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Rubio Was Right, and Chris Christie was Wrong About Obama
National Review ^ | 02/09/2016 | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 02/09/2016 6:46:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/09/2016 6:46:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto
2 posted on 02/09/2016 6:51:14 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Yet Rubio also had an important point: Christie’s premise is dead wrong. Obama has not steered the Titanic into an iceberg because he is an unprepared, untested amateur. He has done it quite deliberately, at times masterfully, because Obama believes in the policies that constitute the iceberg. He is a movement leftist with a transformational agenda and an Alinskyite’s understanding of the extortionate uses of power.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s what I immediately thought when I heard the exchange. I’m pretty sure the fat slime ball knew what Rubio meant by (pp) “It’s wrong to say Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing”. It was a real cheap shot, which Trump (surprise surprise) also took at him on that point.


3 posted on 02/09/2016 6:54:31 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: ETL

Except . . . Trump yesterday said EXACTLY this about Hillary. Trump knows that Obama isn’t on the ballot. The opponent is Hillary. Rubio (and, I guess, Cruz) are fighting the last war. Trump fighting the next one.

Moreover, I’m just waiting until someone exposes Rubio on this. I would bet dollars to donuts that in 2009-10, even though he was only a FL legislator, Rubio said very nice things about Zero. They ALL did. Rush was alone is saying “I hope he fails.” So Rubio may be in for a giant “gotcha.”


4 posted on 02/09/2016 7:01:42 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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...just wanted to clarify my previous and say that Rubio was not ENTIRELY correct when he said Obama “knows what he’s doing”. Because he incorrectly claimed that Obama was trying to make the US like the rest of the world. That part was/is wrong. Obama wants to (ultimately) make the US more like communist Cuba, rather than some European socialist country. The guy has been hardcore commie left his entire life.

“Rubio said several times during the attack that Obama indeed ‘knows exactly what he’s doing,’ which is trying to make the country ‘like the rest of the world.’ “


5 posted on 02/09/2016 7:11:30 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, on the merits, but Rubio lost on the visuals. My wife said he looked like a little boy caught peeing in the corner.

Can I say “little boy”?


6 posted on 02/09/2016 7:17:16 AM PST by jwalsh07 (On)
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To: ETL

Liberal websites are interpreting Rubio’s comment as high praise, as in, “Obama accomplished a lot” and it is not clear that Rubio didn’t mean just that.


7 posted on 02/09/2016 7:18:08 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: SeekAndFind

Rubio was right, Obama of course knows precisely what he’s doing - but Rubio’s still a TRAITOR and a LIAR and needs to be stopped.

Rubio came off bad because the Dems and the media simply will not allow anyone to get away with saying that Obama knows what he’s doing and he’s also pure evil...if Obama has a few things wrong, we must believe that his intentions are good.

The GOPe also got on Rubio’s case because they are TOO STUPID to understand that Rubio is right - they are simply incapable of it, just as most FReepers still trust public schools to the extent of sending their kids there - DESPITE everything they read here and hear from others.

My thought is that Rubio is trying to reach Rush, as Rush does understand that Rubio is right...and perhaps Rush may even throw more support his way...while at the same time conveniently forgetting about his TRAITOROUS leadership in the Gang of Eight Amnesty bill.


8 posted on 02/09/2016 7:19:30 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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Rubio was right, Obama of course knows precisely what he’s doing...Rubio came off bad because...

It was the way the chubby slime ball pounced on him that only made it *seem* like he (Rubio) was off base. An all-style/zero substance, shameless cheap shot.

9 posted on 02/09/2016 7:29:28 AM PST by ETL (Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better, safer America)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Domo Arigato Mr. Roboto

The Rubio Hand Puppet is owned/controlled/pawned by the Open Borders Elite Thugs!!!!

Rubio swings both ways!


10 posted on 02/09/2016 7:32:22 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Delegate count to date: Cruz 8, Trump 7, Rubio 7, Carson 3, Bush 1, Paul 1)
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To: ETL

Rubio is the biggest Establishment threat to Trump/Cruz right now. If it takes a chubby slimeball to knock him out, so be it.


11 posted on 02/09/2016 7:34:03 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: BobL

There will be no “Trump/Cruz.” Trump will choose a liberal like Kasich or even a Democrat just to shock people. You watch. Or maybe he will choose another reality TV star. No possible way he will choose Cruz. He can’t. Remember he thinks he is not qualified. He thinks he is a maniac.

Don’t sell Trump with the promise of Cruz. It won’t happen.


12 posted on 02/09/2016 8:04:35 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: SeekAndFind

Rush noted that the governor candidates (Christie, Bush, Kasich) all want Obama to be portrayed as a bumbling idiot because all three of them have had to work WITH Obama.

It wouldn’t look good to say that Obama has deliberately destroyed America...and then have someone point out that they’ve worked with Obama.

Thus Christie is using Rubio to sway the argument away from evil Obama over to idiot Obama.

Christie should not be trusted.
Rubio needs to buy a thesaurus.


13 posted on 02/09/2016 8:13:15 AM PST by kidd
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To: jwalsh07

Can I say “little boy”?
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If Rubio’s black and you’re white, then no.


14 posted on 02/09/2016 8:16:24 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I want someone who can win. All of the candidates would be better than a Clinton presidency. I do not buy the arugment that Rubio is a moderate. It is just not the case at all. Yes, I am a social issues voter so he is really good for me. But I think he really can win. I will gladly support Ted Cruz if someone can explain to me how the hell he will ever get moderates and independents or hispanics to support him. If you really think, like he does, that millions of conservatives are out there just waiting on someone like him, then I have so sea front property I would like to sell you in Oklahoma. And Trump is such a wild card, that he really could implode in the General. He is dangerous when it comes to how he will play out in the general election. And save the amnesty crap, they are all going to do about the same thing. I hope I am wrong, but I don’t think so.


15 posted on 02/09/2016 8:45:23 AM PST by andy1954
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To: SeekAndFind

Rubio got owned by Christie at the debate... There is no spin, despite the best efforts of some, to show otherwise.

Rubio had his chance, he blew it. Looks like he may be on deck to lose to KASICH of all people... KASICH!


16 posted on 02/09/2016 8:48:19 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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RE: Rubio got owned by Christie at the debate... There is no spin, despite the best efforts of some, to show otherwise.

I am not a RUBIO supporter, but I don’t see him being OWNED at all by Christie at least when it comes to the SUBSTANCE of the issues.

The entire thing is ostensibly a matter of personal perspective.

As for Kasich, the man has put his GROUND GAME in New Hampshire early on. I’d be surprised if he did badly here.


17 posted on 02/09/2016 8:52:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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RE: The billboard

Rubio seems to be saying the opposite of that.


18 posted on 02/09/2016 8:53:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Rubio got slapped, if you don’t see it, then there is nothing I am going to say to convince you so. Polls show it, post debate Rubio went into free fall.

Rubio had his moment in the sun, and its now over.

Lots of folks had their ground game in NH early... don’t see them topping the polls... Rubio is looking like he’s going to lose to Kasich, his claim the establishment voters are rallying to him after IA, just got chopped off at the knees.


19 posted on 02/09/2016 8:59:00 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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RE: Rubio got slapped, if you don’t see it, then there is nothing I am going to say to convince you so.

Again I will agree with you on one thing, he got “slapped” (note the quotes ) only in terms of the shouting match. On the SUBSTANCE, he was still right as this article so eloquently explained.

As a debate watcher, I am less interested in who shouts or taunts the loudest but on the CONTENT of what they say.


20 posted on 02/09/2016 9:01:02 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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