After acting as Donald J. Trump's on-call political bidet for the last year, Squint Scarborough would now like everyone else in the Republican party to court professional suicide to save the Republican party from the monster the Republican party created.
Scarborough to GOP: Stand up to TrumpFor all the hue and cry over the Beast Trump, the provenance of this catastrophe is just not that hard to understand.
By NICK GASS 06/15/16 06:33 AM EDT
Republicans who find themselves despondent over Donald Trump as their party's presumptive presidential nominee need not go through the motions, former congressman and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Wednesday.During an opening segment of "Morning Joe," the former Florida lawmaker laid out the stakes for senators and members of the House running in competitive races against Democrats this November, a day after a Bloomberg Politics national poll showed Clinton with a 12-point lead over Trump....
See, a political party built on a foundation of pandering to rage-drunk, bigoted conspiracy-junkies has chosen a rage-drunk, bigoted conspiracy-junkie as it's nominee.
Simple!
Or, in other words, you built this, Joe.
You built this.
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Nailed it.
If you stand up to Trump, you need to do so with a compelling message. The Establishment's message is the same as it has been for 30+ years: cut taxes on the rich, eliminate Social Security and the rest of the social safety net and criminalize all reproductive rights. Those are messages that are compelling alright - compelling the GOP Base to stay with Trump.
"...a day after a Bloomberg Politics national poll showed Clinton with a 12-point lead over Trump."
In 2012 Squint and the gang's answer to Romney's obvious coming beat down (so obvious that Obama phoned in the first debate) was Unscrewed Polls and tell the rubes it was neck in neck with a coming Romney landslide that the liberal media refuses to talk about. What will it be this year?
Also, what the Republican Party needs to seriously do to regain the White House has been known since at least 2008. Considering how centralized, yet broad reaching, their propaganda arm is and how malleable their base voters are, they could have made an unprecedented platform pivot in that time.
Yet their answer has been a "Fuck all that! Can we turn Rush up to 12?" while Squint and the gang's answer has always been "My party was doing great until THOSE Republicans over their screwed it all up yesterday!"
@trgahan: "Yet their answer has been a "Fuck all that! Can we turn Rush up to 12?" while Squint and the gang's answer has always been "My party was doing great until THOSE Republicans over their screwed it all up yesterday!"" Perfect. My only quibble is that their double-down on a double-down of a double-down at this point has to be at 15, at least; 12 was like five, six years ago.
Relatedly, regarding the slap President Obama applied to Trump and the 'he didn't say the magic words' crowd: how long has he been holding on to that one? Years, right? And he held on to it until when it was necessary to apply it. 17-th dimensional chess, I'm telling you, this guy is a master of The Art of War. Anyone who wants to squander 8 years of Obama because they got oatmeal raisin cookies instead of chocolate chip, I think, should consider what it took in order to come to this juncture at this time. With our moderate democrat President.
@trgahan: At this point, and even in 2008, what's the pivot supposed to look like? You can feed the base Benghazi, birth certificate, Bush who?, and all that because it't all the same flavor palate. If you start telling them eh, Mexicans are OK you just dumped pickle juice in the rum & coke. Especially if it doesn't come with some money. And it's not going to come with any money because that's the whole point. The donors are trapped. And the Sanders/Clinton voter age split should be scaring them.
"conspiracy junkie?" Like when Trump accused Bush of lying about the WMDs?
Trump is NOT GOP corrupt hierarchy, he's a wild card.
Your girl, though is corrupt to the core DNC hierarchy. Who voted for the war and proceeded to help destroy Libya and Syria as well.
Deal with it.
You share more with the RNC Elite than you care to admit.
Nice blog "Ken"
http://kenrightnation.blogspot.com/
Wait you're blaming Libya and Syria on whom exactly?
We should run Brownback and his entire Leg. Then the country really could go to the seventh level in a hand basket, on an accelerated schedule.
I still don't understand what the GOP establishment's problem is. They have been advocating for this for years, and the voters were VERY clear in the primaries who their choice was. Why is there and issue? Just because Trump is an unelectable horror? Romney was too.
Why the sudden panic? Was there a meeting I missed? What is it about Trump that they object too? He's everything they have been clamoring for, and more. I would think he was the GOP wet-dream.
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