Scarborough for Senate?
Here we go again. The Hill’s Bob Cusack writes about GOP attempts to recruit Joe Scarborough to run in Florida…
Republicans in Washington are trying to recruit Joe Scarborough to run against Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) next year.
Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), told The Hill on Thursday that he has talked to Scarborough a couple times about a Senate bid. And he indicated he’s still working on persuading the MSNBC host to run for the upper chamber.
“I’d be delighted to talk to him a third time,” Cornyn said.
Update: In a bit of “he said/he said” National Review Online’s Jim Geraghty has the NRSC denying it was Florida and that it was really New York only The Hill’s Bob Cusack has Scarborough himself saying it was Florida. Clear as mud, no?
March 11, 2011 at 6:38 am
It’ll be a money thing, I predict for him; the’s got boys ready for college just about now, and he’s the only fairly conservative voice aside from Buchanan on the MSNBC lineup…to balance the green left of the now sold former GE property.
I predict he will not run. he didn’t when he quit congress and never looked back.
March 11, 2011 at 6:51 am
I have to agree with whitney; as much as the Republican establishment would like him to run for the Senate there are just too many things going against it.
It would be a BIG paycut, he has skeletons in the closet that would reappear should he run and he would be attacked by the Tea Party as a lefty because he works at MSNBC. He could do well in a general election but it is very doubtful he could get past the Republican primary.
Actually I think his best chance would be to run as a Democrat; but that’s not going to happen either.
March 11, 2011 at 7:05 am
if we would have to hear “when I was in Congress in 1995 & 1196 we did….” for a whole election season I would want to puke! Besides how in the world would MSNBC handle this on the channel that’s “The Place for Politics”. Have they EVER liked a republican (IMO – in name only) more than a democrat for ANY office?
I’m guessing MSNBC will offer him $ NOT to run so they won’t have that dilemma.
March 11, 2011 at 7:14 am
fritz3
Brings up great ponts, too…don’t know Joe’s skeletons but Flake will be a formidable conservative candidate; the Tea Party thing messes up many who aren’t fiscal conservatives and “saints” too…did Scarborough have a GF problem when he was in FL?
Was aware he got a divorce then he quit congress.
March 11, 2011 at 7:25 am
This was the only thing I could find:
http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html
was this what you were referring as to skeletons…if so there’s no meat on these bones.
March 11, 2011 at 7:28 am
GOD HELP US! I’d vote for a dem before Scarborough. He sides with the left much more than the right. He’d make Susan Collins, Scott Brown and Olympia Snowe (reliable RINO/turncoats) look like right wingers.
John Cornyn has truly lost it, and his committe can drop dead! I’m going with Jim DeMint and his group when it comes to supporting reliable conservatives.
HELL NO TO JOE!
March 11, 2011 at 7:38 am
Whitney: Yeah that’s what I was talking about. You don’t need any meat on the bones to use this stuff in an underground campaign.
If by Flake you mean Jeff Flake you’ve got the wrong state; he’s from Arizona.
Thanks Missy for confirming my point about JS being attacked by the Tea Party as a lefty.
March 11, 2011 at 7:51 am
Oh yes, I did mean Flake and I do have the wrong state….it’s early and have been playing 3-D tic-tac to calculating wave heights when the Tsunami gets here…
but Missy’s comment is so in line with my thinking too. If it’s a Susan Collins we don’t need another. Cornyn is getting desperate if that’s it.
I like Missy’s analysis of this race. Collins and that other woman in Maine or New England… drive me nuts when they vote or speak.
When I was a kid putting the US map together I always blanked out on the NE states’ shapes.
March 11, 2011 at 8:28 am
Scarborough’s ‘closet’ is empty if that’s all that’s in it. Conspiracy theories based on the notion that everybody, police, prosecutors, and even the medical examiner, got something wrong or were in a cover-up–well, that sort of thing has traction only with the birther/truther fringes. And they aren’t going to be interested in Scarborough anyhow.
The story looks like a whole lot o’ nuttin’ to me. It gives Joe a little extra PR, which doesn’t hurt, but that’s about it.
March 11, 2011 at 8:37 am
Joe would be a heck of lot better than Snow or that other RINO in Maine. that lisps her way through her speeches… At least he’s still a father and would make decisions with that in mind…see his statement about why he quit the congress. He laid out his thinking in his book…(that I never bought or read. Who would he run against? I got confused with AZ, because I know Kyl from Arizona and he’s going at the end of this congress unless he resigns first, (and that’s a possiblity as there’s a (R) governor in AZ.
March 11, 2011 at 10:17 am
Just what we need another RINO in the Senate…why the heck dose anyone in The Republican party want him to run..don’t they watch him on MSNBC?
March 11, 2011 at 10:31 am
paminwi
Just read that puke comment…LOL, yes, agreed.
Fortunately, I don’t have a vote in Fl anyway, anymore.
lived there for a few months and I don’t miss it at all. Among it’s way too humid for me, and having to hear my senator say that he was former congressman. AND MSNBC host would put me over the edge, too.
And, the title: Morning Joe is hard to take.
March 11, 2011 at 10:32 am
OMG,
POTUS, is again at the mic…doesnt’ he get enough air time?
March 11, 2011 at 10:53 am
When he was reading his statement I felt like I was listening to a report that a kid in school would read, ie: my statement… and Warren Buffet agrees; my statement … and T. Boone Pickens agrees.
And oh, by the way we are using “X” number of barrels of oil fewer this year than last year – HELLO! – maybe it’s because we’ve lost millions of jobs you doofus!
March 11, 2011 at 4:37 pm
Fritz, glad to oblige – JS IS a lefty. And he is smarmy as well!
March 11, 2011 at 5:30 pm
he would be attacked by the Tea Party as a lefty because he works at MSNBC.
He would correctly be attacked as a lefty because he uses his perch at MSNBC to bash Republicans. If he runs, we’re contributing to his Dem opponent.
March 11, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Hey Pam, I caught that about less oil, too. I almost choked. Uh, people put less gas in cars that don’t go anywhere. Or got repossessed.
March 11, 2011 at 10:20 pm
“Uh, people put less gas in cars that don’t go anywhere.”
That’s funny.
March 11, 2011 at 10:28 pm
It’s like when they brag about the decrease in illegal immigration. Well duh, there’s no jobs for them to take. May as well dodge bullets in Mexico.