Scarborough "flinches" when he hears Obama and the Democrats say...

[kentuck]

"We tried it their way. Their old tired policies have been tried and they didn't work. The people voted for change..."

Scarborough and Buchanan were discussing it this morning on his TV show. Joe argued that conservative policies had not been tried. George W Bush spent us into the largest deficits of all time. But no one told him that it was cutting taxes and not paying for wars and large military adventures that got us into this mess. George Bush was Ronald Reagan on speed. It was pure conservative ideology and not one Republican raised a voice in eight years, as they voted to raise the debt limit over and over and over again. There's a catastrophic flaw in your ideology, Joe.

[spanone]

1. if he fllinches....keep saying it.

[AndyA]

2. Poor Joe. He just doesn't get it.

And then there's that poor dead girl who was found in his Florida office.

My, my, so much to flinch about...

[Deep13]

3. We won, you lost, get over it. nt

[Solly Mack]

4. Remember when neo-cons and other such ilk started distancing themselves from Bush?

It was long before he left office, too.

How he wasn't conservative enough. How Bush strayed from the core beliefs or needed actions - blah, blah, blah?

They would say things like, "Bush failed, not conservatism"?


All the while backing Bush on everything and anything?

We knew this was coming.

[ginnyinWI]

5. never let them get away from Bush!

Hang him around their necks. They'd like to think that he was not a true conservative, that somehow he didn't "count". But I agree--he was a pure conservative all the way. While Reagan talked a good conservative line and actually governed moderately, Bushie-boy talked moderately (to get elected) and governed ultra-conservatively. Fail!

[Deep13]

7. They should be shackled to Bush's political corpse. nt

[ginnyinWI]

10. The analogy I was thinking of was

when a farmer would have a dog who would kill chickens. He'd hang the dead chicken around the dog's neck and make him walk around with it until it rotted and fell off. That would cure the dog. Don't think it would cure the repubs, but at least other people will not be allowed to forget!

[Johonny]

6. What IS conservativism and what they think it IS

are two different things. That's always been the irrational part of Republicans. They're party has always been fiscally irresponsible.

[Deep13]

8. Conservatism is the philisophical quest to make virtues from selfishness and ignorance. nt

[Kahuna]

9. All the republicans do. I sent an email reminding him that Obama ran

on repuke incompetance and malfeasance. So, it's really disengenuous for him to claim that Obama isn't being "non-partisan" when he reminds them that they created this mess.