Joe Scarborough: Heated rhetoric would be political disaster in 2012 race
(NEWSER) - Joe Scarborough joins the chorus of those wishing for a more civil tone in politics, but he's not holding out much hope that the moral argument for civility will do the trick. After all, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and other "right-wing polemicists who make big bucks spewing rage" aren't admitting even a smidge of regret, he writes in Politico . For his fellow conservatives, then, Scarborough makes a more practical appeal: It will be political suicide to keep up the "cacophony of crazy talk" in the 2012 elections. More»
