Scarborough: GOP presidential candidates are all ‘idiots’

[kpete]

Scarborough: GOP presidential candidates are all ‘idiots’

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Still in disbelief after the panel reenacted the Texas governor’s interview with Parade magazine, Mika Brzezinski was forthright in her assessment of the GOP field.

“I’m disturbed,” she told co-host Joe Scarborough. “You have a disturbing set of candidates in your party, I’m sorry. It’s disturbing. Either they are walking around with slogans or they’re crazy.”


Scarborough said he had “no defense” for those seeking the White House in his party.

“This is lunacy,” he said. “People will look back these candidates and just said, ‘What idiots. What total, absolute idiots.’ I’ll suspect we’ll do what Republicans do. All the idiots will be thrown overboard. We’ll end up nominating the really boring Gerald Ford, Bob Doyle, John McCain type and get Mitt Romney, and maybe lose. There’s got to be some sane conservatives out there.”

More:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/24/scarborough-gop-presidential-candidates-are-all-idiots/

[City Lights]

1. That goes for the whole of the GOP. It's not just their presidential candidates.

And that includes you, Joe!

[opihimoimoi]

2. The GOPers jus don get it...they are the losing side of things...their mode of

domination exploitation subjugation is outdated

[CTyankee]

3. don't be such a tool, joe! This stupidity didn't just happen alluva sudden.

You and your ilk brought this on, so don't act all outraged on us Dems!

Whatsover ye sow, so shall ye reap...

[Kingofalldems]

4. Uh oh--Here comes Bush

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. Jeb? He isn't an idiot?

:shrug:

[Zoeisright]

21. And Dim Son wasn't?

Stupidity is not an elimination for POTUS.

[rhett o rick]

26. Dont you pay attention? Jeb is the smart son according to Poppy. nm

[rhett o rick]

27. Agree. It still isnt to late for a whirle-wind campaign. nm

[DenverDad]

5. I'm wondering if their goal is to be the next President, or the next

Sarah Palin?

[justiceischeap]

6. I forget which weekend show I was watching, Up w/ Chris Hayes or

Bill Maher... anyway, one of the guests on one of these shows speculated that Cain was only in the race to sell books, promote his "brand," which would be himself all to get a either a lucrative Faux News deal or get more clients for his motivational speaking engagements. This person felt he wasn't a serious candidate for President.

[tblue37]

37. That was Toure on Bill Maher's show last Friday. nt

[louis-t]

7. Did he really say "Bob Doyle"?

:shrug:

[Richardo]

8. ...

I'm laughing my ass off. :rofl:

Because I have no problem believing he did.

[Motown_Johnny]

39. come on... that has to be a typo

doesn't it?


Edit to add, I watched the video. He said Dole


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789//vp/45016912#45019932

[1776Forever]

9. It is true but what also is true is the very deep passionate lunacy of those that will vote for them

It is unbelievable to me that those voters who cheer them on only look at who can yell the loudest about denying abortions, gay bashing and "no new taxes". It is so unnerving for so many of us on DU that these people will vote against their own needs just to appease the religious false value puppeteers. Makes one very ill and very sad:(

[DreamSmoker]

10. You know their Bad when????

When Scarborough admits it about the GOP Candidates.. You know these Folks are real Idiots...
Hell we knew that....

[Old and In the Way]

11. "There’s got to be some sane conservatives out there."

Sorry, Joe, they don't exist anymore. The new conservative wants a smaller government, but also want government to conduct a world wide crusade on Islam, create a 50' wall around the US to keep people out, and monitor the sex habits of 300MM US citizens. They are insane.

[tridim]

12. And the candidates waiting in the wings for 2016 are equally, if not more idiotic

They have nothing, except Diebold.

[gratuitous]

13. No defense, Joe? How about an explanation?

After all, I submit that it didn't "just happen" that the Republicans can't nominate a candidate for president who isn't an idiot, a total absolute idiot (to use your own characterization). Why do you suppose the Republicans are incapable of producing a candidate who is interested more in governance than in prostrate obeisance to the lunatic fringe and the out-of-control greedhead factions of the Republican Party? There's no shortage of Democrats willing to tell liberals to suck it, but the Republicans can't seem to bring themselves to reject their Nitwit Brigades.

Whyizzat, Joe?

[CTyankee]

17. I completely agree. Wasn't he one that encouraged the Tea Party?

That sure was an impetus to this stupidity, along with the hysterical reaction of having Obama as president...

[gratuitous]

22. If he didn't, I'd bet he didn't oppose the Tea Baggers

Despite the warnings (okay, maybe they weren't well-intentioned, but they were warnings) from us liberals that listening to the Tea Baggers wasn't a good idea, there were plenty of Republicans and their conservative mouthpieces who just laughed at our discomfiture. Well, you have a whole coop full of chickens coming home to roost now, Republicans. Enjoy their poop on your heads, because that's what you can look forward to for as long as you don't stand up to the greedy and the dimwits.

We told you this would happen.

[CTyankee]

25. Joe, in particular, was warned right there on his show, by Mika's dad.

He warned way back in 09 that if and when the people really started to suffer there might be riots in the streets...

[Motown_Johnny]

40. I can explain it... Voodoo Economics worked and now all the (R)s are mindless zombies

[EC]

14. The answer to your last question, Joe...

is No, there aren't any sane Republicans.

“This is lunacy,” he said. “People will look back these candidates and just said, ‘What idiots. What total, absolute idiots.’ I’ll suspect we’ll do what Republicans do. All the idiots will be thrown overboard. We’ll end up nominating the really boring Gerald Ford, Bob Doyle, John McCain type and get Mitt Romney, and maybe lose. There’s got to be some sane conservatives out there.”

[SpiralHawk]

15. Took him long enuf to smell the turds (R)

Jeez...

[Atman]

16. Joe has been one of The Idiots' biggest enablers.

Despite his bullshit to the contrary, he has supported virtually every one of them at some time or another, until the bullshit was stacked too high. He has spent the last three years doing his best to cut Obama's legs out from underneath him. He loved Palin until it became inconvenient. He love Bachmanm until the idiocy she spewed because simply insane-sounding. He's loved Perry, Mittens...he's backed every GOP candidate, no matter how stupid they sound. Now he's surprised there is nothing but stupid-sounding GOP candidates. Joe, time to understand that you have an important place behind that desk. You speak to large (well, in MSNBC's case, somewhat large) numbers of people, and your words actually matter to some people, one way or another. You and your other corporate media colleagues have promoted the crazy for so long and -- SURPRISE -- crazy has gone mainstream. STFU and just tell us another story about how awesome things were when YOU were in Congress, and the Government shut down twice.

.

[Kahuna]

33. Joe never loved bachmann, and never ever loved perry. He has

hated perry even before he officially announced.

[JCMach1]

19. My outrage meter burnt out a number of years back- now my facepalm arm

might need surgery soon...

[Zoeisright]

20. No, Joe "Dead Intern" Scar. There are NO "sane repukes".

In order to be a repuke, you have to be insane. And stupid, and greedy, and selfish, and mean.

[Bandit]

23. "There’s got to be some sane conservatives out there.”

I would not bet on that at all.. Not even a doughnut.....

[The Magistrate]

24. Where, Ma'am, Did This 'There Has To Be A Sane Conservative Out There' Nonesense Get Started?

The right wing in the United States has been literally, certifiably insane for decades....

[rhett o rick]

28. Well Joe, it takes one to know one. nm

[sellitman]

29. As bad as they all are, none of them murdered their intern.

Fucking murderer!

[Broderick]

31. Ziinnnnggg

True dat.

[Xolodno]

30. Well Joe...

...that's what happens when you chuck all the "RINO's" for not being ideologically pure and the "base" (which really means the fanatics) deludes themselves listening to Rush and FOX that they are actually the majority despite the purges. When your party turns so hard right that your hero Ronald Reagan wouldn't even pass the muster today...something has gone terribly wrong.

[Canuckistanian]

36. Ding ding ding

We have a winner.

That's exactly what happened.

[Bucky]

32. Joe's wanting Jeb.

I assume he doesn't want it himself cause he couldn't handle the pay cut (nor the prestige cut involved in getting the nomination)

[Blue Owl]

34. Remember when you could learn things on the TV?

Tell us something we don't know, Scumbarrow...

[Douglas Carpenter]

35. BRAVO! so the last horse finally made it to the finish line

[Tikki]

38. To know one (or all)...

....takes one...


Tikki

[DCKit]

41. He's being far too kind. nt

[progressoid]

42. Uh, Joe. It's not limited to your candidates.

It's your entire party.