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Scarborough Squashes HuffPo Report on 2012 Ticket With Bloomberg

“No.”

That’s the simple way Joe Scarborough responded to a Huffington Post story on Wednesday morning suggesting he and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg are considering a Bloomberg-Scarborough presidential ticket for 2012.

HuffPo’s Howard Fineman writes:

Well-placed sources tell The Huffington Post that the mayor and the host have talked about running together, with Bloomberg in the top spot. In an interview, Scarborough, a former GOP congressman from Florida, issued a firm yet carefully-worded denial. “We haven’t discussed it directly,” he said, adding, “Have people discussed it in his sphere and in my sphere? I think so.”

That, Scarborough said on his show “Morning Joe” Wednesday, is simply not true: “Mike Bloomberg and I have not talked about this directly, or indirectly, or super super secret indirectly.”

He went on to self-deprecate himself, saying he would be “the worst vice president ever.” That’s after panelist and ad agency man Donnie Deutsch praised Scarborough incessantly, saying that Bloomberg will be the next president and he thinks Scarborough should run.

“No,” Scarborough said during the segment, “I’m not going to do it. So what else can I say?”

The answer could be “something about a presidential run.” Interestingly, Scarborough only denied that he was talking with Bloomberg about running as a VP in 2012 — he said nothing about not running for president.

Comments (91)

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  • Ohiowoman
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:23am

    Now that would be the ticket from hell.

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  • Starvin Like Marvin
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:13am

    yeah, that would look great on the ticket, the biggest progressive ever versus the guy that bought his title as the mayor of New York City….. Thats really going to help to cure the “greedy capitalist” sentiment that has been building.

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  • Alvin691
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:05am

    Bloomberg would tube our country.

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  • psst
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:00am

    I was flipping stations this am when Fox hosts started babbling on some uninteresting stuff.
    I stopped for a few minutes on PMSNBC.
    Joe Coffee was babbling that an Independent party wa the way to go.Folks should get away from the dem or repub parties.
    I only learned this moment on the Blaze about Joe Coffee on Nufinton Peep squelching talk about VP w/ Broomberg.
    Could this remark about an Independent party as the only way to go be a subliminal message that Coffee is sending? Hm. Let’s see what unfolds.
    I have news for Broom. Ain’t no damn way in hell can he get elected POTUS.
    The libs/socialists/big government lovers in MADhattan may want his as their leader er Massa . Maybe even the assinines on the Left Coast may want him in their kitchens and restaurants, telling them how to cook, what to eat, what they can’t consume, blah-blah-blah.
    But not the rest of normal America.
    Broom may yet outlaw coffee. Some scientists says it bad for health, some say it’s good for health.
    But knowing Broom, he may pump 20 gals of coffe into a mouse and say..’See, the mouse died from drinking coffee. So, no coffee in MADhattan.

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  • clockwatcher
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:58am

    Your joking right,another set on Rino’s. I hope not.

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  • ed0315
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:44am

    Scarborough and Doucheberg. What a ticket. Do we have a new Clueless Party now?

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  • dominke
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:42am

    Joe was never friend of people and bloomy is nothing but a person without morals. Joe brags about his job of protecting people of florida when in office. Most of people were glad to see him leave office. Bloomberg bought the office of mayor. Look at the states these two represent,New York and Florida. People that can afford to leave are running fast to get away from the liberals. Both of these states are candidates to fall into bankruptcy.

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  • shellmen
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:41am

    Tea party keep you rguard high this is only the brginning. The republicans are more scared of us than the democrats are because the old boys club can see their power slipping away. DONOT TRUST ANYBODY IN POLITICS UNTIL THEY PUT THEIR MONEY WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS.

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  • Jim in Houston
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:34am

    I hope he does run, since I never heard of him and I ‘ll bet there are a lot more who haven’t heard of him either. However, an unknown ran and won last time and look at the mess we are in as a result.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:16am

    The election was a couple of weeks ago. Bloomberg running as a what? Do they think the Tea Party went away?

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  • Richio
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:13am

    Joe’s not interested in resurrecting the controversy which caused him to leave congress.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Scarborough

    HuffPo isn’t very politically astute.

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  • Comeandtakeit
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:11am

    Hey! NOTHING could be better than Bloomberg running 3rd party, Obama running as a Dem, and a conservative tea-partier favorite running for the Republicans who wants to return to constitutional government! Hooray. The leftwing would split and the conservative would run away with it. GREAT idea! Run, Bloomberg, split their vote!

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  • freedom10
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:09am

    Gingrich-Beck ticket, would wipe out Spooky Dude forever.

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    • psst
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:09am

      Please. not Newt.
      Newt is nothing but an opportunist. Sticks compass er finger in wind. Points the way.
      Newt needs to take Plousy and go sit on a couch by the seashore. Again.

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  • Sledgehammer
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:00am

    Joe, not so much. But that Bloomin idiot Bloomberg, NEVER, he’d ban all the good foods, and yes, he’d would send folks around to make sure we were following “his” policies!

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  • Knightofhopex
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:59am

    They’re just saying no because they know they could never win. It’s pretty obvious.

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  • mallsniper
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:51am

    Bloomberg is too busy hiding his money in offshore tax shelters.

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  • SND97
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:50am

    With the 99 people or less who watch the show does it matter?

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  • Thirteenth Paladin
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:43am

    As usual, HuffPo has it wrong. Go figure.

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    • Slayer
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:42am

      Of course HuffPo has it wrong! Have you seen the people over there? It’s like looking through a window into hell. What a bunch of hate-filled anti-American nutjobs! You go to any comment section and it’s Palin is an idiot! Bush lied! Beck’s crazy! Jail Cheney! Palin! Palin! Palin! They’re obsessed with Palin over there. They have no clear thinking and can’t get out of that Leftwing bubble – that’s why they just lost over 600 seats. They followed the smartest man in the world and his classy, elegant, brilliant, stylish wife right over a cliff.

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  • Average_JoeMN
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:43am

    That’s just what this country needs; a gun-hating, constitution-ignoring, nanny state-cheerleading, tax increase-adoring extreme liberal and a fake “conservative” who prostitutes himself on a low-rating, barely breathing cable “news” network just to get a paycheck. Yeah, after the country just went Tea Party, they’re going to vote for that.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:16am

      I could see Soros using any means to capture the votes by bribery, graft, theft and intimidation if he controls the electorial college. Something we need to keep in mind for the 2012 elections.

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  • DagneyT
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:43am

    I cannot think of a worse ticket than one that includes Bloomberg! I don’t care who is on the ticket with him, I’d never vote for Mr. Nanny-stater! Even if Sarah Palin was on the ticket, I still wouldn’t!

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  • MAULEMALL
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:43am

    I guess we would have to put up with that blond bit of Nothing and that absolute failure of a father Big nose brasinsky too??

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:42am

    You’ve got to be kidding. Bloomberg couldn’t win an election for dog catcher outside of New York.

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    • Big Toe
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:04am

      Do not count out Mike Bloomberg. He is smart, cunning, And the best businessman you’ll ever encounter. I actually chose him as a third party candidate. Just hope Palin doesn’t get the nod for Gop. She will not garner enough voters. They(the media) will do to her as in the case of O’Donnell.

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    • derekcrane
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:37am

      Bloomberg is like Woody Allen movies that no one outside New York City and Hollywood ever watch. Bloomberg has appeal in NYC, Hollywood and maybe with the early-bird diners in Boca Raton. Absolutely zero draw anywhere else. Scarboro has burned his bridges with anyone to the right of Obama and would have negative appeal to most Americans. This dynamic duo goes nowhere.

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:49am

      I love Palin but I have to agree. She’s got the spunk and direction we need but not the polish. She’d make an awesome cabinet member or hig level WH head, but POTUS, I have to say her run would simply mean another Democrat for four more years and I don’t think we can risk that. Bloomberg can gather his minions in NYC but outside that bubble, he’s a nobody.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 2:26pm

      Too late, he’s already been counted out. If you think America will elect a man who is so “cunning” he supports a victory mosque at ground zero, then you must think Alvin Green is candidate to watch as well.

      Gonzo  
  • MAULEMALL
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:41am

    Bwaaaaaaaaa Haaaaaa Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
    Those 2 spineless freaks….

    Haaaaaaa Haaaaaaaa

    Some folks need a CLUE…

    How Effed up is NY???

    Joe Scarboro was an absolute NOBODY till he stabbed Don Imus in the back…

    Freakin RINO scumbags…

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  • SND97
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:40am

    Running for President? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:46am

      Imagine this conversation…

      (Soros “spooky dude”: Scaraborough, you will run for President and be my puppet forever in the new world order.”

      (Scaraborough: “No.”

      (Soros: “What, how dare you defy me…my word is law…”

      (Scaraborough: “The 2012 ticket is of Glenn Beck-Sarah Palin.”

      (Soros: “AHHHHHH!!!!!”
      (Flash of light as Soros dissapears in a self consuming ball of fire. Dreams of world domination have just ended for ever.)

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    • Slayer
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:38am

      I’d like to see a Jindal/somebody ticket. I don’t think Palin is presidential material yet. I love her but she’s taken so much damage from the JournOlist media that she might not be able to run till 2016. She wasn’t able to use her star power to stop Murkowski who should have been trounced for pulling that kind of a stunt after losing the primary. Palin would be excellent as head of the GOP. She makes mostly excellent choices and I think she could really rebuild the party while clearing the deadbeat RINOs out over the next few years.
      Then again, Palin is currently beholden to no one but herself and has successfully brought a bunch of candidates over the finish line while sending many Dems home. So it‘s a tough call because she’s very effective doing what she’s doing right now.
      Finally, there should have been a lot more press on how right she was about the Death Panels. It‘s just that the Liberal media can’t admit they’re ever wrong, much less that she’s ever right.

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    • drbage
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:20am

      @SNOWLEOPARD
      Shouldn’t that be when he boards the one way flight to Mars?

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:59am

      you mean the HuffPo LIED?!?!? Say it aint so!

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    • Ken
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 11:45am

      Love your “spooky dude post” SNOWLEOPARD 3200!!!

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:38am

    Why would you need another liberal set of candidates? Isn’t Obama-Biden stark raving left enough for you?

    We need to be careful that the State Run Media doesn’t select the GOP candidate again the way they did in 2008.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:43am

      No kidding.

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    • Shurmus
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 8:45am

      Delusions of Grandeur…pure and simple. We are big into Christie/Stossel 2012!

      http://www.slugbuddies.com

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    • 2
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:10am

      Mike & Joe? What party would they run under. The Terd party, I mean Third party.

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    • ConsChristian
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:32am

      With republicans like that, you don’t need democrats.

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    • Slayer
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:33am

      It’s going to be harder for the JournOList media to select the GOP candidate again because this time we have the TEA Party keeping an eye out for that kind of crap. And the mood right now is very anti-RINO.

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    • radioguru
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:35am

      2012 GOP ticket MUST include Michelle Bachmann.. Even the GOP is afraid of her candor and openess. She really is “one of us” in Washington.

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    • seanpatriot
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:35am

      All these people are legends in the own mind

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    • HUGGINGMYBABIES
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 9:41am

      No more RINOS for this party!

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    • psst
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 10:05am

      @ 2
      Um, Wrong both times. nearly correct on the first.The U was right there for the taking.

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    • orkydorky
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:07pm

      All the media seems to be pushing Mitt Romney, all he‘s ever proven to me is that he’s a progressive at the other end of the scale! We must be very careful of our selection for the GOP, trying to make a president out of John McCain was a complete waste of resources and the Good ol’ Boys seem to be lining up again. Let‘s hope that we don’t have to butt heads with them again, because I feel that their entitlement days are gone and so might go the Republican party!

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    • Fort Mill Joe
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:08pm

      We all need to do our best to make DC RINO FREE. We don‘t need another liberal like McCan’t running on our ticket. Never again!

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    • cece959
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:14pm

      I know. 12 candidates and the best we could cough up was McCain?

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    • GreyGhost
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:20pm

      Exactly..

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    • SheriS
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 1:43pm

      Nickderinger: You are so right–I had to hold me nose when I voted for McCain! He has always been a waste and loves to hear his own voice–then you throw in his idiot daughter, wow what a pair! If I could talk “valley talk” I would make some comment, but I’m a country girl where facts are facts. It is time for Republicans to be Republicans then get rid of all the RHINO’S like the “entitled one” from Alaska! What a hugh disappointment putting Lisa M in DC! She will be siding with the Dems most of the time when we could have had an incredible Tea Party person who believes in our Constitution!

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    • jingo455
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 5:39pm

      The real question for 2012 is: will the tea party help push the Ron Paul-Libertarian worldview or oppose him so much they rush back into the arms of the RINOs? The tea party backed Rand Paul in Kentucky, and the establishment candidate lost to him. So will it back his father Ron? Be careful of another RINO trojan horse. I saw Michelle Bachmann’s interview with Glenn and even Glenn got frustrated at her answer being too politician-y (she refused to say to vote for conscience instead of party). She may be a trojan horse. Careful folks.

      The only reason the GOP base opposed Ron Paul was because Iraq/Afghan were still GOP wars. If they had supported him, we could of saved a trillion dollars. But I digress. Now that Obama is spending trillions on those same muslim-country-building exercises, perhaps the GOP is tired of wasting money and US lives?

      The GOP needs to become ANTI-WAR in 2012 or they stand no shot. Paul almost convinced the republicans on the basis of finance (wars are costing us too much), but when he delved into blowback he lost them.

      Ron Paul is the only one who showed any level of popularity outside of the GOP (most of the youth was for Ron or Obama, so when the GOP picked the Rino, the youth was left only with “cool” obama and all swung towards him, since the GOP stabbed themselves in the back and got rid of the only credible small government politician they had.

      Electing another Reagan is not enough. We need a radical libertarian who understands strict constitutionalism. There’s only one of those in Congress (once his son joins him, there’ll be two). We need Dr. No. (Congress votes are often 434 to 1, with only Ron Paul voting against unconstitutional bills, etc.)

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    • jingo455
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 5:48pm

      Wait a minute are they saying run third party??
      I SAY DO IT. Let bloomberg run third party. He’d split the liberal votes.
      That’d be a Nader effect, right?

      Then let a tea party candidate take the crown and institute massive austerity measures. (Then all of us GOP need to sign up for volunteer police duty to beat down the soros-sponsored rioters.Seriously)

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    • mcfinch
      Posted on November 17, 2010 at 6:31pm

      I agree.

      http://politicalbowl.com/

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