“I heard the Brett Bair interviw of Rubio last night, and Rubio was terrific. I still have questions about him, however, but what I saw last night was pretty good.”
I saw the interview too, and he speaks well, is polished and definitely knows what he’s talking about with foreign policy. But when Bair asked him about defunding P.P., he said we definitely should, but then said something to the effect that it was too late to do anything about because “our leadership did not lay the groundwork for this fight early on, so now we will be the ones blamed for a shutdown” — not an exact quote, but words to that effect. That tells you all you need to know about his willingness to stand up to the elites in both parties and fight for something he truly believes in. He had just got done saying how defunding P.P. was hugely important because it was a “human rights” issue, but then said it was too late to do anything about it this year (even though the shutdown fight hasn’t really even started yet) and we would have to wait until we have a new POTUS.
Exactly...I just posted something similar. I flipped when I heard that. In other words, give us more, we still don’t have enough and we’re not principled enough to stand up against the Dems in Congress and the President and force a shutdown or a veto. So what if the veto is overridden? At least the took a stand. I see backbone in him...too much politician and calculation on wind direction. Enough.
DON’T see a backbone...correction.
Rubio puts me in mind of a loquacious child that talks and talks, never seeming to take a breath, and you really want the child to be quiet.
Sorry to sound petty, but I don’t listen to the president’s speeches now, it would be nice to look forward to them again in the future.