You are correct. Rubio no business playing ball with the media when they start asking these irrelevant questions. The fact that Rubio 1. didn’t swat the question away immediately, and 2. chiose to give an in-depth answer indicates that he is either 1. clueless and/or 2. willing to cooperate with the media. This simple event speaks volumes. Rubio is NOT the candidate for me. So far it is Cruz.
Rubio went for the bait which means there will be plenty more of these trap questions in the future, since it worked so well against Rubio. When one conservative folds it makes it much more difficult for all the other conservatives as the liberal media will pit one conservative against the other, sort of like a row of dominoes—hit one domino and all the others fall.
If Rubio swatted the question away and all other irrelevant questions as well the liberal media would get tired of this game because they would see that it does not work for them. I have seen many liberal politicians dancing away from question that they do not wish to answer.
Why don’t conservatives take a page from the liberals book. Conservatives do not have to be dishonest but they do not have to be “as wise as serpents, as harmless as doves.”