Rubio swings both ways!
Posted on 02/07/2016 5:17:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Marco Rubio knew exactly what he was doing on Saturday night.
Marco Rubio knew exactly what he was doing on Saturday night.
Marco Rubio knew exactly what he was doing on Saturday night.
The problem was he flubbed it.
Rubio awkwardly pivoted four times to a well-rehearsed line that President Barack Obama "knows exactly what he's doing" as he tried to drill home the idea that he's the inevitable general election candidate - an unforced error that his rivals pounced on and that quickly went viral.
"There it is. There it is. The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody," Chris Christie charged.
It was a defining moment as Rubio's opponents successfully turned two of his greatest strengths -- his eloquence and message discipline -- against him in the final debate before the New Hampshire primary, casting the Florida senator as a lightweight leader who has been lifted by little more than lofty and canned rhetoric.
Christie led the charge on stage, and rival campaigns joined in, gleefully tweeted out a new "Marco Rubio Glitch" Twitter account that captured the robotic repeats and gained more than 1,000 followers quickly after the debate wrapped up.
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ROTFL yowza. I doubt the mods can change THAT for me.
Oily snake in the grass Pro Amnesty RINO. Just like Jeb.
You smell that Ike?
Smells like somebody died.
It has at last come to light the reason he drinks so MUCH water. After eating all those crackers (Talk, Poly, talk; Poly want a cracker) one understands the thirst. Perhaps we should give him a few points considering he does repeat the phrase with a smile on his face. Helps to keep his image intact.
I hate Christie because of his liberal side and acquiescence to gun control, but I actually think he would make a decent President in terms of being able to handle the job. At least he’s actually engaging the debate and not reciting campaign rhetoric.
Rubio swings both ways!
In Rubio’s defense, all of the candidates in these debates have 1 to 2 minutes to respond to questions and 30 seconds to respond to attacks. In that time, they have to be frugal, but responsive, with words. Thus, they all have favorite ‘to-the-point’ phrases in their repertoire.
That said, constantly using canned phrases does lend itself to the claim of robot-ism. Fiorina did similar, but she expanded her pre-prepared responses to more lengthy responses.
Hey it’s blooper guys like you that make this place fun.
Hugh Hewitt on MTP predicts an ‘open’ convention for the GOP.
[Nah! Unless some drastic ‘macaca’ event happens, the Republican nomination will likely be wrapped up by the end of the March primaries.]
LOL, was the triple post an accident, or did you just go full Rubio?
I see what you did there... ;-)
Mario Rubco shouldn’t have any future elections. Once he schemed with Schumer to stab the citizens in the back he was finished as far as I am concerned.
My policy is never give more knives to backstabbers
Wonder what Rush will have to say about his boy tomorrow or will he have a stand in?
Not to disparage your point, but it’s “Dragon’s Lair” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair).
Hey, it was Thirty Five years ago!
I’m lucky I remember where I left my keys!
Heh. I spent a little time in arcades in that timeframe. At $0.50 a pop in ‘80s money, Dragon’s Lair was a game I elected to watch others play, plus ‘memorize sequence’ games like that and Pac Man were not my thing.
It’s an OK deal purchased for PC or whatever game machine now; it’s a better deal if you can find somewhere to rent it on DVD/Bluray as the fun wears off about the time a rental would be due.
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