As I said, Scarborough remains full of swill (link)

[misanthrope]

He has a piece in today's Washington Post explaining how he thinks Trump is killing the Republican Party.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-killing-the-republican-party/2017/07/16/048056dc-68c4-11e7-a1d7-9a32c91c6f40_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.4df2e2bef851

Amidst his bloviation sits his insistence that "when I left Congress in 2001, I praised my party's successful efforts to the balance the budget for the first time in a generation." There was no mention of President Bill Clinton who led the way toward that balanced budget.

He said neither "William Buckley nor Ronald Reagan would recognize this movement" of Republicans standing by a politico who promulgated racism.

He called Nancy Pelosi "the most liberal House speaker in history."

The beauty of the op-ed piece though is in the comments it elicited. One poster wasted few words in getting to the heart of matters.

"The truth is your party was killing itself off for decades, by pursuing the worst, most base fears and prejudices of easily manipulated conservative Americans and using those prejudices and a disgraceful wedge issues to divide us. Trump, bluntly, is the inevitable outcome of a party whose loyalty is not to our nation, our Constitution, or our citizens but to power and money above all else. Your former party's abject racism, profound, disgusting misogyny, stoking of extremist Christians who despise intellectual accomplishments and education and prefer Biblical parables and ignorance, hate and condemn the poor, vilify LGBTs, has obliterated our former technological and intellectual standing while the rest of the world passes us by."

Other commentary points to Scarborough's oh-so-proud Congressional class of 1994 and their leader Newt Gingrich as key players in bringing things to this point. You can read it all for yourself.

[JI7]

1. i never thought he turned liberal because he turned against trump . i think it's a good thing that

conservatives who i disagree with on just about everything would turn against Trump.

[misanthrope]

2. Well, I recall hearing and reading occasional commentary

in a number of places that those like Scarborough might end up siding with Democrats or possibly even switching allegiances. I don't think that is the case. I think Scarborough is simply trying to milk the situation to earn himself some personal p.r.

[JI7]

3. there are always people who view things in black/white. it's like if some usually right wing idiot

on fox or cnn says something good they think they should get a show on msnbc.

[OnDoutside]

4. Use him like he uses everyone else. There aren't that many

Republicans out there against Trump.

Scarborough has regaled us in the past about how he would ramp up the red meat for the religious right in his district, at election time. Its only a game to him, he's more similar to Trump than he realises.

[misanthrope]

5. He is good with spouting garbage

I think the only thing he ever served was his own ego and certainly not the public in any capacity. Not even those who were his firmly devoted constituents.

[WinkyDink]

6. Republicans balanced the budget?! Is he nuts?! Does he explain then why Bush and the REPUBLICANS

blew it all to Hell immediately following Bill Clinton??

[brush]

7. Yeah, he conveniently "forgot" the huge budget surplus Clinton left for Bush...

who of course, as you said, squandered it.