Joe Scarborough has expressed serious doubts as to his Republican affiliation, and made clear that House GOP whip Eric Cantor "is not my friend." But caution to those who assume Joe has gone left: he has clarified to this NewsBuster that his critique of the GOP comes from the Ron Paul-esque right . . .
Scarborough's stunning comments came on today's Morning Joe in response to Dem Bob Shrum's taunting of Joe over his ostensible GOP membership, in the context of Pres. Obama's attempt to rescue Martha Coakley from the rubble of her campaign.
BOB SHRUM: The reason your friend Eric Cantor pulled back from --
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well hold on a second, hold on a second. Hold on a second, Bob! No, just stop. Just stop.
SHRUM: Your fellow Republican.
SCARBOROUGH: Eric Cantor is not my friend.
SHRUM: You're still a Republican, Joe?
SCARBOROUGH: You know what? That is a hard question to answer. I am trying to figure out why the hell I would be a Republican. I'm dead serious.
Some might be tempted to take Scarborough's statement as a sign he's moved left. But when I reached out to Joe, he provided this explanation of his remarks:
I became a Republican because I believe in less government, tax cuts, balanced budgets and a rejection of Wilsonian foreign policy.
For the past five years, the GOP in Washington has increased deficits, doubled the national debt, championed a $7 trillion explosion in entitlement programs, and promoted a foreign policy that would make Woodrow Wilson blush.
The Republican Party in Washington needs to reform itself or die. I admire people like Paul Ryan, Ron Paul and John Shadegg but I am waiting to see if the Republican leaders in DC will follow their approach to championing less government and mean it.
The Republican Party in Washington needs to reform itself or die. I admire people like Paul Ryan, Ron Paul and John Shadegg but I am waiting to see if the Republican leaders in DC will follow their approach to championing less government and mean it.
Good for you, but why in the world would you believe a word they say? Every Republican in Congress could stand up and sound just like Ron Paul clones and I still wouldn't vote for them. They had their chance. They've proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they cannot be trusted. There is NOTHING they could do to get me to vote Republican except put Ron Paul on the ticket.
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Mockingbird Program Chief CIA PsyOps Directorate to Joe Scarborough:
Joe, it looks like a lot of the Republican base is moving away from the specified positions of the Republican Party. Our Psychographic Profiling of your viewing audience indicates that a change in tactics is required. In order to maintain good Perception Control on the viewing public we need to position some of our people as "Ron Paul" Libertarian Conservatives. So, along with a couple others, the control meme is to rhetorically move publicly away from the Republican Party so that the standard control memes of "support our troops", "Conspiracy Theory", etc., may still be effectively employed as control phrases. Repetition of key memes will continue as normal just downplay your allegiance to the Republican Party in order to remain an opinion leader for your audience.
Sincerely,
Redacted
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Good for you, but why in the world would you believe a word they say? Every Republican in Congress could stand up and sound just like Ron Paul clones and I still wouldn't vote for them. They had their chance. They've proven beyond a reasonable doubt that they cannot be trusted. There is NOTHING they could do to get me to vote Republican except put Ron Paul on the ticket.
Yep, same for me.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
I don't want to be (and I am not) a member of the R or D party and never have been. I registered Independent back when I turned 18 and I am a long ways from being able to see that in my rear view mirror. No option at that time to register as a Libertarian so I can truthfully say that I was a libertarian before there was a libertarian party (but just slightly before).
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
Well, here's a fast way to find out. Put Joe in office again, and see how his Secretary falls and hits her head and dies.
Interesting. I hadn't heard anything about that. A cursory search, which is all I have had time to do since I read your post, says that she was alone in the office when she died. Do you know whether that is true or not? If he wasn't there he couldn't have killed her. If he was there then she wasn't alone.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
Joe, it looks like a lot of the Republican base is moving away from the specified positions of the Republican Party. Our Psychographic Profiling of your viewing audience indicates that a change in tactics is required. In order to maintain good Perception Control on the viewing public we need to position some of our people as "Ron Paul" Libertarian Conservatives. So, along with a couple others, the control meme is to rhetorically move publicly away from the Republican Party so that the standard control memes of "support our troops", "Conspiracy Theory", etc., may still be effectively employed as control phrases. Repetition of key memes will continue as normal just downplay your allegiance to the Republican Party in order to remain an opinion leader for your audience.
You could well be correct. That is how it has been playing out for a long time.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
Nobody just falls down and dies in an office. Do they?
Oh, given all the possibilities--drunk, stoned, hit head on hard objects, etc., etc., I am sure it could happen. Not saying that was what it was because I don't know.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
Yeah, then there's the possibility that her blunt force trauma to her head was caused by an Angry douchebag.
The story was that she hit her head on the desk when she fell. But I sure don't know what happened because I wasn't there. Not taking up for Scarborough, just not damning him to hell when no witnesses saw him do anything and when the story is that she was alone in the office.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton