Scarborough issues dire warning to Republicans: RETRACT TRUMP ENDORSEMENTS *NOW* OR PERISH

[BadGimp]

Source: DailyKos

“If the Speaker of the House continues to endorse a man making racist statements and really tearing away at the very fabric of Madison's Separation of Powers, that talks about an independent judiciary? The House of Representatives IS IN DANGER.”

Read more: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/7/1535421/-Scarborough-issues-dire-warning-to-Republicans-RETRACT-TRUMP-ENDORSEMENTS-NOW-OR-PERISH

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This feels like a turning point to me.

[Journeyman]

1. It is indeed a turning point and no one seems to be at the wheel . . .

should be a delightfully frightful wreck. . .

[Mass]

2. Well, if Scarborough had not given an open tribune to Trump those last 10 months, he may be in

position to have an authoritative voice on the topic. But for the last 10 month, Mika and him have been fawning on Trump success and attacking every other Republicans as flawed (this is correct, but a lot less than Trump). So, color me unimpressed.

[Cosmocat]

16. Jesus

it wasn't more than a week or two ago and the simple minded psycho was writing op eds all puffy chested about how he had said he was going to win all along.

[baran]

3. Says Scarborough . . .

who is partly responsible for Trump being where he is now. Millions of dollars worth of free air time for Trump's call-in interviews. Seems like just recently he's woken up and figured out what a monster he helped create. Now trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube.

[Dustlawyer]

34. Trump was moved into this position on purpose to assure Hillary would win. TPTB want her and

thought that someone as bad and scary as Trump would scare everyone to vote for her. I believe that this was the plan all along.

[Ruby the Liberal]

47. You aren't alone

It has been really hard to take this election seriously.

[GOLGO 13]

58. It's a masterful plan.

[TeamPooka]

4. I vote for perish. nt

[Beacool]

5. It was clear from the very beginning that the Republican establishment didn't want Trump,

but what choice do they really have? Republican voters have spoken and large numbers of them chose Trump. They can't deny him the nomination, appoint someone else, and hope that people will follow their choice like lemmings. I think that party leaders are coming to the realization that they are screwed. Either they lose because most rational people would prefer Hillary, even those who dislike her, over the narcissistic buffoon who seems to revel in his bigotry, sexism and xenophobia. Or, they can deny Trump the nomination and watch angry Republicans stay home or vote Democratic to spite the party.

On the other hand, this is great news for Democrats.

[TwilightZone]

12. In a twistedly amusing way, it's a side effect of Citizens United.

Basically, any idiot can join the race on the right now if they have some decent sponsors. The packed field was part of the reason they ended up with Trump. If the field had been much smaller, they would have had more opportunities to cut him off.

Of course, it didn't help that the field was loaded with bozos. When your least objectionable candidate (maybe) is John Kasich, and the vast majority are much worse, you've got problems.

[Beacool]

14. All good points.

Citizens United is a blot on SCOTUS. How could they ever uphold such a case?

As for Trump, I pray that there are enough rational people left in this country to realize what a disaster he would be as president.

[TwilightZone]

17. I think there are.

A lot of factors will come into play between now and November, of course, but I think Trump will have difficulty maintaining even the support he has, considering that he's offended nearly everyone and continues to make bizarre statements. That being said, paraphrasing George Carlin, there are a lot of just plain goofy people in this country.

As for CU, it was those activist judges legislating from the bench that the GOP is always bleating about. It's ok, though - they were "their" activist judges legislating from the bench.

[modestybl]

20. HRC relies on Citizens United...

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/04/07/19521/how-citizens-united-helping-hillary-clinton-win-white-house

Should the FBI investigations not impede her nomination, and if she manages to get past Trump (doubtful at this point), she will have to prostrate herself to the same big $$ interests buying up Repubs. The status quo only gets entrenched with her. Unless you think Goldman Sach gives $$ away out of the goodness of their hearts.

[catbyte]

22. You really believe that Trump would beat Clinton? How do you figure that?

[Hiraeth]

26. because of post #5 above, specifically

Republican voters have spoken and large numbers of them chose Trump.

[TwilightZone]

41. Republicans are the smallest of the three main voting blocs in the country.

A plurality of votes in a primary season involving a small fraction of the smallest major voting bloc in the country doesn't equate to success in November. Two entirely different things.

[Hiraeth]

42. damn sure ain't true where I live. Red county. Red state. Clinton HATING territory.

It will galvanize the grassroots coalition like nothing you have ever seen before.

[TwilightZone]

44. The plural of anecdote is not data.

And your county is not representative of anything more than your county.

[Hiraeth]

45. don't take my word for it. watch and see.

[catbyte]

53. It won't matter if 90% of voters in your very red state votes for Trump. They only have a finite

number of electoral votes, and I can't see any blue or purple state going for that colossal gasbag. He has to win at least 40% of non-white male votes, but I don't see that happening--especially with his infantile whining about that "Mexican" judge. Oh, he has the bagger bigot vote in the bag, but there are many more of us than there are of them.

[modestybl]

28. They are tied now...

...with all the bad news coming out on Trump, and all the "good news" coming out on HRC.

How can they even be close? Sanders still beats Trump by double digits, which he has consistently done all year long.

Because HRC is a highly flawed, fragile candidate, with 2 FBI investigations over her head (emails and Clinton Foundation). The conflicts of interest over Foundation donors, who had business in front of the State Dept, who were responsible for a $100-200M increase in their personal wealth and who donate to her campaign PAC, will continue to roll out. Even if no indictments are handed down (Valerie Plame outing only yielded an OoJ charge on Libby), HRC is so obviously compromised by the Banking, Fossil fuel, Defense contractor, etc. donors who would be her primary constituents.

[thucythucy]

27. The irony is that "Citizens United" was an anti-Hillary superpac

dedicated to destroying Clinton during the time she appeared to be the 2008 nominee. It was their intent to air a rabidly right wing, anti-Hillary filmic rant, as deluded and depraved as anything Dinish D'Souza ever dreamed up, that led to the Court saying that to deny their right to purchase unlimited air time to destroy Clinton was a violation of the First Amendment, in short, that corporations have rights just like people.

Yeah, Hillary is taking advantage of what is now the law, but let's remember it all began as an "anybody but Hillary" crusade. I get the feeling she remembers as well, which could have interesting consequences in the future.

I'm hoping that Trump is toast, given his own deluded ranting. Really, you'd have to be twelve shades of idiot to vote for that vicious buffoon.

[tblue37]

36. It is also the result of 3 decades worth of deliberately propagandizing

their base, encouraging their rage and resentment and demonizing anyone who didn't stick 100% to the script. Roger Ailes, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and the other RW mouths were always a cancer on the Republican Party, rotting them from within.

[TwilightZone]

38. Agreed. Trump is quite representative of what they've become. He's just more overt about it

than the rest of them are - and than they want him to be.

[wordpix]

55. so true-- the money-elite created "the base" of fundie, anti-abortion, gun-toting zealots

They got what the deserve in a candidate.

I must say that I agreed with Trump in his speech tonight about lack of jobs and falling apart infrastructure. But the hypocritical buffoon helped to create this mess with his own Trump-brand-made-in-Mexico-and-China business.

[ancianita]

6. No turning point. Just the usual cleanup of one of the more egregious examples of

their public stupidity.

Scarborough interns will be looking up comments online to help him figure out how to articulate his fear-driven motives so he can look smarter about it all tomorrow.

Thanks for the post.

[HeartoftheMidwest]

11. Did you mean...?

"Scarborough interns will be looking up comments online to help him figure out how to articulate his fear-driven motives so he can begin planning his return to political office."

fyt.

[ancianita]

29. ...

That happens, doesn't it!

[herding cats]

7. They're so screwed.

VOX has a nifty little simulator that shows what it's like to be a high profile Republican under a Trump candidacy.

I'll link it for those who may want take part in the experience.

A highly accurate simulation of what it’s like to be a Republican in the age of Trump
http://www.vox.com/2016/6/7/11876198/republicans-respond-trump

[DrToast]

8. Scarborough is hard to figure out...

On one hand I'm used to people in politics talking out of both sides of their mouths, but Joe seems sincere when he does it more so than anyone else. It's usually pretty easy to spot the BS, but I can't tell with him sometimes.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. Uh oh is Rump not calling in for his Morning Blow anymore?

[TwilightZone]

10. So, he spent months kissing Trump's ass and now he wants to pretend that never happened?

Note to Joe: this is the same guy you were kissing up to for the past few months. He's been saying stuff like this from nearly the moment he joined the race.

[AntiBank]

13. Trump is laying out territorial pissings.

He is seeing exactly how far he can punk and bully the GOP elected establishment, the press, and the resistance. He also wants to goad the left and the minorities into violence to further his xenophobic power slant.

[Stellar]

15. PERISH!!! eom

[modestybl]

18. That's rich... after spearheading a pro-Trump media blitz...

...all this past year, Congressman Dead Intern now discovers he's helped create a monster.
Good luck trying to restrain him.

[mitty14u2]

19. Remember how many people loved Hitler, Scarborough loved Bush

What Scarborough is afraid of is House and Senate and not to mention the low approval republicans all ready have, less then 20% positive, not to mention loosing control of the supreme court. Republicans are FREAKING OUT!

[Chakab]

21. This is the same speaker who parroting the racist theories about minority underachievement

from "The Bell Curve" not that long ago.

This is what the party is all about Joe. Stop pretending otherwise just because Trump is uncouth enough to say it out loud without using code words.

[Liberalagogo]

23. "IN DANGER"

"In danger" of what? Turning to the Light Side of the Force?

[NurseJackie]

30. In danger of being voted out of office ... they've already conceded the Presidency, but ...

... they're hoping to limit the damage in congress.

[Liberalagogo]

48. My Point is

that what any gooper thinks of as "danger" is the best for everyone else.

[NurseJackie]

49. I see what you mean.

[ailsagirl]

24. Why the turnabout??

This is getting very bizarre

[forest444]

25. It's very decent of Joe to say that.

But we all know that, to most of today's radicalized Republican electorate, Trump's racist salvos are music to their ears.

Their only problem with those is that they don't hear them more often.

[d_legendary1]

31. The mouth breathers are not going to listen to Scarborough

They might listen to O-Really but not Morning Blow. He's a lib-erual, don't cha know!

[Dont call me Shirley]

32. I could tell lately the media is turning on trump.

[onecaliberal]

33. The media created this Frankenstein for money and now they can't stop it

[book_worm]

35. But what's new? This is the same Trump as six months or a year ago

Why did they endorse him anyway?

[Sunlei]

40. republicans never expected ALL others to cry and quit. what did they have 20? running?

Trump must have had huge dirt on all of them.

[cachukis]

37. Does Trump really want to be president?

Some other poster revealed early on that Trump was hoping to only hit double digits in NH. Trump's remarks from the onset have been over the top; not serious for a presidential candidate.
My speculation then, was that he wanted to spoof the prognosticators; he wanted to out the fools who supported the vacuity of republican demagoguery.
His ego has been sucked in.
How could any serious candidate lay bare his party's idiosyncracies and challenge them to support their own delusions without ulterior motives?
Trump is a winner and had to plan for an implosion.
He has prepared his escape as the hoax of all time.
If I am wrong here, then what hath god wrought?

[Sunlei]

43. Like I said when Trump first jumped on Republican stage. 'This is a gift from God'

Thought I'd have to help it along in primary vote, but nope- trump slayed ALL the Rs in record time.

[Hiraeth]

46. performance art.

[Sunlei]

39. who has the shrill voice now republicans?

[MADem]

50. Scarborough spent months fluffing that clown up--and now he wants to pretend he is principled?

A big reason why Trump got as much traction as he did was all the pre-commute attention that Morning Joe and Mika showed to Trump, that was watched by all the Trumpeteers with their a.m. coffee.

[merrily]

51. Is Joe surprised now that Trump is racist? Joe and Mike have been shilling for Trump for months.

Trump made racist comments early on-rapists, etc.

[wordpix]

54. totally inaccurate that Mika has been shilling for Trump

Any Morning Joe I've seen, he's been waffling on Trump until today but Mika has most def been opposed to the dangerous buffoon.

[merrily]

56. Even worse if Mika switched after Trump had the nom pretty much locked up.

I have not watched Joe recently, but Mika and he were very definitely both shilling for Trump. If Mika switched after Trump had the nom pretty much locked up, she's even worse than I thought.

[harrose]

52. Why isn't he in jail?

He just threatened every Republican who supports Trump with death.

Lock him away for life. I'm certainly no fan of Trump, but you can't go threatening people with death.

[DonCoquixote]

57. Laugh if you want to

but how much you wanna bet Joe Scab is trying to position himself as the "moderate" candidate for 2020?