Finally you and I are on the same page here..
There’s a live thread.
Saw it. It was his only memorized response. He couldn’t say anything else of the top of his head.
Repeating memorized soundbites. If you’re Marco Rubio, “it’s what you do”.
Rubio is not a U.S. Citizen, so it matters not.
For a while there with Rubio it was like watching Groundhog Day.
I think he just got nervous, after being aggressively attacked from most every direction. Once Marco could re-calibrate, he was okay again, more fluid.
As I said on another thread, Rubio’s speeches are like machine guns assault. Rapid to the point of uncomfortable. He needs to cut the caffeine.
The Boy in the bubble got his bubble popped by Christie big time.
That didn’t bother me. I thought everyone spoke well which is a plus for the Republican party. It must have choked the liberal commentators to have to discuss the debate in a respectable manner.
That is the problem when one has just memorized answers.
For the record I am unalterably opposed to the candidacy of Marco Rubio because he betrayed the nation on immigration, all as so thoroughly and damningly documented by Phyllis Schlafly. I am equally opposed to Donald Trump because he is an opportunistic bounder who has no allegiance whatsoever to conservatism but only to his own ego.
But on substance Rubio is quite correct, the problem with Barack Obama is not competence or the lack of it as Donald Trump alleges but ideology. A candidate like Donald Trump who is willing to attack Barack Obama only on the issue of competence does so for selfish reasons, he does not want people looking at Donald Trump's ideology. The very idea that our negotiators are too stupid to know what they are doing when they negotiate treaties with Iran or in the Pacific Rim is simply preposterous. These are highly intelligent people who do what they do because they believe they are right and we conservatives are wrong.
Rubio's point is important because this state of affairs cannot be cured by appointing "smart people" to negotiate or by cutting "deals" with the establishment in Washington, the problem must be solved by the recognition and implementation of conservative ideology, an argument I have been advancing on these threads for months.
Donald Trump does not take this line because he does not believe this line. Trump wants to become president so he can do what Trump wants to do. Trump is a man without ideology and that is nearly as bad as the wrong ideology. Rubio is a man who knows what the correct ideology is, but he is a sellout.
That leaves Ted Cruz as the viable choice.
It was simply amazing to watch!
While unlike Rush, I don’t like Rubio but the line is correct.
I remember how Rubio lied to Rush during the gang of eight debacle and how angry Rush was.
Now he tells us Rubio is a conservative.
I’m surprised that no one has raised the spectre that he was on something. No one in their right mind would repeat it again and again after just getting called out on it. It was bizarre and devastating.