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imanamerican63

(13,836 posts)
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 09:27 AM Jan 2022

Listening to Morning Joe this morning.

Scarborough was ranting about how the GOP party has changed in the last 20 years. Can’t Joe remember when he was in Congress and how they treated the Clinton? Can’t he remember how Reagan changed the the landscape of their party? Can’t he remember how the Bush presidencies took us to war in Afghanistan and and Iraq? Ok, I will say the GOP isn’t the same party as was 20 years ago and yes, we should be afraid. But this self proclaimed, self righteous fool is just like those who can’t see 2 feet in front or 2 feet behind them to cure the problem. Let’s just go back to 2015! Morning Joe gave Trump a free platform to spew his rhetoric and didn’t stop because they wanted the ratings.

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Sanity Claws

(21,866 posts)
2. Let's not forget how the Republicans manipulated the vote counting in FL in 2000
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 09:35 AM
Jan 2022

Republicans do not like democracy.

gab13by13

(21,494 posts)
4. They cheated in 2004 also,
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 09:51 AM
Jan 2022

remember the votes from Ohio that were transferred to a warehouse in Tennessee? Remember the computer programmer who was in on it and was on his way to DC to spill the beans when his small plane crashed?

Flo Mingo

(492 posts)
6. Jeb Bush was the governor at the time
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 10:03 AM
Jan 2022

And conducted perhaps the first-in-the-nation voter purge. Over 12000 voters illegally removed. Largely African American voters to no one's surprise. The vote difference was 538.

Republicans have been ratfucking America for decades. Eisenhower was the last patriotic Republican president.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-the-2000-election-in-florida-led-to-a-new-wave-of-voter-disenfranchisement/|

Wuddles440

(1,135 posts)
8. Reagan...
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 10:30 AM
Jan 2022

is directly responsible for creating the GQP cultist and the nightmare that we are now living in.

PJMcK

(22,069 posts)
7. It's vaguely amusing when Scarborough is quoted
Thu Jan 6, 2022, 10:04 AM
Jan 2022

The man is a Republican.

Always has been. Always will be.

Don't expect him to espoused Democratic views or ideals. Joe is a conservative Republican.

Why would anyone expect him to profess liberal perspectives?!

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