Did you see where Rubio went into a different do-loop re the difficulty in raising kids? By the time he got to the part, ‘ down our throats,’ he realized his record was skipping again. He bravely soldiered through to the end of the quote, though, (which in this case he had completed less than a minute before his needle skipped back, and he had to run through the whole spiel again).
It must be some form of OCD, or perhaps a non-profane version of Tourettes.
I think that even though he is not of the generation of Kasich and Bush, he is attempting to do his speeches like that old 1980s way of perfect little speeches making the candidate look like an encyclopedia.
I don’t believe we are even interested in canned sound bites any more. I think Obama and his ever present teleprompters really killed any attraction we Americans have for perfect speeches. What we like in 2016 is “keeping it real.” We want to see a Trump, Christie kind of speech, where the guy just talks. From his heart, from his brain. He speaks with passion, he might mess up, but he stays on track and doesn’t appear at all phony.
I believe it is tone deaf of the times now when you get these “son of a mailman” speeches or the chock-full-o-data memorized sound bites. We want candidates to show they can speak off the cuff, passionately, strongly, and make quick changes in their speech to adapt to immediate circumstances. We want it real.