“Hear hear! Good on him. Credit where credit is due, and credit is definitely due with Speaker Johnson.” — Joe Scarborough
It’s often said that it can be a kiss of death for a politician to be praised by a political opponent.
But that adage might not hold true in the case of Joe Scarborough’s praise of Speaker Mike Johnson. Because on today’s Morning Joe, Scarborough lauded Johnson not for agreeing with some liberal icon, but for upholding the principles of . . . Ronald Reagan.
Scarborough’s commending of Johnson came in the context of the Speaker’s advocacy of aid for Ukraine. And in doing so, Johnson described himself as a Reagan Republican, a believer in peace through strength, wanting to send a message to adversaries like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, and seeing the US as the greatest country in the world.
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