Posted on 11/20/2013 4:09:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Joe Scarborough is out with a new book again, lecturing conservatives on the best road forward. Here's the first sign it should be ignored (just like the previous ones): It will be reviewed by The New York Times, while Mark Levin's truly important, best-selling books are not.
It's the same formula for the Scarborough TV tour: an appearance next to Barbara Walters on ABC's "The View," spots on "CBS This Morning" and "Charlie Rose: The Week" on PBS. The liberal media really want Scarborough to tell Republicans what to do. And why not? Might that be because their recommendations are similar?
Scarborough insists Republicans have to moderate, moderate, moderate. "We" need a Republican Party that enables more of President Barack Obama's political dreams, because that's what the people want ... or at least media people.
It's annoying faux conservatives look to real conservatives to give credibility to views antithetical to conservatives. Scarborough cites William F. Buckley as he declares in the book, "We have to stop electing amateurs who serve as little more than ideological indulgences, who exploit resentments that play well enough among the base, but whose positions make them nonviable in general elections." Why is this? "There is no substitute for victory, and I for one am damn tired of my party losing presidential elections."
There is not a comma in this passage that isn't dishonest. Where would this man be today if Republicans weren't "electing amateurs" like him in the Newt Gingrich wave of 1994? Were Scarborough's positions, so in line with the conservative base when he was elected, "ideological indulgences"? This is a man who has found a real home at MSNBC.
In fact, Scarborough isn't at all "damn tired" of Democrats winning the White House. On "The View," he declared a willingness to vote for a Democrat if Republicans keep on their current MSNBC-upsetting path. Would anyone who watched "Morning Joe" in 2008 or 2012 believe that Scarborough took to the air with every breath to ensure Obama was defeated?
I'm sorry if that question was a choking hazard. Let's take just a few samples of evidence from 2012, when Republicans nominated Mitt Romney.
--On March 31, Scarborough mocked Romney for mutilating himself (rhetorically) -- "He is a cutter, a political cutter" -- and then ridiculed a poll result showing the GOP losing by 25 to Obama among women. "I guess that idea of chaining women to a radiator in the kitchen, that the Republicans wanted to put on platform, not going over."
--On April 4, Joe "Damn Tired of Losing" Scarborough announced on his show: "I've yet to meet a single person in the Republican establishment that thinks Mitt Romney is going to win the general election this year. They won't say it on TV because they've got to go on TV, and they don't want people writing them nasty emails. I obviously don't care. "
--On Sept. 8, Scarborough appeared on "Today" to trash Romney's chances. "This is one of the worst weeks for any presidential candidate in a general election that any of us can remember ... Unemployment is still 8 percent-plus, the economy is still in tatters, and Mitt Romney is blowing this race." At the end of the segment, he added, "I'm going to go put a bag over my head now, so I will talk to you soon."
--On Sept. 14, Scarborough lashed into Romney for a "horrific, irresponsible press conference" after the attacks in Benghazi. (Romney spoke before word came of four Americans dying.) "If Mitt Romney had kept his mouth shut, if he had not acted like a rank amateur, if he had not embarrassed himself -- and by the way internally the campaign understands they screwed up, he's moved on, they know that. So no conservative can say, `Oh, the mainstream media, blah, blah.' ... Romney got in the way of the media looking at the president."
--On Sept. 28, Obama-loving CBS late-night host David Letterman publicized "Morning Joe" with the title "Joe Scarborough: Sweet Jesus." CBS then played an MSNBC clip that began with an incredibly standard campaign event where Romney encouraged the crowd to chant "Romney-Ryan." It ended when the camera switched back to the set showing Scarborough with his hands covering his face in shame as he said, "Sweet Jesus!" The Letterman audience roared.
--On Oct. 29, Scarborough appeared on "Today" to insist Hurricane Sandy would help elect Obama. "Mitt Romney had momentum ... This was Mitt Romney's best weekend, and it stops. The momentum stops."
If Scarborough were really "damn tired" of losing, he might wonder why he's crushed daily in the ratings by "Fox & Friends." It's not just ideologically indulgent Republicans he's tried to defeat; it's all Republicans. Please, Joe, no more lectures about your conservative credentials.
Yeah... we should listen to this pos like the Jews should have listened to hitler... no way Jose!
These moderates rarely define moderate but they are quick to bash Conservatives but not leftists.
The DNC/NSA/IRS KNOWS what happened to his sec.
and obviously LET HIM KNOW that they know.
It will stand the test of time over Scarborough's book by a mile….
There’s no such thing as “moderate” voters. It’s all a ruse to water-down conservative beliefs so in the end the Republican is no different than the Dem. Then these voters will vote for the Dem in the end.
WTH does this idiot know about winning an election? He was nothing more than a political opportunist, running unopposed half the time. I don’t believe he’s been through a tough campaign.
Gary Condit and Joe Scarborough have a lot in common.
I can tell little Joey what to do but then the Admin wouldn’t like it! As far as I’m concerned he should be in a Florida prison!
Joe RINO Scarborough sold his soul to the left long ago. His opposition to the tea party and Sarah palin is well known. He needs to be taken off the air.
Well played. And well done, by the way.
FUJS!
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