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Scarborough Warns Conservatives: Attacking Jeb Makes Him More Likely to Run
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/17/2014 6:27:41 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

Joe Scarborough has a warning for conservatives: going after Jeb Bush will make him more likely to run for president.

According to Scarborough, speaking on today's Morning Joe, Jeb is "his mother's son," "kind of "cranky" and "rough around the edges." If conservatives think they will drive Jeb out of the race by attacking him, "they've got him played exactly backwards." To the contrary, conservative attacks will make Jeb more likely to run "to prove them wrong."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016presidentialrace; conservatives; jebbush; joescarborough
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1 posted on 12/17/2014 6:27:41 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Scarborough warns conservatives that attacking Jeb will make him more likely to run. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 12/17/2014 6:28:28 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sarge warns Scarborough: backing the Dauphin makes Sarge less likely to vote for him...


3 posted on 12/17/2014 6:28:53 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

RUN JEB RUN!!

Dilute the RINO field. Let all the Rinos run against Cruz.


4 posted on 12/17/2014 6:29:15 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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5 posted on 12/17/2014 6:29:50 AM PST by dontreadthis
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He’s made it pretty clear that he doesn’t care what conservatives think.

I’m guessing he’s pleased as punch at all the progressive precedents Obama has set for him to follow as president.


6 posted on 12/17/2014 6:31:08 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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Dilute the RINO field. Let all the Rinos run against Cruz.

Amen brother.

7 posted on 12/17/2014 6:32:33 AM PST by McGruff (Ummm...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

the spin is thick already.


8 posted on 12/17/2014 6:32:53 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Pot kettle kettle pot....peas pods...nit wit...
9 posted on 12/17/2014 6:33:04 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: dontreadthis

I agree with those ladies.


10 posted on 12/17/2014 6:35:54 AM PST by MagnoliaB
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Jebbie isn’t deciding whether to run based on polling data or principle.

He’s lining up the big buck donors whose interests he cares most about. Once he’s squeezed all the juice he can from them (so as to limit his serious competition), he’ll announce his candidacy.

If anyone thinks the GOPe or the RATe works any differently, they are seriously deluded.


11 posted on 12/17/2014 6:36:02 AM PST by BlueYonder
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So his advise for us is to just lie back, close our eyes and think of Reagan will the GOPe has its way with us.


12 posted on 12/17/2014 6:40:22 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I don't much care whether JB runs or not. Without an Obama type surprise (i.e. coming out of somewhere totally unexpected) in the Republican Party the nominee will be Jeb Bush or Mitt Romney. I suspect Romney will not run if Bush is running so as not to dilute the effort. If both of them get incapacitated and can't run it will be Christie. The process will look just like it has looked the last two cycles. Many good men will contend, none of whom have lined up sufficient money to run the whole race. They will cut each others' throats through the first primaries, aided by the Bushney money that will be used to slice up whoever is ahead while Bushney doesn't actually compete until the later primaries where he is then the last man standing.

The one useful possibility is that Christie will run even if Bushney is in it and will use the same strategy of lying low in the earlies, then Bushney and Christie go at each others throats.

If the conservative candidates could all take a lesson from the Reagan run and refrain from attacking each other perhaps the outcome would be more favorable. I am not optimistic on that score either. Bush has already tied up most of the available money and will use it in a storm of attack ads against whoever stands taller among the crowd of conservatives.

At this point I see no future for conservatives in the Washington Party. The Republican iteration of that party is realy the Bush Family Party now, anyway. Perhaps God will choose a different outcome, but I believe we have to truly hit bottom before that might happen.

13 posted on 12/17/2014 6:42:41 AM PST by arthurus
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All these guys make money by running for Pres. They get to keep whatever they don’t use. Multimillionaires overnight. Every year this Republican primary situation gets worse. Iowa, New Hampshire, open primaries so the Dems can vote the candidate they want for us. Here in TX we never get any choice for who the candidate is — its is already decided and that is the plan.


14 posted on 12/17/2014 6:50:16 AM PST by Hattie
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

So let’s NOT attack him then!... that’ll show him!!

It’s like the scene in Monty Python Holy Grail “Perhaps if we run away some more...”


15 posted on 12/17/2014 6:50:34 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; All
IMHO
*FLASH!*

and he works where?
..msNBC (mainly a toilet/sewer) of the Gov't
media propaganda complex


16 posted on 12/17/2014 6:55:10 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who cares. Bush is a loser.


17 posted on 12/17/2014 6:58:04 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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OK Scarborough, you liberal socialist, I will now vote for Jeb, after all we don't want to make him mad! sac off

This kind of liberal theory is like, “don't call them terrorist, they might get mad at us!”

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

18 posted on 12/17/2014 6:59:15 AM PST by americanparatrooper (Remember your forth point of contact in a PLF and cover it)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Where oh where did Jeb go wrong? He was by and large a very good governor. I can point at a couple poor decisions, but overall, he was a good conservative and had his head on right. Now, he’s literally letting non-sense spew out about common core, the party base and virtually everything else.


19 posted on 12/17/2014 7:05:25 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Scarborough is a fraud Conservative—never liked the guy.

I loathe the Bushes too....


20 posted on 12/17/2014 7:07:27 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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