Joe Scarborough says Republicans ‘chose their fate’ nominating Trump over Haley

[mystery-ak]

Joe Scarborough says Republicans ‘chose their fate’ nominating Trump over Haley
By
Asher Notheis
August 12, 2024 11:45 am
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MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough contended that Republicans “chose their fate” by nominating former President Donald Trump over another candidate, wondering when the party would focus on “winning elections again.”

The 2024 presidential election has seen a major shakeup over the last few weeks after President Joe Biden bowed out of his reelection bid and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, with Harris seeing a spark in support against Trump in polling data. Scarborough referenced comments from the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney on the 2024 election, in which he contended Trump made “a dumb mistake” when he said on Truth Social that Harris used artificial intelligence to show a crowd waiting for her when her plane landed.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

The Republicans chose their fate when the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee selected country club lapdogs to run for House and Senate seats.

The Republican National Party is the hired help for Kleptokratic, Globalist, Oligarch billionaires, whom the unwashed deplorable masses don't care for.

Trump was able to commandeer the GOP because he is a street brawler while the other candidates had the fortitude of marshmallows and of wet noodles.

Blame the Bush's and their lackies ...

[Smokin Joe]

https://x.com/17ThankQ/status/1822076483604500736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1822076483604500736%7Ctwgr%5E4c65a11ca1cb1e65b027f08d54824f9235416b1e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gopbriefingroom.com%2Findex.php%2Ftopic539127.0.html

Go there and look at the images closely. Lack of a reflection of the crowd in any of the shiny surfaces of the plane, and no two of the phones being held up have the same image. They must not be taking pictures or video, which begs the question "Why are they being held up, then?".

Who are we supposed to believe, Scarborough or our own lying eyes? 

[Stevensr123]

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Go there and look at the images closely. Lack of a reflection of the crowd in any of the shiny surfaces of the plane, and no two of the phones being held up have the same image. They must not be taking pictures or video, which begs the question "Why are they being held up, then?".

Who are we supposed to believe, Scarborough or our own lying eyes?

there is literally loads of videos of the event.

[rustynail]

That dude in the middle is 8’6”

[IsailedawayfromFR]

We also chose our fate when we nominated Ronald Reagan as President.

And ridiculed for letting a movie star run for President.

The best two presidents in the past 60 years have not been lawyers.

[Bigun]

We also chose our fate when we nominated Ronald Reagan as President.

And ridiculed for letting a movie star run for President.

The best two presidents in the past 60 years have not been lawyers.

 

[mountaineer]

We also chose our fate when we nominated Ronald Reagan as President.

And ridiculed for letting a movie star run for President.

The best two presidents in the past 60 years have not been lawyers.

During my newspaper days, I noticed that the best reporters were not holders of journalism degrees. Likewise, the notion that the only fit person to be president is one with a J.D. and 40 years of enriching himself at the government teat is just ridiculous. The founding fathers would be shaking their heads.

[cato potatoe]

Sadly, Joe Scarborough is spot on here.  Victory was within reach, but the republicans wanted no part of it.  Maybe they will leave this doomer cult and step back into the light in time for the next election cycle.  There is always hope.  Kamala Harris cannot run a basement presidency. 

[Bigun]

During my newspaper days, I noticed that the best reporters were not holders of journalism degrees. Likewise, the notion that the only fit person to be president is one with a J.D. and 40 years of enriching himself at the government teat is just ridiculous. The founding fathers would be shaking their heads.

I firmly believe it to be unconstitutional for anyone to serve in two separate branches of government at the same time. Lawyers are officers of the court and thus members of the judicial branch. What are my chances of winning that case in court where ALL the players are lawyers?

[LMAO]

During my newspaper days, I noticed that the best reporters were not holders of journalism degrees.

If someone can read and write, a high school diploma is enough to be a journalist

[Bigun]

“No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."...

James Madison, Federalist 47

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."

James Madison, Federalist 58

[libertybele]

Sadly, Joe Scarborough is spot on here.  Victory was within reach, but the republicans wanted no part of it.  Maybe they will leave this doomer cult and step back into the light in time for the next election cycle.  There is always hope.  Kamala Harris cannot run a basement presidency.

Hope? Hope was thrown out the window when DeSantis decided not to continue his run for the presidency. He was indeed the conservative that we needed.  Yes, I am angry as all get out at Trump -- but Haley??? No flippin' way.

IF Trump doesn't pull this off and wind up in the oval office, we are done. Next election cycle will have the voting base of all the illegals. What do you think will happen to legal Americans??  They cannot sustain this invasion .... enough said.

[libertybele]

“No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."...

James Madison, Federalist 47

"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among the several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others."

James Madison, Federalist 58

Our country has become more and more divided.  Can we continue on the course that we are on with such division???

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among those powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinion of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. ...............

-The Declaration of Independence-

[roamer_1]

Sadly, Joe Scarborough is spot on here.  Victory was within reach, but the republicans wanted no part of it.  Maybe they will leave this doomer cult and step back into the light in time for the next election cycle.  There is always hope.  Kamala Harris cannot run a basement presidency.

There was no victory in Haley either.

[libertybele]

Sadly, Joe Scarborough is spot on here.  Victory was within reach, but the republicans wanted no part of it.  Maybe they will leave this doomer cult and step back into the light in time for the next election cycle.  There is always hope.  Kamala Harris cannot run a basement presidency.

Harris won't be running the country.  Perhaps Walz will, but ultimately Harris is a placeholder and the puppeteers will be pulling all the strings.

[cato potatoe]

Hope? Hope was thrown out the window when DeSantis decided not to continue his run for the presidency. He was indeed the conservative that we needed.  Yes, I am angry as all get out at Trump -- but Haley??? No flippin' way.

IF Trump doesn't pull this off and wind up in the oval office, we are done. Next election cycle will have the voting base of all the illegals. What do you think will happen to legal Americans??  They cannot sustain this invasion .... enough said.

DeSantis quit because he sensed the dumbass GOP was hellbent on to walking into the trap laid by Garland, Willis, and Bragg.  Haley would be interventionist, but a massive improvement over Biden or Harris with regard to domestic policy. 

If Harris wins, the amount of damage she inflicts will be determined by the makeup of congress.  There again, Trump has put the conservatives in a precarious spot by endorsing losers. 

[mystery-ak]

DeSantis quit because he sensed the dumbass GOP was hellbent on to walking into the trap laid by Garland, Willis, and Bragg.  Haley would be interventionist, but a massive improvement over Biden or Harris with regard to domestic policy. 

If Harris wins, the amount of damage she inflicts will be determined by the makeup of congress.  There again, Trump has put the conservatives in a precarious spot by endorsing losers.

That's why it is imperative we hold the House and win the Senate...

[Bigun]

I wrote the following in 1998 as a letter to the editor. Nothing has changed.

James Madison, author of the US Constitution, wrote:

"No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value or is stamped  with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that ... the accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the  same hands, whether of one, a few or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

To avoid the "same hands" accumulation of power, the Constitution incorporated a system of "separation  of powers" and "checks and balances". This system created three separate  branches of government. The Legislative (Congress), which makes the laws,  the Judiciary (the Courts), which interprets the laws and the Executive (the Presidency), which enforces the laws. By separating the powers of government in this manner it was intended that each branch would serve as a "check" and "balance" to the powers of the other two. This was done in order to make certain that the government would never possess sufficient power to oppress the people.

Our government currently looks like this:

•   The Judicial branch is, of necessity, composed of 100% lawyers
•   The executive office is currently held by a lawyer
•   And the within the 535 legislative seats of the U. S. Congress there are more lawyers than all other professions combined

I would submit that Mr. Madison’s greatest fear has been realized despite his best effort (Via the Constitution) to prevent it. Lawyer/judges now make the laws, interpret the laws and enforce the laws and have effectively turned our Constitutional Republic into a Juristocracy,  thus defeating the spirit, intent and purpose of the Constitution.

Please understand that I hold the legal profession in very high regard and have no personal animosity toward either individual members or the profession in general.  In fact, I believe that I am lucky enough to be able to count a number of  the members of this honored profession as friends (at least until they read this!). That not withstanding, I will assure you that, because of my knowledge of the above,  I would oppose any one of them vigorously, regardless of  political party affiliation, should they EVER decide to run for elective office outside the Judicial branch of government.

 My hope is that those of you reading this, and thus now aware of the problem, will remember it the next time you are called upon to make choices in the election booth as well.

[mountaineer]

If someone can read and write, a high school diploma is enough to be a journalist

I take it you've never been a news reporter.

[berdie]

Sadly, Joe Scarborough is spot on here.  Victory was within reach, but the republicans wanted no part of it.  Maybe they will leave this doomer cult and step back into the light in time for the next election cycle.  There is always hope. Kamala Harris cannot run a basement presidency.

Why not? The puppet masters are one in the same.

[LMAO]

I take it you've never been a news reporter.

Nope

[cato potatoe]

Why not? The puppet masters are one in the same.

This snow job may well get her through the election.  Like all west coast hippie politicians, her veneer of joyfulness is bound to wear off, exposing the authoritarian.  History tells us she will be unimpressive when tasked with defending herself.