The Briefing Room

General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: happyg on February 10, 2014, 06:05:51 pm

Title: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: happyg on February 10, 2014, 06:05:51 pm
Alex Pappas

Sources close to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough think he is seriously considering the prospect of leaving morning television to run for president in 2016.

Last week, Scarborough was all smiles — even letting out a laugh — on “Morning Joe” when Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol suggested on the air that Scarborough could represent the “Jon Huntsman lane” in a 2016 GOP primary. (RELATED: Kristol to Scarborough: You’ll run in 2016 to ‘fill the Jon Huntsman lane’)

But behind the scenes, those who know Scarborough are not laughing.

It’s widely believed at MSNBC — including among network brass — that Scarborough is actively mulling a presidential bid, sources said.

Meanwhile, some of Scarborough’s guests are beginning to talk him up as a possible candidate. Mark McKinnon — the former adviser to George W. Bush and John McCain who co-founded the group No Labels and appears on Morning Joe regularly — said he has talked about the prospect of a White House campaign with Scarborough “ever since we first met years ago, but always in the abstract.”

“On paper, he’s a great candidate,” McKinnon told The Daily Caller. “He has the kind of confidence, ideas and media savvy required to make it on the big stage. And he’d be a lot of fun to watch because he wouldn’t be afraid to mix it up with anybody on any topic. I think it would be highly entertaining and good for the party.”

Added McKinnon: “I think Joe looks at the potential field and thinks, ‘I could compete.’ And I think there are potential donors and supporters who think the same thing.”

Another Scarborough friend — a Republican who has appeared as a guest on Morning Joe many times — said the notion of a 2016 campaign is no joke: “I definitely wouldn’t fall in the laughing category.”

More at link:

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/10/joe-scarborough-believed-to-be-taking-idea-of-2016-presidential-bid-seriously/#ixzz2swZJoRd9
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: olde north church on February 10, 2014, 06:42:01 pm
sigh

 :shrug:
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: Relic on February 10, 2014, 06:42:36 pm
I've heard, but don't know the details, that it's financially lucrative to run for president, even if you don't have an ice cube's chance.
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: Gazoo on February 10, 2014, 06:57:06 pm

This is as much of a joke as Trump running.


What would people say if Rudy ran for POTUS 2016?

Or Jon Voight?
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: truth_seeker on February 10, 2014, 07:40:05 pm
Scarborough is studying the careers of Pat Buchanan, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin and thinks he may have discovered how to get a promotion and raise from the dregs of MSNBC:

Become a perpetual possible "candidate"

The term "low information" has origins,  with people unable to realize the boundaries of politics and entertainment.
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: xfreeper on February 10, 2014, 07:54:47 pm
This could possibly disrupt ralph naders plans
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: mountaineer on February 10, 2014, 08:28:58 pm
The word "delusional" comes to mind ...
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: Luis Gonzalez on February 10, 2014, 08:47:32 pm
we're a hop and a skip away from President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, aren't we?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd32mevlLNE
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: Relic on February 10, 2014, 09:01:05 pm
we're a hop and a skip away from President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, aren't we?

Idiocracy is disturbingly prophetic.
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: olde north church on February 10, 2014, 09:08:35 pm
we're a hop and a skip away from President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, aren't we?


Should be required viewing.  Some would get it.  Hopefully enough to make a difference.
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: Luis Gonzalez on February 10, 2014, 09:12:38 pm
Should be required viewing.  Some would get it.  Hopefully enough to make a difference.

If you have a few minutes, this is the story that the movie was (loosely) based on.

http://mysite.du.edu/~treddell/3780/Kornbluth_The-Marching-Morons.pdf
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: Gazoo on February 10, 2014, 09:30:36 pm
If you have a few minutes, this is the story that the movie was (loosely) based on.

http://mysite.du.edu/~treddell/3780/Kornbluth_The-Marching-Morons.pdf

It's been many years. Is this the movie where the guy says water the crops and he is said to be so SMART he is elected President?

Yes, we are headed there.
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: olde north church on February 10, 2014, 09:37:01 pm
If you have a few minutes, this is the story that the movie was (loosely) based on.

http://mysite.du.edu/~treddell/3780/Kornbluth_The-Marching-Morons.pdf

thanks, I'll check it out
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: Luis Gonzalez on February 10, 2014, 09:39:34 pm
It's been many years. Is this the movie where the guy says water the crops and he is said to be so SMART he is elected President?

Yes, we are headed there.

In the movie, the crops are dying because the government gave a contract to an energy drink company to water the crops with their drink.

The short story is quite different, but based on the same premise.

This is from the movie.

Quote
Narrator: As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: xfreeper on February 10, 2014, 09:57:46 pm
he can select gary condit as his running mate
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: Bigun on February 10, 2014, 10:08:32 pm
he can select gary condit as his running mate

 :bigsilly: :bigsilly: :bigsilly: :bigsilly: :bigsilly:
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: olde north church on February 10, 2014, 10:38:51 pm
he can select gary condit as his running mate

i didn't want to go there ....
Title: Re: Joe Scarborough believed to be taking idea of 2016 presidential bid seriously
Post by: xfreeper on February 10, 2014, 11:11:54 pm
i didn't want to go there ....

that's what you have us for........