Former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough is quitting Trumps Republican Party
Source: Raw Story
A prominent former Republican politician and cable news host has announced he is leaving the GOP.
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was a three-and-a-half term member of Congress from Florida, but is leaving his party despite his prominent media perch as a conservative.
The Executive Producer of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert announced the bombshell would come on tonights show.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/former-gop-congressman-joe-scarborough-is-quitting-trumps-republican-party/
pirateshipdude
(967 posts)7962
(11,841 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)We need a little hard dirt on our side and Ill be the first to defend my behavior.. We are fighting LUNATICS Who think Christ is coming back.. Fuck them!
sheshe2
(83,940 posts)FreeState
(10,584 posts)Link to tweet
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)Where the fuck were you when it really mattered?
Sucking on the CNN money hose, that's where..
Another point...He said several times "MY PARTY."....It just occurred to me..some/many? people, on all sides, seem to talk about a political party like -- I mean they call it.. "MY PARTY." Like it's a ...club, or something.. I'm sure, now, folks here as well....
Jeeze,, I just can not imagine that... Don't get me wrong. I am a registered Democrat and always voted for and supported, donated to Democrats, and have worked for several over the past few decades.... but.. I guess I just never thought of it that way and just woke up to the concept that other people DO identify that way... interesting....
Maybe I should re-think myself...
Humm,, just thinking about that... It's like MY TEAM, I guess.. Are the BATAVIA MUCKDOGS 'my team?" Humm...
Anyway, Joe, sort of..better late than never...I guess....Oh, i wish you wouldn't interrupt Mika so often on your TV entertainment show..
radical noodle
(8,013 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Thanks..
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)He sees the ratings going to us liberals and had to do this for his show's long term popularity. I wish people like Rex Tillerson, who I believe only became Secretary of State to get the Exxon Russia deal through, will see that ship has already sailed now and resign. There will come a flood of politicians trying to avoid the toxic soup that the Republican brand will represent.
lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)I wonder if Mika was a factor...just sayin'...
Skittles
(153,212 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 12, 2017, 02:45 AM - Edit history (1)
but TRUMP is just TOO FUCKING MUCH
pirateshipdude
(967 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Apparently, treason is the line. It's good to know he at least has a line, I guess. Most Republicans don't.
Skittles
(153,212 posts)YOU ARE CORRECT; yes INDEED
Chemisse
(30,817 posts)I wonder who he voted for in the general; I don't think he's ever said.
hlthe2b
(102,408 posts)BainsBane
(53,074 posts)JI7
(89,276 posts)So in a way it is good if even those types can start to leave him.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)BainsBane
(53,074 posts)under Gingrich. They were the Tea Party of their day. So only in a context where the alt-right denounces protesters as "anti-fa" (anti-fascist), indicating they accept the label of fascist, can he be considered a moderate.
I think of moderate Republicans as like Susan Collins.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Compared with how wacko Republicans got in the last decade, he's a liberal! To the far right, he is a liberal.
Been watching him for years. He is moderate, IMO. Not on all issues, maybe, but overall.
onetexan
(13,067 posts)Please someone post the story once it airs tonight. I don't have cable. Would love to hear what he has to say. I hope many more Republicans will follow his lead. Yes he was a bit annoying at times before, but it takes courage to stand up to his own party. I applaud him for doing what he did.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The key interviews are also uploaded to Youtube.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)What America needs more than anything is for prominent Republicans to work from within the party to change it, and say Trump must go. Now, he may have shed his last connection to the deplorables. Some may have given him at least a shred of credibility and learned something, that not all Republicans are Trumpublicans. Now it may be the excuse many need to shut him off and call him a traitor fake news spreader.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)Botany
(70,594 posts)Joe worked to keep the rightful person from beoming President in 2000.
Remember bush v Gore?
BigmanPigman
(51,638 posts)Too late dude!
Mickju
(1,805 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)"Im not leaving the Party, the Party left me" !
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Ilsa
(61,700 posts)fanatically worship God, Talibornigans who think women should not vote, and the more modern Ronald Reagan gop that is better educated, more open-minded about race and gender, but still conservative and willing to rip poor people off to feed the rich.
sellitman
(11,607 posts)I wonder what's she's thinking about it?
Oh wait......
mobeau69
(11,159 posts)But it was only right we should celebrate and rejoice, because your brother here was dead and a hateful Republican and has come to life; he was lost and is found."
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)It would not surprise me to hear Nicole Wallace is next.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)I'll give credit where it's due. At least one Republicans sees how disgusting the current GOP is and can no longer stand by it.
murielm99
(30,773 posts)A man of honor would go right out and register as a Democrat.