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To: smoothsailing

Hmmmmm. Me too and I guess that is why I didn’t see a thing wrong with Rubio attempting to drive home who and what the real problem is and attempt to focus on Obama and the democrats. Instead the new conservative darling, Chris Christie, who considers Obama nothing more than a “petulant child” became the hero of the night.


45 posted on 02/08/2016 1:32:45 PM PST by Toespi
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To: Toespi

What Rubio said was spot on, it needs to be said.

He could have handled it better, IMO.

He came across as flustered by Christie.

His robotic repetition of a talking point was alarming for such a normally smooth debater.


59 posted on 02/08/2016 1:39:57 PM PST by smoothsailing
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You miss the point. I don't see a problem with what Rubio said, it is how he said it. Rubio has been accused of being a robotic like candidate, programmed with canned sound bites, advised to the hilt to the point that he is nothing more than an empty suit. Get it?

Rubio proved them correct. It isn't that he is wrong, it is that he is a programmed robot, where regardless of the question, he spouts off a memorized awkward non sequitur three times. AFTER Christie calls him out for his robotic, canned memorized responses, Rubio proceeds to follow the thing he does best and that is to repeat a third time the same robotic, canned 25 second memorized speech of a slick politician. Which, again, was an awkward non sequitur.

Rubio proved his own critics correct that he is a programmed empty suit. The content was irrelevant.

I also read today, that Rubio ran an ad for two weeks in NH, which deeply hurt Christie. Christie was running a close second to Trump and was popular in NH. The ad focused on common core and something else, I can't remember right now. Christie took a dive in the polls of NH and he has not recovered. That is why Christie was taking victory laps on Sunday, he really did want to hurt Rubio and he did, but not certain if it will be a lasting scar or not.

122 posted on 02/08/2016 10:30:24 PM PST by Dave W
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