Joe Scarbourough throws in the sponge...

[Surya Gayatri]

Just now on Morning Joe (MSNBC), Joe Scar literally threw up his hands and more or less declared the 2012 election a write-off.

He says he hasn't seen the Repuke party so rudderless since the post-Nixon election of 1974.

SG

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[Hissyspit]

1. "Rudderless" is a overly diplomatic way of putting it...

"So full of lies and hypocrisy and shit..." would be more accurate.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Well, it was Joe Scar, after all...LOL! n/t

[customerserviceguy]

2. George Will said pretty much the same thing

They figured out that Mittens is nothing but a placeholder candidate, the real Rethug race for the WH is four years from now. Rather than see time, energy and money going to beat the dead horse of Romney, they're psyching the base up for making sure they keep the House, and take the Senate.

Being as Barack Obama is relatively toothless without a Democratic Congress, and he does cave in to the Repukes often enough, they know they're on to something here.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Good strategy, if they can carry it out...but

the Senate is looking more positive for us Dems (NE and ME), and the House will surely benefit from the "coat tail" effect.
SG

[customerserviceguy]

48. Coattails depend on the enthusiasm effect

Barack Obama generated a lot of excitement four years ago, even in places that he was sure to win. A lot of people turned out at the polls to be a part of making history. Now that history has been made, they're going to need some goosing to get aroused, and if Mittens is the Rethug candidate, he's not going to inspire anywhere near as much fear as a Gingrich or a Santorum.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. Turn off the lights, lets go to Barbados for a year

I loved it.



I honestly think the (R) party has never been so broken, but what do I know.

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Yeah, that was the best line of the morning...LOL...

but who said it? Geist or the other jerk (can't recall name)? SG

[Motown_Johnny]

10. Scar said it

[Walk away]

23. Open your eyes. Teabaggers have been running local candidates and getting their people...

into every level of government. They are doing a great job of setting up the GOTP for decades to come. In some towns in my area there aren't even Democrats to run against them.
My Brother is running for Mayor of his little town. He was on the school board for many years and the town begged him to run because the only other candidate was a republican who had never volunteered a day for the town. I know my brother will win because he has been very active in town for decades and the entire town knows and loves him. But if he didn't run there would be one more level of government gone to the greedy and heartless.

They are developing members to take jobs in local and state government and they have groups teaching people how to run for office.
So please don't forget groups like Emily's List and others who develop grassroots progressive government and if you can...run!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. The talk radio/tea party/FOX News Frankenstein's monster has turned on them

They have their base so paranoid and insane that none of the candidates can live up to their 'purity' standards.

GOP politicians have to go so far to the extreme right in the primaries that they render themselves unelectable in the general.

This is what 20 years of screaming, washed-up rock DJs as your party spokesmen gets you to.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. +1,000 !

"...they render themselves unelectable in the general."
May it come true!!!!
SG

[Tennessee Gal]

5. Now Joe Scumbag is arguing that there is voter fraud

to the extent that these new proposed ids are necessary.

Jerk.

[Surya Gayatri]

11. Joe's spinning mightily, trying to salvage something

from this man-made disaster. If they can suppress voter turn-out with new Jim Crow-style laws, maybe all will not be lost!
LOL!
SG

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[ananda]

12. Well, Jim Crow is certainly alive and well...

... here in Texas. The new gerrymandering is utterly ridiculous, yet
the SCOTUS allowed it.

[Surya Gayatri]

13. What was the breakdown on the SCOTUS

decision, ananda? Probably the usual suspects (Scalia, Alito, Thomas, Roberts) plus Kennedy, I'll bet!

That's why getting the Presidency back for another four years is so essential.
Scalia looks pretty ripe for a coronary and Kennedy's no spring chicken either.
SG

[One of the 99]

22. He's 200 pounds of GOP BS

in a 5 pound bag.

[JitterbugPerfume]

14. a beautiful thing to see!

[Surya Gayatri]

17. Made my heart sing...made me want to dance around the room!!

[spanone]

15. but he has fuckhead norquist spewing his vile shit

[Surya Gayatri]

16. Grover's facial features, his body language and his voice...

all indicate squint-eyed studipity, close-mindedness, and a tight-assed, money-grabbing miserliness.

SG

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[JitterbugPerfume]

18. that is pretty clear!

I can't stand that little prick. I muted my TV until he was gone. I have no interest in what a sewer rat has to say.

[Surya Gayatri]

19. +1,000 ! Rat-like features! That's what he reminds me of! n/t

[edhopper]

20. The phrase is;

"Throwing in the towel". Not 'sponge'.

A nit I had to pick

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Thanks edhopper...I know, but I saw it too late...I'm afraid

that was some 'pollution' from French, my second language.
The French expression is "jeter l'éponge", literally "throw in the sponge".
I was in such a hurry I tripped over my bilingual tongue! LOL!
SG

[socialist_n_TN]

24. Actually I've heard both........

"Throw in the sponge" is, I BELIEVE, even older than "throw in the towel". They both come from boxing to signify one corner wanting to stop the fight because it's getting dangerous for their competitor. They used to use a sponge to wipe off the sweat and blood in between rounds. Now they use a towel, but both have been used to signify giving up.

[Surya Gayatri]

28. That's what I've explained to my

French students (I'm a TOEFL teacher).

But, I have to say I've never actually seen anybody throw in either a 'towel' or a 'sponge'--even in old boxing movies.

SG

[malthaussen]

44. There are references to it

In boxing literature of the 18th century. Also to throwing the hat in the ring, which is another boxing practice. Google Pierce Egan.

-- Mal

[Surya Gayatri]

45. I did not know that!

I knew the origins of the "towel" and "éponge" throwing, but had no idea that hats were tossed as well. Thanks, mal...
SG

[DefenseLawyer]

26. I like "throw in the sponge", it ties in the whole birth control angle

In a related story Elaine Benes has declared that no one in the Republican field is sponge-worthy.

[Surya Gayatri]

31. They're not even worth a lowly Bayer aspirin...

much less a Tylenol or an Aleve!
SG

[pamela]

47. That's what I thought she/he meant, too!

One of my favorite Seinfeld eps. (I was very upset when they took the sponge off the market)

[Gruntled Old Man]

25. Even an asshat like JS knows a losing hand when he sees it

[Surya Gayatri]

32. Yeah, Joe may be a bully blowhard, but

he does know his politics--twisted though they may be.
SG

[Arugula Latte]

27. Pleeeeeeease let these people be so demoralized they don't show up at all.

I want massive damage up and down the ballot.

[Surya Gayatri]

29. Yes, AL, an electoral bloodbath--I want them

all to 'bleed out' on the ballot, metaphorically speaking, of course!
SG

[JHB]

30. It is not rudderless...

...it's just that the rudder is under control of people who want to prove the world is flat by steering to the edge of the world. And let the rocks in their way be damned, because of (mumble mumble) American Exceptionalism! God's Will! or something!

[Surya Gayatri]

37. Sort of like Captain Schettino of the ill-fated Costa Concordia! n/t

[livetohike]

34. We were watching this morning....and I looked at my husband and said:

"Joe was in his mom's kitchen dipping Oreos into milk in 1974!" he is an idiot

[Surya Gayatri]

36. Oh, he learned all about it at his "mammie's" knee,

don'cha know?
Or he heard tell of it at the Scarborough clan meetin's.
Joe was a precocious youngster!
SG

[bvar22]

35. The Clown Show is just there for the Media Hype

... and the appearance of controversy.
Both parties need to project the illusion of a "fight" to keep the donations rolling in.
Under the Power Sharing Agreement, the Republicans are not scheduled to re-take the White House until 2016,
so they haven't fielded a serious candidate this year.
This is ALL for The Show.
If they didn't put on a show, nobody would donate to either campaign.

Several BILLIONS of DOLLARS will be dropped on our politicians this year,
and a good percentage of that money WILL go into the pockets of the MSM,
so roll out the Jerry Springer Super Campaign Extravaganza.

Meanwhile, covered up by the Campaign Hype, serious business is going on in the Middle East,
and in Washington.
Watch the Right Hand, and pay NO attention to what is happening behind the curtain!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/125118890





You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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[Surya Gayatri]

39. Well, for a party that doesn't want to win

this time around, they're sure squawking a lot!
Is it all a ruse, just shadow play on the wall?
SG

[bvar22]

42. Do you believe TV Wrestling is REAL too?

They squawk a lot too.
and Jerry Springer?

ALL the "squawking" is what brings in the MILLIONS,
which only goes to show that
you CAN fool most Americans ALL of the time.

[NightOwwl]

38. Of course they don't have a chance.

Why do you think they are running their B-team candidates?

No one except maybe the delusional folks over at freeper-republic believes any of these nincompoops have a chance in hell to beat Obama.

[Surya Gayatri]

40. Well, the M$M is doing their unfair and unbalanced

best to keep up the illusion, then.

I guess the polls must be completely rigged, because until about ten days ago, either Rmoney or Sanctorum were up on BHO in several swing states.
SG

[NightOwwl]

41. Up, down all around

Neither will beat Obama.

[calimary]

43. Stunk up the joint too badly even for him, 'eh?

No, joe, they are not rudderless. The problem is the rudder they installed that's steered them to this point.

[HopeHoops]

46. Um, yeah, that guy who fell down a lot, um, shit. Named after a car.

[DonCoquixote]

49. No cheering til we pass the finish line

The GOP never, ever gives up, and we cvannot forget that. Let's only not forget that many in the "democratic" ranks would love to see Mitt win because it would prove that "we need to go to the center" and that "we should elect Hillary."