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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough rips on McCain - "Not a Conservative"

Here is a snip from this morning's show (video is here):


JOE SCARBOROUGH: Let me tell you what a conservative is not:

  • A conservative is not a man that calls tax cuts that George Bush passed that revived the economy "tax cuts for the rich."
    That is not a conservative.
  • A conservative is not a man who is one of two Republicans standing alone in Washington, DC voting against those tax cuts that every other Republican supported in Washington, DC.
    That is not a conservative.
  • A conservative is not a man that teams up with Teddy Kennedy to produce a bill that is nothing short of amnesty that would allow 12 million illegal immigrants to attain legal status the day after John McCain's bill and Ted Kennedy's bill becomes law.
    That is not a conservative.
  • A conservative is not somebody that goes on Tim Russert's show a couple of weeks ago and says if that amnesty bill that would allow 12 million illegal immigrants to become citizens [legal residents] the next day, he does not go on that show and say "yes, I would sign that bill, but don't worry, it's not going to come to my desk."
    That is not a conservative.
  • A conservative is not a man who says he wants to increase taxes maybe 50 cents per gallon on the American people, trying to push through a bill that the rest of the world won't sign onto.
    That is not a conservative.

    Concluded Scarborough: "I could go on forever and ever."

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