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

[kpete]

MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday called on Republican leaders to retract their endorsements of presumptive presidential0 nominee Donald Trump.

"You have to start calling him out today," said Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida, adding that GOP leaders can't allow Trump to "run roughshod over what remaining national reputation we have as a national party."

"You have to start calling him out and saying you're going to retract your endorsement of him today," Scarborough said, predicting Republicans are at risk of losing control of the Senate, House, White House and governorships on the current course.

"Republicans, call him out, back away from those endorsements, make him back down on the Muslim ban, make him back down on this racist comment that he's made about a man born in Indiana, saying he's incapable of being a fair judge because of where his parents were born," he said.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/282462-scarborough-calls-on-gop-to-back-away-from-trump
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/06/07/msnbcs-joe-scarborough-delivers-stern-message-to-republican-officials-about-trump-you-have-to-start-calling-him-out-or-else/
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/7/1535421/-Scarborough-issues-dire-warning-to-Republicans-RETRACT-TRUMP-ENDORSEMENTS-NOW-OR-PERISH

[hrmjustin]

1. Scarborough is responsible for pushing this guy.

The stain is on Scarborough!

[tonyt53]

4. Yep, he gave him a pass with his first candidate interview with him.

When Trump asked "no hard questions", Joe complied.

[Raster]

5. On one hand: as a "journalist," he just loved all those Trumpian bon mots that drew ratings...

...and helped enrich his personal coffers, but as a card-carrying Republican, he has to live with the shame that the pompadoured Orange One with the big fucking mouth is now his party's "candidate."

[emulatorloo]

6. Yeah, agreed. non-stop Trump promotion from him and 'liberal' Mika.

Note how Joe is worried about the 'reputation' of the Party. Lindsey Graham's un-endorsement of Trump was about the well-being of the country.

Note: Def not a fan of Lindsey Graham so please no knee jerk posts putting words into my mouth.

[MrModerate]

35. Lindsey Graham often has moments of sanity.

Why they haven't thrown him out of the party is a mystery. It must be all those other moments they love him for.

[LuckyTheDog]

30. And it begins.

[MrModerate]

36. Armistead had better hair . . .

And a better hat.

[dicksmc3]

31. Scarbutt is an idiot!!

Joe and Mika suck big time!! They are typical republican commentators that MSNBC is beginning to bring on board. This will be the next Fox station in a year or so. Sorry fans of Rachael and Chris Hayes, they are turning to the DARK SIDE also just to keep their money coming in. I think Rachael makes BIG BUCKS I don't quite know how much Chris Hayes makes but it must be enough to have him start
covering the Repubs in a FAVORITE way!!

[Cosmocat]

34. Scarborough IS Trump

even this bit, and I watched it live, he did everything Trump does.

He screamed and yelled, cut off people when they tried to talk, he turned red faced and bullied everyone around him.

THIS is how self unaware republicans are.

The issue is not Trump.

The issue is that Trump is the out and out embodiment of their party.

They want to say how Trump needs to apologize to this Judge, but that is just more of what they do.

Babble on with completely empty rhetoric of how they are the party of lincoln or reagen, try to continue that pretty facade, but still be who they are underneath it all.

Until they stand up and take responsibility for what their party is, it is all just more of their infantile bullshit.

[beachbumbob]

2. So fitting...joe gave trump a free ride foe years...he owns it and GOP owns it

Can't take back...

[MrModerate]

37. Unfortunately . . .

WE also have to share a universe with Trump and I'm not happy about that at all.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. The fear among republicans is heartening.

[freebrew]

40. I suppose so...

but I think tRump is exactly the same as the other idiots, sans 'GAWD!'.
Just openly admits his racism, without admitting it. ???

[Agnosticsherbet]

41. Trump does not talk in code, and he has no appeal outside of the whites conservatives.

[glowing]

7. I believe the Republicans will switch at the last minute and

Hillary will be toast. There are too many calls by people to "in-endorse" him and they ran a big story about him not having a campaign apparatus.

If they can run a "clean" looking Republican candidate who doesn't have FBI investigations or huge unfavorables, the Republicans will win.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. what happens to those that voted for T-Rump in such large numbers??

TeaBaggers across the country are going to to fall in line and not go ballistic?

this old geezer doesn't think so and I would welcome your scenario because I believe it would tear the Repubs apart for this election cycle...

but that's just an opinion

[Beartracks]

22. Everyone expects Bernie supporters to "fall in line"...

... behind an establishment candidate...

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[IronLionZion]

23. RW Republicans have been eating their establishment for the past 6 years

tea party extremists have overthrown most incumbent moderates in primaries the last few elections. that's why congress sucks so bad.

Democrats are not as hateful. Many of Bernie's supporters will hold our nose and vote D against the Republican candidate. Some might vote for the other woman in the race, Jill Stein, hopefully only if they are in non-swing states.

[Beartracks]

24. I agree that Dems are not as hateful.

And I certainly hope most Bernie supporters will get out and vote.

The way I see it, my job as an informed voter is to support and vote for the candidate who most closely matches my priorities and values on any given Election Day. During my state's primary, that was Sanders. If he is not our nominee, and my GE choice is between Trump or Clinton, then I will vote for Clinton, as on THAT ballot she much more closely matches my priorities and values when compared to Trump.

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[zebonaut]

9. Yes! PERISH!

Extinction happens to lots of Creatures



The gop certainly can't get its act together

[DuckBurp]

10. He refers to the Repub Party as "we"

But then, no one ever accused him of being an objective journalist.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. That's fair

Everybody knows that Scarborough was a member of the US House of Representatives as a Republican and has a bias. Under the circumstances, it underscores his plea to Republicans to back away from Trump.

[DuckBurp]

13. So, he's not part of the fourth estate now?

No longer in an elective office?

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Point taken

However, his background is common knowledge and shouldn't come as a surprise to you any more than it does to me. Neither would it come as a surprise to me if Mika Brzezinski, the daughter of President Carter's national security advisor, would identify as a Democrat.

[libodem]

11. .

[Doitnow]

14. Oh, Joe, you soooo deserve to agonize now.

[mopinko]

16. mark kirk is toast.

[3catwoman3]

18. Go, Tammy Duckworth!

I hope she takes her bionic legs and kick's Kirk's ass.

[mopinko]

19. she will.

tho kirk walked back his support for trump, but i think it is too late. he has the stench.

[mopinko]

20. chuckling to myself

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at the idea of an ad w her taking off her leg and smashing him w it. lol.

[3catwoman3]

21. Great...

...visual!

[drray23]

26. i root for her of course

but im kinda glad that some republicans are rejecting Trump. I dont know if Kirk is doing it out of principle or political calculation but since i am in a good mood today I will give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the former.

[CobaltBlue]

27. 3catwoman3—Illinois is the first Democratic pickup of a Republican-held U.S. Senate seat.

Illinois hasn’t elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate in a presidential year since 1972. That was when Richard Nixon was re-elected with 60 percent of the vote nationwide and even managed to eke out a win in Cook County (Chicago). That was uncommon.

The Republicans winning U.S. Senate elections from Illinois are doing so in midterm election years—and while the presidency is in the Democratic column.

I am guessing that Illinois’s junior U.S. senator, Republican Mark Kirk, knows this—and expects to get unseated by Democratic challenger Tammy Duckworth.

[3catwoman3]

17. I keep thinking of that sign in china shops -

Lovely to look at,
Delightful to hold.
But if you break it,
We mark it SOLD.

Here is my version for Trump -

Fugly to look at,
Fugly to hold.
Now that you broke it,
Consider it sold.

[LiberalLovinLug]

25. How long before he, like all Repukes, decides Trump is ok?

Especially if Trump wins the election, gawd forbid. Which would mean that Trump would have successfully gotten on board with the GOP strategists and reluctantly followed a careful script where he sticks to a few talking points, and never says another racist, sexist thing.


Joe is probably smart though doing this. Maybe its being submerged in a news network with other points of view. He's not in the RW bubble. I would hope that whomever wins the Democratic primary, probably Hillary, wins in a landslide. Because nothing would be more entertaining than watching Paul Ryan, and so many others backpeddling and admitting they 'made a mistake'. Except it would be looked at as more than a little mistake, it would tar those Republicans for the rest of their careers.

[Chemisse]

32. He thought Trump was okay a couple of weeks ago.

Scarborough goes back and forth on this, between butt kissing Trump and hollering about what is happening to the Party.

I expect by next week he'll be a good little Republican again.

[cynzke]

28. TOO LATE!

The cat is out of the bag. Even if Trump were to RETRACT everything he said, we can never trust him. The only thing Trump excels at is lying. ALL HAIL THE FRAUDSTER IN CHIEF!

[Botany]

29. You helped to build that "Trump Monster" Joe

BTW weren't you the one w/the dead intern on your office floor?

[PdxSean]

33. To hell with retractions!

Trump is the embodiment of all that is the Republican Party, and he didn't just bite into a racist, mysoginistic apple a few weeks ago and then suddenly become who he is. The DNC should loudly call BULLSHIT on any endorsement retractions and make sure every Republican stays in the same frame as Trump.

[King_Klonopin]

38. The next shoe to drop is his VP pick.

That will reveal a lot about his chances.

If he picks a Sarah Palin-like running-mate, then he is either 1) insane, 2) not taking this
seriously, 3) being intentionally provocative, or 4) never wanted to win in the first place
and only wanted the publicity to promote his "brand".

If he picks a Rick Scott type, then he is doubling-down on being a bully and an asshole.

It will probably be another rich, white, entitled, narcissistic, male jerk -- which doesn't
narrow it down much, I admit. But I am dying to see who he taps for VP.

My picks: Sheriff Arpaio from AZ , Clive Bundy, Caligula

[King_Klonopin]

39. You're peering into a mirror, Joe.

Truth is ugly, sometimes. He is the predictable result of your neoconservatism --
the extreme of huckster, liar, grifter, jingoist, tribalist, corporatist, self-serving, BS artist.

Political atavism at its finest. Back to the roots of conservatism: antebellum racism, xenophobia,
misogyny, anti-intellectualism, fear of change, fear of fear, social Darwinism... it's all there in
one disgusting, little, bloated, orange, bellicose package.

You can't distance yourself from him, Joe; he IS you.