thus the only one that can beat him– maintains any popularity.

The segment via MSNBC below:

(VIDEO AT LINK)


TOPICS: Iowa; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2012; obama; palin; palinoia; pds; perry; rinos; sarahpalin
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Are they finally waking up? Or have they known about her popularity all along but strived to hide it from the public? Why end that now? I'm sure the internal polls are at least part of the reason that Mr. Obama can't sleep.
1 posted on 08/13/2011 3:57:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe and you are ,The Democrat party and Franks butt boy,Stupid little Man!


2 posted on 08/13/2011 4:02:30 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Scarborough is the media’s Barack Obama.


3 posted on 08/13/2011 4:05:27 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I predict a Monday Palin hate-fest on MSDNC. She was on Hanity Friday. Usually when she appears on his show, MSDNC runs a loop from it all day, with various Democrat analysts and Liberal comentators explaining how stupid she is and how much they hate her and how she'll never amount to anything. It's comical.

I'm actually a bit surprised that Scarborough said much positive about her. Even back handed like that. Must be his time in Iowa has made him forget that as a MSNBC employee, he is contractually obligated to denigrate Palin.

4 posted on 08/13/2011 4:06:40 PM PDT by cc2k ( If having an "R" makes you conservative, does walking into a barn make you a horse's (_*_)?)
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To: Cicero

Will somebody f*****g stick a sock in this guy’s mouth?


5 posted on 08/13/2011 4:06:54 PM PDT by huckfillary (qual tyo ta)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mourning Joe lost it a long time ago when he went over to the Dark Side. I don’t pay attention to anything that he or anyone else at PMSNBC says. They babble and drool too much over there.


6 posted on 08/13/2011 4:08:58 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans need to wean their government off of its dependence on foreign money.)
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To: Cicero

Nah. Scarborough Fairy is just a media turd du jour.


7 posted on 08/13/2011 4:11:12 PM PDT by SAJ (Zerobama -- a phony and a prick, therefore a dildo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, if Obama was competent, patriotic, honest, smart and eloquent, he’d be like Sarah. But he isn’t.


8 posted on 08/13/2011 4:23:31 PM PDT by Argus
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Joe Scarborough is the media’s Barack Obama.

Scarborough is in the media?

I thought he was 0bama's assistant press secretary!

9 posted on 08/13/2011 4:24:18 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Damn Scarborough is out of pixie dust...
And his wand is making farting sounds..


10 posted on 08/13/2011 4:26:03 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I suppose he meant that in a nice way...Cuz if he meant she’s our equivalent of an incompetent, inexperienced, illegitimate, unqualified, over-his-head Kenyan dopehead, I think I disagree ;-)


11 posted on 08/13/2011 4:26:13 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Say, Joe - tell us about that dead girl in your office a few years ago, would you?


12 posted on 08/13/2011 4:34:56 PM PDT by dainbramaged (I lost my mantra around 1969.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The problem with people who were gleeful with Scarbourough trashing Michelle Bachmann yesterday is that then you get him trashing Palin today.


13 posted on 08/13/2011 4:35:03 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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Are they finally waking up? Or have they known about her popularity all along but strived to hide it from the public?

Ummmm ... Vet, you are confusing celebrity status and notoriety with with perceived competence.

You also completely missed why the author thought that it was the "worst possible backhanded compliment to Sarah Palin".

If Charlie Sheen were to show up a your State Fair, the media and the fair goers would be mobbing him for a photo op or for an autograph.

“The one star in the Republican Party right now” (Like Charlie Sheen)

That does not mean that they would trust Charlie Sheen with any responsible job.

“Questionable ability to govern” (Like Barack Obama)

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FOX NEWS Poll released on Wednesday, August 10, 2011

FOX News Poll: (August 7-9, 2011)

Question 25. Sarah Palin - Do you think this person would make a good president or not?

.................YES.........NO.......DK.....Never heard of

ALL...........19%.......75%.........4%.......1%

Dem ............7%........89%.........3%.......1%

Rep ...........34%.......58%.......7%.......1%

Ind ...........20%........74%.......5%.......1%

14 posted on 08/13/2011 4:44:56 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius
Have you missed even one Palin thread since she was nominated for VP in 2008? I'd call that an obsession, friend.
15 posted on 08/13/2011 4:54:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
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To: Polybius

Another problem with your argument is that Barack Hussein Obama is currently the president of the United States, or don’t you get newspapers there in Fantasyland?


16 posted on 08/13/2011 4:56:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Scarborough is the RINOcerati’s anal sphincter.


17 posted on 08/13/2011 4:58:20 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Scarborough is the RINOcerati’s anal sphincter.


18 posted on 08/13/2011 4:59:41 PM PDT by tarotsailor
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Joe Scarborrow is TV’s Joseph Pujol.

(Just uses a different orifice.)


19 posted on 08/13/2011 5:02:02 PM PDT by Avery Iota Kracker (He hate me)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because they have come to realize Sarah Palin is going to run, and when she announces, no one will be able to deny her star power.


20 posted on 08/13/2011 5:06:04 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (The entitlement class will prove to be the liberals very own creation of a Frankenstein monster.)
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