Joe Scarborough Mocks Rick Perry: ‘He’s Not A Real Conservative’

Joe Scarborough showed off his best Texan accent this morning while accusing Rick Perry of being a liberal who had traded teams just to gain power on today’s Morning Joe.

Scarborough calls Perry a “dime store conservative” while taking note of his chairing role on Al Gore‘s campaign and what he call’s Perry’s 1993 “love letter” to Hillary Clinton –“we have a lot of these in the south,” he says. “He’s not a real conservative.”

His impression peaked as he mocked, “you know what, doggone it, let’s secede from the union and Social Security’s a Ponzi scheme, let’s shut down FEMA.” Voices from around the table suggested that Perry might just be open mined or perhaps evolving, but Scarborough seemed to be having too much fun to stop.

Mocking tone dropped and “personal nutty stuff aside,” Scarborough predicts fearfully that Perry will be just another “big government Republican” who will “do whatever it takes to get elected.” In reference to past Texas governors turned Presidents, he says, “If he had the swagger and he followed it up in DC, that’d be great.”

Watch the clip below:

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