Posted on 10/04/2015 9:07:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There’s a kind of narrative that tends to develop about every candidate for president.
Donald Trump is a braggart willing to mercilessly criticize anyone who dares to criticize him. Ben Carson’s patrician, maybe even laconic public speaking style camouflages his controversial -- even incendiary -- ideas. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush is a well-funded and cerebral but socially awkward WASP. And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the boy wonder, has purchased real estate in the safest and most carefully staged campaign zip codes, biding his time for when Trump flames out.
You’ll note that beyond perhaps Trump, not one of the ideas above are ones that the candidates' respective campaigns would embrace. These are the ideas that the political press has developed and repeated in the months since each man declared his official interest in -- or candidacy for -- the White House.
With that in mind, I would like to think that the reason Rubio’s mid-August appearance on Fox News's "The Kelly File" has suddenly become the subject of lots of online posts and write-ups, more than a month and a half after it aired, is the substance of what Rubio said. Rubio was, well, not the Rubio we've come to expect. He took a somewhat bold position.
The young Florida senator moved pretty close to the edge of said safe zone when he told Fox News's heavily conservative audience that the Black Lives Matter movement really isn’t an irrational or imaginary set of concerns....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Great sign
Rubio seems to think he can bamboozle voters. Apparently he can with some anyway, he’s not down at 4% with ¡Yeb!, who is at least being honest that he wants to implement Democrat policies.
Nothing Rubio says is worth listening to for one simple reason.
Rubio lies.
All the time.
— Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) September 30, 2015
First Haley Barbour's got to get them to the polls.
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