That was a tough interview to get through without nodding off. It was almost all RNC-approved mush. The only interesting, laudable thing in the interview was the hardline stance on China with some specific and harsh critical language. Everything else was vague, boring, unconvincing boilerplate of the kind that Romney specializes in.
There was a bunch of vague talk about how Obama didn’t “fix” the economy and nothing offered but the assumption that Romney would. We get complaining about the debt and the tax code without any specifics on where spending will be cut or what will be changed in the tax code. In fact Rubio offers lip service to the idea that it’s never a good idea to have deficit spending while touting that we should not cut one penny of foreign aid. This is just awful double speak worthy of Obama.
He claims Romney’s running as a “free market” candidate without defining what that means. It certainly doesn’t mean in my book Romney’s constant “me too” on Obama-approved bailouts, subsidies and welfare entitlement programs.
Arguing that Obama shouldn’t be able to tout the Bin Laden raid in his reelection campaign is a ridiculous losing position to take. Any President has the right to tout their accomplishments. The Democrats tried to say the same thing about Bush using 9/11 in his campaign ads, and they were wrong and idiotic for saying that too. We hire a President to be a good Commander-in-Chief, so it’s utterly disingenuous to say they can’t try to sell themselves that way.
Wallace also destroyed Rubio on the Iran issue because, like he says, they are offering no specific plan that has any contrast to what Obama’s doing.
Rubio also spent a lot of time praising the Republican party for being “tolerant” of pro-choice Republican RINOs. He went out of his way to bring it up in fact. 100% sure that this is the line the RNC and their consultants are pushing along with being pro-same-sex marriage. They want to destroy social conservatism and are hard at work doing it and using their golden boy lapdogs like Rubio to help every chance they get.
His effort to explain why he is qualified to be Vice President was surprisingly laughable. Just compare to the YouTube video when Newt Gingrich explained why Sarah Palin was qualified. He had many more points, all of them more salient and impressive than what Rubio said here about himself.
I don’t even mind the DREAM Act issue much, because the idea that people should be punished who were brought here illegally as children is just ridiculous and unprecedented in any legal code I’m aware of. If a parent trespasses somewhere and brings their child along, is the child prosecuted? More annoying is that he defended Romney for “voting present” on the issue as Romney famously likes to do on almost every issue.
Overall, Rubio is clearly an establishment hack in training and along with Romney, would take the GOP further to the left than it’s ever gone before. They would take “compassionate conservatism” to a whole new level, continue massive entitlement spending, and do absolutely nothing to actually “fix the economy” by changing us back to the kind of opportunity society that Newt Gingrich and the real conservatives have been pushing their whole careers. With people like Rubio as the up-and-comers replacing national heroes of the movement like Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp and Newt Gingrich, conservatism is truly on its way out and set to die in America as we become a European socialist welfare state and shortly thereafter become whatever those states become when they inevitably fail on a grand scale.
Probably not. Are the children then allowed to stay?
"If a parent trespasses somewhere and brings their child along, is the child prosecuted?"
"Probably not. Are the children then allowed to stay?"
Reasonable questions both.
In fact there are BILLIONS of people who would love that country.