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.
So, he thinks obama and boehner are doing a good job?
Thank you, EternalVigilance! See my post above.
Rubio looks and speaks like a boy. Have another swig of water, kiddo.
Great for illegals who get the free stuff, the rest of us pay for.
America is only “great” right now for the establishment elite types who are lining their pockets by going along to get along with Otreason and Marco doesn’t want to rock that boat.
Nailed it.
Not a very promising move for Rubio. Marco, you don’t have to contradict every little thing Trump says, and you shouldn’t get lost in insubstantial details.
Most excellent!
Great? America is a pale, pathetic shadow of everything it once was and once stood for.
We’re now a lawless, open-borders banana republic. With a putrid, deviant, faggoty culture that worships depravity.
America has become an open sewer.
I really don’t understand why Florida Tea Party groups worked so hard to get this guy elected to the Senate in the first place. What were they thinking?
Maybe Marco has been in a coma for awhile?
That’s cause Marco is still a pampered US Senator. Once he loses that job and his failed Presidency bid, he will do a Michelle in reverse “First time I have not been proud of my country”.
Uh, any country that elected an 0bama TWICE is not great. QED.
In other words, he thinks obama has done an excellent job as president??? Got it!
Trumps presence just causes these people to take off the masks and reveal what ass hats they all are
Oh, shut up, water bottle boy.
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