Posted on 12/10/2015 3:45:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Clinton triangulated his way to victory against the Republicans in 1992. But can Rubio pull off a similar trick within his party to secure the nomination?
In more ordinary political times, Marco Rubio’s position on abortion, opposing any exceptions, not even for rape and incest, would be a career-ender on a national ticket. But in an election cycle where more rules have been broken than kept, Rubio has found a way to wiggle out of the most extreme interpretation of what he said in the GOP’s first presidential debate, and it goes like this:
My preference is the position of my church. I have supported in the past and would support in the future bills with exceptions. I want to save as many lives as possible.
It sounds a lot like Democrat Bill Clinton circa 1992 struggling to center his party in the mainstream on cultural issues. Abortion should be “safe, legal and rare,†Clinton said, a declaration that signaled he was a New Democrat who could reorient his party to win nationally....
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ping to 20.
I think Rubio is Howard Dean.
Yeeeeaaarrrrgh!
Nope, not at all, Clinton could actually come across as likeable.
Eleanor Clift gives me the creeps.
Rubio is a smarmy, sleazy, used car salesman and remains dead to me.
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