Posted on 11/19/2015 10:47:22 AM PST by conservativejoy
Donald Trump, the 2016 GOP frontrunner for president, lambasted Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 80% on Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 on Thursday morning.
"Marco Rubio is not equipped to do this job," Trump said. "Marco Rubio is a lightweight."
The slam came during an exchange with host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon in which the men were bashing the so called "GOP smart set" a collection of Washington centric political consultants and GOP establishment favored pundits that think they're smarter than ordinary Americans, and use their public opinion leader positions to protect the Washington establishment.
"Let me ask you the GOP smart set, which we at Breitbart have identified all these 'intellectuals' or 'quasi intellectuals,'" Bannon began asking Trump before the billionaire cut across him.
"I don't think we should call them the 'smart set,'" Trump said.
You know what, they're wrong so often. I think we belittle ourselves by calling them the "smart set." You know, they call them the "GOP elite?" I don’t think they're "elite." I think we're the elite. I think we're really the elite. Because we're the ones that are right. I don't think we should call just like we shouldn't call ISIS, this so called leader of ISIS they say "the mastermind." He's not a "mastermind." He's a punk. They ought to call him what he is. He's garbage.
After some more back and forth between Trump and Bannon over the Syrians caught at the border and how the U.S. should deal with ISIS, Bannon turned the conversation back on the consultant class in Washington, D.C.
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Some idiot woman called in shortly after Trump, said that Trump did not give enough specifics on what he would do to eliminate ISIS. She wanted exact steps.
Could this woman be stupid enough to want Trump to basically lay out his entire strategy in public for the enemy to know, just like Obama and Biden do???
Anyone else catch her?
‘Not Equipped...’ If it is Trump vs. Clinton, and Trump says that, he will be labeled a sexist by the male and female anchorettes. Be prepared.
I've heard him speak and he does well. His problem is he can't escape his own history. It should be the cornerstone of LEGAL immigration.
Trump doesn’t know what strategy means. He doesn’t have specifics other than “I’ll find a guy!”
Same woman may have called Rush. I think she is from Cruz campaign.
He is a successful business and you think he had no strategy???
Part of the pincer movement with Cruz against Rubio.
Marco does o.k. when he is regurgitating his stump speech. That was what he did during the debate. Same thing with Fiorina.
I'm thinking you also are fuzzy on the meaning of the word.
Trump is right. Rubio is little amnesty pimping nothing burger being propped up by the GOPe as their original boy Bush fades to black.
I am sorry, but strategy was:
1. Coming out against illegal immigration and for a wall
(Let’s see, this put him in the polling lead.)
2. Coming out with a simple and lower tax plan, when people wanted to know how he would handle taxes. Again, his strategy was to lead the discussion on this issue. (Since the Trump plan debuted, others have followed with essentially similar plans.)
3. Saying that if (when) elected he would send all Syrian refugees back to a safe protected camp in the Middle East. (He did this before anyone realized that this policy would end up being the safest recommendation, and he also recognized that this was a severe humanitarian need. Now this is becoming the best strategy that I can imagine.)
4. Saying he would bomb the (you know what) out of ISIS territory, including denying the oil. How about this for a call, he did this before the Paris attack. (Now France and Russia are carrying this out (with some help from USA) but Trump is being proved correct again.)
How in the world can anyone conclude that Trump has not had the correct strategy and anticipated the need for his strategy. Where has Rubio done this? His strategy had to do with being open and compassionate to immigrants from the Latin countries to the South. I agree with Trump about this one, Rubio is not up to the task.
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