Posted on 02/11/2016 3:00:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio turned up the heat on his opponents -- proactively calling them out by name -- while campaigning in South Carolina on Thursday.
Rubio touted his international affairs record on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, while taking aim at the experience of Ohio Governor John Kasich, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and the GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump -- all of whom won more votes than him in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.
"We'll have a debate on Saturday. Who on that stage has more experience or has shown better judgment or a better understanding of the foreign policy and national security issues than I have, on that stage?" Rubio asked at a town hall on Hilton Head Island....
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
He isn’t staying in the “Game” — he will become the next Mornin’ Joe, after he finishes his term in the Senate. He might even leave early to take a media job.
Mark my words, you heard it here first.
Rubio is dead to me.
Sure Marco, whatever you say.
No, I agree. I probably have a better chance at the nomination. LOL
As Christie noted in the NH debate, Rubio didn't even show up to vote on his own anti-terrorism bill.
Rubio responded that Obama is acting intentionally.
Wow...a committee. That's a great resume filler... /sarc
Are we sure Rubio even showed up to the meetings?
“What a laff riot.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/12/15/who-said-what-and-what-it-meant-the-fifth-gop-debate-annotated/
HEWITT: Mr. Trump...
(APPLAUSE)
... Dr. Carson just referenced the single most important job of the president, the command, the control and the care of our nuclear forces. And he mentioned the triad. The B-52s are older than I am. The missiles are old. The submarines are aging out. It’s an executive order. It’s a commander-in-chief decision.
What’s your priority among our nuclear triad?
TRUMP: Well, first of all, I think we need somebody absolutely that we can trust, who is totally responsible; who really knows what he or she is doing. That is so powerful and so important. And one of the things that I’m frankly most proud of is that in 2003, 2004, I was totally against going into Iraq because you’re going to destabilize the Middle East. I called it. I called it very strongly. And it was very important.
But we have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ball game. Frankly, I would have said get out of Syria; get out — if we didn’t have the power of weaponry today. The power is so massive that we can’t just leave areas that 50 years ago or 75 years ago we wouldn’t care. It was hand-to-hand combat.
The biggest problem this world has today is not President Obama with global warming, which is inconceivable, this is what he’s saying. The biggest problem we have is nuclear — nuclear proliferation and having some maniac, having some madman go out and get a nuclear weapon. That’s in my opinion, that is the single biggest problem that our country faces right now.
HEWITT: Of the three legs of the triad, though, do you have a priority? I want to go to Senator Rubio after that and ask him.
TRUMP: I think — I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me.
HEWITT: Senator Rubio, do you have a response?
RUBIO: I do. First, let’s explain to people at home who the triad — what the triad is. Maybe a lot of people haven’t heard that terminology before. The triad is our ability of the United States to conduct nuclear attacks using airplanes, using missiles launched from silos or from the ground, and also from our nuclear subs’ ability to attack. And it’s important — all three of them are critical. It gives us the ability at deterrence.
Now, some have become more critical than others; for example, the submarines. And that’s the Ohio Class submarine that needs to be modernized. The air component also needs to be modernized. The B-52, as someone earlier pointed out, is an outdated model that was flown by the grandparents of people that are flying it now. And we need a serious modernization program as well on our silo-launched missiles. All three are critical for the defense of the country.
For sure he does have his next gig lined up but as much as FNC folks have propped him up, they should make him Vice President of either their "foreign affairs" staff or even Presidente of their Spanish division, stationed in Mexico City!
Go Royals!
I can SELL OUT the American People better than all of my opponents!
Hell of a Campaign Slogan
Where does this little twerp get the idea he is an expert on foreign policy.
A lady just called Hannity and stated that Rubio was brilliant, as opposed to Trump who is not, she said. This is what I posted about him last September. Things have not changed:
“DT is completely *lost* when it comes to foreign policy vis a vis Rubio who is brilliant.”
Rubio glibly spouting off memorized bullet points impresses you? Rubio is consistently calling for amnesty for illegal aliens.
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he will become the next Mornin’ Joe
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Have they found a dead intern in his office?
Rubio is dead to me.
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That should be the attitude of anyone who values their citizenship, not to mention the rule of law.
Rubio and all the amnesty whores need to be banished politically.
CANTORIZE YOUR WEASELS, AMERICA!
Never discount the determination of the GOPe:
A well-read high school freshman should know what the nuclear triad is. I know I did.
If there is a brokered convention, it will be Trumps to loose. Cruz is prepared for a brokered convention but Rubio is burning the bridges now that he would need to have any play — that is what this thread started with — reports of his attacks.
Considering that Trump has concluded more successful deals in foreign countries in the last 7 years than the entire Obama State Department and any or all of the Republican candidates combined I’d say ....BS!
This article reminds me of something...oh yeah:
October Rubio: “someone had convinced you that attacking me is going to help you.”
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