Posted on 09/01/2015 1:54:34 PM PDT by maggief
GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Tuesday continued to push back against front-runner Donald Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again,” instead of going after the billionaire businessman himself.
“There’s one other candidate running, he says he’s going to make America great again,” Rubio told about 200 people gathered in a community center in Nevada, according to The New York Times.
“I understand what he means by that. I don’t mean that as a slight," the Florida senator insisted, according to the newspaper.
“I would remind everyone America is great,” Rubio continued. “There’s no nation on earth I would trade places with. There’s no other country I would rather be. The issue is not that we’re not great. The issue is whether we will remain great. The issue is, we can be even greater than we are now. We can be even more prosperous, more powerful."
Rubio, who has shied away from directly attacking Trump, has repeatedly taken issue with the slogan that has become synonymous with the real estate mogul’s 2016 White House bid.
"In comparison to where the world is today, yeah, America's still a great country. But that's not due to our policies, that's despite our policies," Rubio told CNBC as part of an interview released last week.
Before that, Rubio said on Fox News that "America is a great country. ... We could be even greater."
Rubio, who has cast his own campaign as a bid for "A New American Century," has remained in the top tier of GOP candidates, placing fifth of 17 in the latest Public Policy Polling survey released on Tuesday.
From The Hill, it figures
Rubio was apparently in the cross hairs of the Fla. GOPee. Just goes to show how far left the Col. West hatin’ Fla. GOPee are.
Source: Face the Nation 2014 interview: 2016 presidential hopefuls, Sep 7, 2014
Would you prefer the NYT?
In a campaign stop here in Northern Nevada on Tuesday, Mr. Rubio insisted that Mr. Trump’s claim implied that America wasn’t great, when he said nothing could be further from the truth.
“There’s one other candidate running, he says he’s going to make America great again,” Mr. Rubio told a crowd of about 200 people at a community center here. “I understand what he means by that. I don’t mean that as a slight.”
“I would remind everyone America is great,” Mr. Rubio continued. “There’s no nation on earth I would trade places with. There’s no other country I would rather be. The issue is not that we’re not great. The issue is whether we will remain great. The issue is, we can be even greater than we are now. We can be even more prosperous, more powerful.”
Have you actually looked around at the America of the last 10 years Marco? Especially the last seven have sucked and the traitor in chief and his minions have been doing everything in their power to make America mediocre so as to not make the rest of the world feel bad about themselves. Go home Marco, just go home.
A distinction without a difference.
Not really. You just admitted that America is not as great as it once was.
Which everybody knows to be the case, including Donald Trump. Why else would he have a campaign slogan like “make America great AGAIN”?
Rubio has proven to be a wanker!
Rubio, you dumba$$!
Rubio:
We have been badly tarnished
If you have any smart friends, go ask them. I don’t have the time.
Whatever.
I get that he wants to run a positive campaign...
But
Have you seen the labor participation rate?
Are you aware of the national debt?
America has been dragged far down by the liberals, statists and social engineers.
We aren’t in the basement yet but it isn’t far away.
Poor FL people: they will be torn to shreds having to pick between Jebbie and Rubio.
No Marco America is wounded right now by a self inflicted wound from a Commie lovin Muslim President. The cure is Trump.
Mush from Rubio that doesn’t mesh with what a clear majority of Americans feel and know—just to try to contradict Trump.
Abraham Lincoln, a man of extremely limited national political experience, virtually no military experience (he joked about it),so unlikely to be his party's nominee that they didn't even have him in the program. Lincoln was not (in 1860) just a "lukewarm Christian," but he had as a younger man written a tract that raked Christianity over the coals.
Every time God raises someone up who doesn't conform to the "pious" people's expectation, He laughs. At some point, you'd think we'd learn.
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