Scarborough on Palin: "Finishing 3rd in the Miss Alaska contest as treacherous as military combat"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/30/joe-scarborough-sarah-palin_n_789664.html



Former Republican Congressman and current MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is out with a vicious new post encouraging Republicans to "man up" and take Sarah Palin down a peg. As if trying to get the ball rolling, he precedes this suggestion with a few choice volleys of his own.

"Republicans have a problem," Scarborough writes at Politico. "The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected."

Scarborough's main beef with Palin seems to be that, in his view, she just is not serious enough to be considered a viable GOP candidate for president in 2012, and despite the supposed general acceptance of this as fact, Republicans sit idly, afraid to speak out, while Palin basks in the pre-campaign limelight.

To make matters worse, Scarborough prods, Palin does all of this while demeaning the legacies of GOP standard-bearers that many hold dear, people such as former presidents Reagan, whom she casually downplayed as "an actor," as well as George H.W. and Barbara Bush, whom she deemed "blue bloods."

In a particularly caustic passage, Scarborough seeks to draw a comparison between the accolades of H.W. Bush and Palin.

I suppose Palin's harsh dismissal of this great man is more understandable after one reads her biography and realizes that, like Bush, she accomplished a great deal in her early 20s. Who wouldn't agree that finishing third in the Miss Alaska beauty contest is every bit as treacherous as risking your life in military combat? Maybe the beauty contestant who would one day be a reality star and former governor didn't win the Distinguished Flying Cross, but the half-termer was selected as Miss Congeniality by her fellow contestants.

[cleanhippie]

1. I think she is TRYING to get booted from the GOP.

So she can be the candidate for a third party composed of right-wing, evangelicals. And I hope she succeeds. That would be IDEAL for this country.

[AndrewP]

2. I agree. It would be ideal.

[Lasher]

5. A bloody GOP primary would work just as well, maybe better.

Sarah is going to run because there's money in it.

[GrpCaptMandrake]

3. This is the beginning

of something that was mentioned a month or so back: that there WILL be a significant push-back by the Old Guard GOP against Caribou Barbie. We should probably have some :popcorn: handy for this little steel cage deathmatch.

[polichick]

4. It looks like Jealous Joey would like Psycho Sarah to...

...mysteriously turn up with a bump on her head.

[K8-EEE]

8. She already has a bump on her head!

Bump it up! Have you seen these "bump it!" things?? Very elegant Sarah-esque accessories, LOL.

[polichick]

10. Wow, that's a blast from the past! lol

[Winterblues]

6. She is the leader of the Tea Baggers and so it isn't just her that is getting picked on.

This will cause a bit of an uproar among the rabid...Rush, Beck, Hannity, Etc...

[immoderate]

7. Face it Joe. Palin is the best you got.

There's no other Republican with a fucking good idea in their head. Every one of them is owned. Palin will do the same things any other Republican, (and most Democrats, including Obama,) would do.

--imm

[WI_DEM]

9. They sure are afraid she might be nominated in 2012

[Ozymanithrax]

11. Reagan wasn't an actor, he was a bad actor...

upstaged by a monkey.

[tammywammy]

12. That's quite a biting article. n/t

[Blue Owl]

13. Hitch your wagon to that troll, Joe

and fasten your seatbelt.

[K8-EEE]

14. Would love to know 3rd week ratings for that dumb show of hers

I'll bet it tanked even more than week 2, even the Freepers are sick of it!