Scarborough: Too Dumb To View, But Not For It

Just watched the whole clip of Scarborough on The View below. This guy is a know nothing, self-promoting, superficial ass. I shouldn't use this clip on the off chance someone sees it and buys his book. I have issues with Bush. But Bush didn't bankrupt America as Scarborough claims. And since when is opposing tyranny around the world a bad thing? I guess he's shooting for Buchannan-lite without the intellect.

From Clinton's recession to the dot com crash fall-out, 9/11, Katrina and two wars to defeat people who attacked us, killed thousands of Americans and want us dead ... and more - Bush faced more and greater challenges than any contemporary President.

And through it all he kept his poise and displayed tremendous dignity under a relentless assault by the vile clones of today's far Left liberals. And even though we often disagreed, he always did what he believed was best for America, not for himself.

I'm sick of these pathetic Republicans who seek to curry favor with the media by bashing Bush, while acting as clownish willing dupes for their liberal pals. And Scarborough's doing it to sell a book no one will remember was written in a year, or two.

No wonder he's MSNBC's resident Republican buffoon. He would never make it where that many people watched and listened to him for very long.

Comments

[mark l.]

joe scarborough is the love child of pat buchanan and rachel maddow.

[anon]

Bush was a bad president. That doesn't mean he's a bad man or that he wasn't doing what he believed was right, but being a good man and believing that your policies are correct do not equal being a successful president or leader.

He didn't pay attention to details and the people he appointed to sweat the details were generally incompetant and/or idealogues and/or yes men. That's a bad combination.

He had the chance, just like Clinton did, to be a great president. The dot.com bust was a wake up call that something was SERIOUSLY wrong with the capital markets, when IPO's make tens of millions for people who can't even write a business plan let alone ever turn one thin dime of profit, that is a red flag. But, Bush, like everyone else ignored the red flag and let the paper money gravy train roll on...giving it even more juice after 9/11 until it finally collapsed under its own weight.

His prescription drug plan is a train wreck.

He did nothing on immigration.

He did run up a deficit for no good reason.

While no child left behind had some good theory behind it, it hasn't done anything to actually improve education, but I will give him a pass on that one.

After 9/11 the entire world was sympathetic to the U.S., hell even the IRANIANS offered to help us, but he pissed all of that goodwill away, again, for no good reason, with a poorly thought out Iraq war strategy and a bull in a china shop approach to diplomacy. He squandered a singular moment in history and instead of reaping the benefits of worldwide goodwill he incomprehensibly left America MORE HATED after 9/11 than before.

And for the record, I'm not sure how you get to 'two wars to defeat people who attacked America' since Iraq did not attack America, none of the 9/11 plotters were Iraqi and Iraq did not back Al Quada.

The jury is still out on global warming, if it turns out to be due to or exacerbated by carbon emissions then its the last nail in his coffin, if it turns out to be a normal climate fluctuation, then he looks smart.

Bush was a failure on all counts.

[JustOneMan]

Joe is getting dumber each day. The way MSNBC spews out anything that King Barry says is unbearable. He has balls preaching on how to be a republican when he is on the patroll of the Democrat machine

[JustOneMan]

payroll of the Democrat machine

[rrpjr]

You nailed it, Mr. Riehl.

[andrew]

"After 9/11 the entire world was sympathetic to the U.S., hell even the IRANIANS offered to help us, but he pissed all of that goodwill away,"

That is one of the all time retarded Left wing media talking points. Seriously man, do you have enough oxygen reaching your brain.

[lala]

"the entire world was sympathetic to the U S"

Ha, I was in France in May 2002 and the French were buying Thierry Meyssan's book 911 The Big Lie, and were believing what the author wrote.

[J]

President Bush inspired many people with hope....real hope....not the sham obama has offered. He kept my family safe, after 9/11, and made me proud of my President.....something this poor thing in office does not do. The world has obama's number and is reacting to it in a way not to our benefit. People within our country are reacting to the lawlessness of our leaders and reacting to the ensuing chaos. Our military has had a target painted on its back by the democrat party, our pocketbooks are considered the playground of the social engineers of the democrat party.....I can't say things are looking good and I miss President Bush and his entourage (Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.)

[anon]

Oh for the love of god, okay , not ever single solitary person on the planet became sympathetic to the U.S after 9/11 but the governments and the majority of people throughout the world WERE sympathetic to the U.S.

And lefty talking point or not, it is a proven fact that the Iranians made an overture to the Bush Administration after 9/11.

I mean, am I to understand that people here think that there was not increased sympathy for the U.S. across the world after 9/11? that it didn't make a difference, that the U.S. didn't have a lot of extra political capital as a result of 9/11?

Please.

[andrew]

"Oh for the love of god, okay , not ever single solitary person on the planet became sympathetic to the U.S after 9/11 but the governments and the majority of people throughout the world WERE sympathetic to the U.S."

There was sympathy for the victims. But the Left's narrative that the "world" was all geared up to help us out so much and silly Bush somehow blew it all is fiction, it belongs in a novel, it's not reality. What the hell is your substance to back this up, how can countries with practically non-existent militaries help us?

"And lefty talking point or not, it is a proven fact that the Iranians made an overture to the Bush Administration after 9/11."

Cuz if there's one group of people in the whole world that can be trusted it's the government of Iran.

[Jamie Lockett]

I'm sorry but I have to ask - what was the connection between Iraq and people who attacked us?

Disclaimer: To ward of the Wahrgarble - I supported and continue to support the Iraq war as a matter of policy. Removing a dictator was a good thing. Securing access to oil in Iraq was good for the US. Establishing a democracy - while perhaps foolhardy - was a noble endeavor.

[Ad rem]

There's a reason this guy chose not to run for re-election.......

[mark l.]

sympathy?

"america's chickens, have come home to roost."

[mark l.]

what was the connection between Iraq and people who attacked us?

the "bush doctrine" is on wiki...

the argument goes: we will no longer wait for an enemy to pose an imminent threat.

i'm imagining the alternate scenario, no invasion.

Afghanistan becomes the central front, at least in regard to aq and us deployment. the terrain of afgh. does not support a large mission. had aq allocated all their resources to afgh, we suffer an equivalent number of casualties. The success of iraq has obscured the futility of afgh.

without iraq, we would have been bracing for another vietnam.

on a side note, it would mean saddam is still running iraq, paying 25k to palestinian suicide bombers to kill israelis. when israel invades southern lebanon, iraq joins in, and we would have a lot less control.

[RobM]

Riehl, good points on Scarborough. He's always seemed just as a tool. He argues with leftards enough to appear conservative-ish, but he's not. He is a shallow tool of the left/media.

I didn't agree with President Bush on a lot, in fact I know of NO ONE who supported or supports him still that does... and I think that is an interesting thing. He is and was though, a man of pricible and honor and he took his job very seriously... to his own political peril.

The media and left are bound and determined not to allow 9-11 to be a rallying point. They're divisiveness and political attacks were scurrilous. Well, it was always all about getting into power. It is plain to see now. Cheat, lie, pay-off, whatever it takes. Regain power and "change" America. All criticisms end when they finally win. Imbiciles .

[mark l.]

"i'm imagining the alternate scenario,"

let's try an alternate scenario for the financial crisis-

no banking failure? then oil never leaves its peak price and continues exponential growth in cost. mccain wins the election on drill here, drill now.

the future price of oil hasn't been changed, just delayed. god help the party in power when it goes to 250 a barrel. it is a financial bomb that is still ticking.