UPDATE: It's Come To This: Joe Scarborough Is Officially Being Treated As A Presidential Contender
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TOM KLUDT – MARCH 13, 2014, 12:14 PM EDT
For the past several months, we've hard plenty about Joe Scarborough's vision for blueprint for the Republican Party to get back on track.
The congressman-turned-pundit has been talking about that stuff for years, of course, but it reached a fever pitch last November with the release of his book, "The Right Path."
"The buzz among GOP insiders is that 'The Right Path' has the potential to galvanize conservatives in the way Barry Goldwater’s 'Conscience of a Conservative' did half a century ago — especially conservatives ready to return to the winning ways of Ronald Reagan, who is on the cover, shown striding down the White House colonnade," gushed Politico's buzz arbiter Mike Allen.
Scarborough talked to TPM about the book, casually suggesting that "Joe Scarborough's worldview" was in sync with "Ronald Reagan's worldview and Bill Buckley's worldview and Margaret Thatcher's worldview."
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/joe-scarborough-2016
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UPDATE
Joe Scarborough will never be president for many very obvious reasons
This isn't complicated, people
ALEX PAREENE
I guess we’re doing this again? Morning show host and coffee chain pitchman Joe Scarborough has a book out, about how the Republican Party can save itself by being less angry and extreme, and trying to do more to appeal to “swing voters” and “moderates.” Scarborough has been giving lots of interviews about his book and its very original thesis. Ronald Reagan is on the cover of the book. Now people are asking Joe Scarborough if he is going to run for president, and he “won’t rule anything out.” He should. He definitely should rule it out, as soon as possible.
Now TPM says that Scarborough will be among the potential candidates in a survey taken at the Northeast Republican Leadership Conference in New Hampshire. That doesn’t really mean a whole lot. It’s not “proof” that Scarborough is dumb enough to actually run for president. He is, hopefully, just indulging the 2016 speculation to promote his book. But if he does even slightly well in this poll — and Northeast Republican Leaders are probably the closest thing to Scarborough’s “crowd” in the modern GOP, so it’s not impossible — there will be a lot of very insufferable words written, by the sort of people who appear or want desperately to appear on “Morning Joe,” about how Scarborough could make a serious run for the presidency. Mike Allen and Dylan Byers will say that “insiders” are “buzzing” about Scarborough 2016.
OK. Let’s be absolutely clear about this: Joe Scarborough is not a serious potential presidential candidate. That is nonsense.
The people who write credulously about candidate Scarborough tend to imply that because Scarborough is a television host, that he has built-in national name recognition and popularity. That is not actually true. Scarborough’s show is popular among people who follow politics closely. Most Americans don’t. And so, most Americans are watching something else most weekday mornings. Among Beltway (and New York) political journalists and media people, it is not a huge stretch to say that “everyone” watches “Morning Joe.” But in the real world, only a couple hundred thousand people watch it. That’s (a lot) fewer people than watch “Community.” I’m not trying to harsh on Scarborough’s ratings, I am just trying to explain that the man is not, by normal standards, a huge television talk show star. He is more like the most popular local news guy for the Acela corridor.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/03/13/joe_scarborough_will_never_be_president_for_many_very_obvious_reasons/
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excellent, who shall be the new Johnson, and what flowers will be the new daisies?
