Posted on 01/25/2016 6:45:54 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Watching the video, it's clear he was trying to be funny -- the audience laughed -- and I'm generally inclined to cut candidates some slack when they're obviously joking around.  But in this case, I’m not sure Rubio's rhetoric is quite so easy to dismiss. Celebrating a natural disaster while it's ongoing -- we're talking about a blizzard that left at least 30 people dead -- is bizarre, especially for a presidential candidate. As many actual comedians can attest, there is such a thing as "too soon."  For that matter, the nature of Rubio's pitch is absurd. The senator, an enthusiastic proponent of his party's government-shutdown scheme in 2013, thinks it's fantastic when a disaster paralyzes federal operations -- which is part of his pitch as to why he should be president of the United States?  Even some Republicans took aim at Rubio’s tone-deaf comments.
Republican presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday that rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)'s comment about the winter storm showed "a real immaturity."
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I never got over him yucking it up with his Gang after they passed that Senate abomination
Comprehensively Screwing Americans Out Of Their Country
Never give more knives to backstabbers
There are still FReepers who want this guy to give away the country
Rinio is for amnesty for illegal aliens with his buddy— upchuck schumer and john mc amnesty.
Rubio is racing toward being a blip on the radar. He has a better chance of being hit in a drone strike than becoming President.
15!!
He 8is a total RINO phoney. I would stay home but thank God , I will walk proudly to the poll and vote for President TRUMP!!
I think Trump’s joke about walking out in the street and shooting someone without loosing any support was a bit funnier don’t you think?
It was ok when Obama did it.
“I never got over him yucking it up with his Gang after they passed that Senate abomination”
I’d give him a pass on the storm, but he’ll have to have, AT LEAST, 12 more years in the Senate, perfect on immigration, before this voter ever considers him for the top job.
That’s obviously true with you (although maybe 96 years for you), and I think it will be a VERY HARD memory for most conservatives to erase...not just the which side he took, but the fact that he used the Tea Party to achieve office, and then IMMEDIATELY threw us all overboard.
“I think Trump’s joke about walking out in the street and shooting someone without loosing any support was a bit funnier don’t you think?”
It did make a point about us...and him, the point being that there are issues MUCH MORE important than personality quirks.
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