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.
I guess it is when you are a gubmint cheese sucking parasitic politician.
Rubio is just the sacrificial “not jeb” splitter in florida.
a useful idiot.
he should not have run but he was suckered.
Damnit Ben, I’m laughing my head off over that one.Thank you so much.I really needed that.
The sorry bastard lied that’s how.He wont win/seek reelection.
“I understand what he means by that. I don’t mean that as a slight," the Florida senator insisted,IOW, please Donald don't come after me...I didn't mean anything by it.
Sen. Rubio - your AMERICA might be ‘great’ at the moment. Living in the rarefied air where you reside, earning the salary that you earn, above common citizens...yes, it would make sense that you believe AMERICA to be great. But, and trust me on this, You have not experienced the America that many of WTP have known. THAT AMERICA was great, God fearing, Law abiding, Defender of Justice WE WERE A MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY. Alas, that country is remembered only by US more mature citizens and one that will ever be known to a young whipper snapper such as you. Your greatness doesn’t even come close to that which was lost
God to Rubio: America is not great right now -
"All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity." Isaiah 40:17 KJV
Yeah. And sometimes He allows us to pick the tyrant we want.
“Marco the Rube”.. America’s bad headache.
Rubberio is very flexible.............
Go suck an egg.
Who turns out not to be a tyrant at all. Like Solomon.
No, it's not, you feckless idiot.
I have seen when America was great, and it did not look like this.
Thanks for sharing your brilliance with us.
Trump is certainly no Solomon.
I mean, unless he’s got a thousand wives and concubines I don’t know about.
But in the wisdom department? No.
Rubio is an idiot. He just waved bye bye.......
Ignored Amnesty Boy begs for attention.
"But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong."
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