Scarborough...for once I hope he's got his finger on the pulse...

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/04/04/quote_of_the_day.html

Quote of the Day

"Nobody thinks Romney's going to win. Let's just be honest. Can we just say this for everybody at home? Let me just say this for everybody at home. The Republican establishment -- I've yet to meet a single person in the Republican establishment that thinks Mitt Romney is going to win the general election this year. They won't say it on TV because they've got to go on TV and they don't want people writing them nasty emails. I obviously don't care. But I have yet to meet anybody in the Republican establishment that worked for George W. Bush, that works in the Republican congress, that worked for Ronald Reagan that thinks Mitt Romney is going to win the general election."

-- Joe Scarborough, on Morning Joe.

[dkf]

1. He calls it as he sees it. Good for him.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Not sure we can trust Dead Intern Joe

But we can hope he's right.

[polichick]

6. I don't understand why the family of that intern...

...backed off - did they just accept the idea that she fell and died?

[jeff47]

8. Once the ME called it "natural causes" there wasn't a whole lot they could do. (nt)

[polichick]

9. You can make a whole lot of noise - there must be more to this story.

[jeff47]

12. To what end?

Ok, you've made a lot of noise. Now what?

There won't be a trial. Noise won't bring her back from the dead. In fact, your noise could be considered defamatory and end up getting you sued.

[polichick]

14. I would think you could fight for a more thorough investigation...

Perhaps what happened here is similar to the kind of "investigation" that went on in Sanford, FL.

Did this happen in Scarborough's hometown?

[jeff47]

18. Once the ME declared it natural, there was no way to have a more thorough investigation.

Basically there's no mechanism to 'appeal' the autopsy results. And it's not like W's DOJ would investigate a Republican.

[Major Hogwash]

10. I watched Scarbrow this morning to see what he was going to say.

And he was angry. He was visibly upset. The 3 political pundits that he had invited to be there this morning on the set with him, all told him that it was over. They said that it was inevitable, they added that Romney had a much better organization, they reminded Scarbrow that Romney had outspent Santorum 5 to 1 in Wisconsin. And then they said that even though Santorum will hang on until the end, in the end, it will be Romney that will be the nominee.

So, Scarbow started talking like he was a WWII General. He said that if he were Romney he would "carpet bomb" Santorum in Pennsylvania. He said, "I'd call out the B-52s and I would drop everything I had on Santorum in Pennsylvania."
Which is pretty much what Romney did to Santorum in Illinois last month and this last week in Wisconsin.
So, one thing is for sure, Romney doesn't need Scarbrow's advice.

As Howard Cosell said once, "He has a grasp on the obvious."
He is the dumbest, most ill-informed, ignorant person on MSNBC. He has nothing to add to the conversation.
And the little act that he and Mika put on each morning, where she tries to say something that sounds halfway liberal for 15 seconds before Scarbrow interrupts her and then he goes off on a 5 minute rightwing, redmeat rant is ludicrous, pedestrian, and ancient.

I only tune in to watch him on days like this where he looks at the camera with his "I don't have a fucking clue what is going on" look. Just to see his little beady eyes, framed with his little nerdy horn-rimmed glasses, grow smaller and smaller on his weasely face. He is the worst political pundit on that channel and he has no morals whatsoever.

[CTyankee]

15. You are so right! He was just in a rant today! Accusing Mika of interrupting HIM? WTF?

Everybody on MJ today seemed pissed off. Or off balance. Tina Brown was having trouble getting a full sentence off without stuttering over her words (my guess: hangover or lack of preparation or both).

Joe is ill informed because he WILL NOT be INFORMED. He simply refuses to accept the obvious and inevitable. Just doesn't and won't.

[southernyankeebelle]

3. I agree but then again the money that will be thrown by Mittens and company to discredit the

president makes me wonder. People will believe anything about this president that isn't right. Never underestimate stupid with the republican party.

[polichick]

4. They didn't "win" in 2000 or 2004 either - but that doesn't...

...mean they didn't take the White House.

[hlthe2b]

5. That tiny short segment was the only sane moment for Schmoe this morning.

He was incredibly irritating (even more so than normal) in his unhinged attacks on President Obama's (of course he NEVER refers to him as President) recent speech rightfully attacking RYan's budge plan. His constant interruptions and talking over Mika as she tries to get through the "script" are beyond annoying.

I guess she has decided she needs the job because I swear I would have decked him on camera long ago if I were him.

[CTyankee]

16. She tried. He accused her of interrupting him. I thought she might throw the contents of her

coffee mug at him. I would have.

[Douglas Carpenter]

7. it reminds me of the 1984 attitude of Democrats toward Fritz Mondale

Former Vice President Mondale passed all the minimal requirements of the mainstream Democratic constituency ideological litmus test. The party establishment all wanted everybody to rally around him. The major constituency groups pretty much all endorsed him. But nobody was the least bit enthusiastic and what's more - nobody thought he was going to win. Unlike Goldwater for the Republicans or McGovern for the Democrats - neither Mondale then or Romney now has a band of devoted true believers who were prepared to at least fight the good fight and march into hell for the heavenly cause. There was and is no such thing as a Mondale Democrat anymore than there is any such thing as a Romney Republican.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. Wow

I sure hope he doesn't end up dead under "mysterious circumstances" with comments like THAT!

[Arkana]

13. Joeblow fancies himself some sort of "moderate" who's above such political pettiness.

He would have no reason to lie about this, I don't think.

[CTyankee]

17. He gets caught in this all the time. He squawks the RW line. His expert guests show him

with charts and all where he is wrong, or they successfully rebut him. And he just goes on blathering the same damn thing over and over again.

He's got nuthin'.