Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough is leaving the Republican Party

[Voltaire2]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/07/11/morning-joe-co-host-joe-scarborough-is-leaving-the-republican-party/?utm_term=.368ebcabba01

This could get interesting.

“You have to ask yourself, what exactly is the Republican Party willing to do?” Scarborough said to Colbert. “How far are they willing to go? How much of this country and our values are they willing to sell out?”

“Aren’t you a Republican?” Colbert asked.

“I am a Republican, but I’m not going to be a Republican anymore,” Scarborough said to loud applause from the audience. “I’ve got to become an independent.”

[JHB]

1. The same was true 20 years ago, Joe...

...so call yourself what you want, you are what you've been.

[Squinch]

2. I'd have been a lot more impressed if he had done this BEFORE he normalized and legitimized

a madman and told Ma and Pa Peoria that the madman would make a good president.