David Petraeus, Joe Scarborough eyed for '12

[Emit]

Top Republicans, inspired by President Barack Obama’s recent drop in popularity, are newly optimistic about their chances of challenging him in 2012 and are focusing on some surprising names.

Some major donors and GOP strategists have approached Joe Scarborough, the host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe,” about a national run, according to party sources.

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, the Republican nominee in 1996, told POLITICO that he would like to see Army four-star Gen. David Petraeus ...run for president as a latter-day Ike...

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MSNBC’s Scarborough has been told by some big donors that he should make a run in 2012.

“I think he does have aspirations. That is half of it: You got to want it,” said CNBC’s Donny Deutsche, a regular guest on Scarborough’s morning show, who recently raised the idea with him off-camera. “In this day and age, it would almost make sense for (a presidential candidate) to come from media.”

Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough’s co-host, says she hears constant calls for him to run at events the two do together around the country.

“People think his voice and message match where people are today,” she told us.

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26741.html

Joe Scarborough? :rofl:

[ananda]

1. Bring it on!

Lol

[ThomWV]

2. I agree with that prediction

Actually I predicted Petraeus a couple of months ago. They will portray him as the modern-day Eisenhower.

[Ken Burch]

4. But...uh....didn't Eisenhower WIN the war he was in?

n/t.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Jaybus Frikkin Kerist on a Krutch ....... does it ALWAYS have to be POLITICO????

They are a RIGHT WING RAG as much as is Drudge. They just have better house manners.

Fuck them. Fuck their story. Fuck their owners.

[TuxedoKat]

5. Well I wondered why

Joe S suddenly started dying his hair, being nicer to everyone and being less confrontational too!

[Chemisse]

13. That explains why he suddenly is criticial of the right wing crazies

The first thing any level-headed republican candidate is going to want to do is shuck off the whack jobs.

[TuxedoKat]

17. Yes, you're right!

He has been criticizing all the repub crazies lately too. I forgot about that one. He is definitely trying
to appear more reasonable and mainstream but it's hard for me to think of Joe Scarborough as anything but a
mean-spirited bully.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

19. He also started wearing ties recently.

No more jacket & open collar.

[bridgit]

6. Maybe that will be the time to cover the insurgent field manual's...

dependency on bribing people with Viagra & cold hard cash just so long as they don't kill us and why Scarborough spoon fed all of it to the crazies

[brucefan]

7. Will Joe come clean

on the dead intern?

[stevedeshazer]

8. Lori Klausutis will become a household name in Amerika

For sure.

So Joe is their Great White Hope?

:rofl:

[NoodleyAppendage]

9. Yep! And, I'll do my part to spread the word that Scab Burrow is a sociopathic killer. n/t

J

[GoldenOldie]

10. I remember Ike. My very first vote went to Ike.

Petraeus is no Ike! Petraeus wouldn't even be qualified to be Ike's driver. Petraeus, is one of the many who Ike warned us of.....The military industrial complex.

[tsuki]

14. No, she won't. The Millionaire$Media will surpress the story as they

always have.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. The article says they don't even know if Petraeus is a Republican or a Conservative

""Well, I'd like to see Gen. Petraeus warm up,” Dole said. “I don't know anything about his politics, whether he has an interest. It's kind of a time for another Eisenhower, in my view."

This isn't the first time the popular general's name has been floated as a possible GOP savior — and it won't be the last. Petraeus has political impulses but hasn't revealed if they are conservative ones, and he might not even be a Republican."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26741_Page2.html#ixzz0QFR9l0bU

[ShortnFiery]

12. ...

:puke:

[notadmblnd]

15. would that be the intern killer?

[jaxx]

16. I told you so.

I've said all along that Joe is going to run for office. He's trying to be too moderate.

Do you suppose he'll put Beck on the ticket with him?

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. Naw, I see "Scarborough/Bachmann" as the operative ticket here.

Mickey B. and Saracuda are currently in a competition to see whose fruitcake has more nuts in it. Bachmann's winning.