I see Jerry Bowyer watches Morning Joe...

Basil Faulty: I mean, have you seen the peo­ple in room six? They’ve never even sat on chairs before. They are the com­mon­est, vul­gar­est , most…

Faulty Tow­ers 1975

…because his piece at Forbes absolutely nails it:

Have you ever noticed how many of the most promi­nent con­ser­v­a­tive voices in Amer­ica sound more like lib­er­als? I have, and I believe they are in class all their own: they have a spe­cial mis­sion and fit a par­tic­u­lar profile.

They are what I like to call ‘kept cons.’ They are ‘kept’ by lib­er­als in that kept cons gen­er­ally work for lib­eral insti­tu­tions and seem to fill the role of token con­ser­v­a­tive; they write con­ser­v­a­tive columns for national lib­eral news­pa­pers or appear as con­ser­v­a­tive hosts or com­men­ta­tors on CNN or MSNBC or CNBC; but they don’t sound all that con­ser­v­a­tive. You can spot them slam­ming Sarah Palin or tamp­ing down on the Tea Party. Their usual mes­sage is always some­thing like, “I’m a con­ser­v­a­tive but these other peo­ple, these gun owners/​southerners/​TEA Partiers/​Tax Cutters/​Randians/​Supply-​siders/​Pro-​lifers/​Climate Change Deniers/​Libertarians/​Gun Nuts/​Gold Bugs, etc., are beyond the pale.

This is a per­fect descrip­tion of Joe Scar­bor­ough who always seems to have a bad thing to say about a Pat Toomey and the entire GOP pres­i­den­tial field except for Jon Hunts­man & Mitt Rom­ney, at least until Rom­ney was nom­i­nated and then found fault.

I don’t think I can put it bet­ter than the Club for Growth:

Club for Growth spokesman Bar­ney Keller essen­tially responded by point­ing to the score­board in recent pri­maries in which con­ser­v­a­tive insur­gents have pre­vailed and emerged as influ­en­tial GOP leaders.

“They are wel­come to sup­port the likes of Arlen Specter, Char­lie Crist and David Dewhurst,” Keller said of the new Cross­roads group. “We will con­tinue to proudly sup­port the likes of Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.”

On the net we call such folks “con­cern trolls”. I sus­pect if I was will­ing to do the same DaTip­Jar would always be full, but if you are a mem­ber of the GOP you will never go broke if you are will­ing to hit the party.