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Marco Rubio Bombs in SOTU Rebuttal/2016 Audition
The problem with having to do the SOTU rebuttal is that you have to try to anticipate what will resonate in the president’s State of the Union. Marco Rubio and the GOP guessed wrong.
Sen. Rubio played up the whole, “look at me, I’m Hispanic” card, but beyond that he hit the Republican buzzwords about valuing life and free enterprise. Rubio immediately went off the rails by attacking Obama, and the Republicans completely guessed wrong by claiming that Obama’s solution was more taxes, more government, and more spending. In fact, Obama didn’t call for more government, but that didn’t stop the wrong track Republicans from putting poor Rubio out there to mouth the same old talking points. (Obamacare, check.)
If this is Rubio’s big 2016 audition, the Republican Party is in big trouble. Rubio played to the global warming deniers, the far right, and the Obama haters.
The suspicions of many were confirmed tonight. Marco Rubio isn’t being touted because he is a potentially great candidate with unique ideas. Sen. Rubio is a Sarah Palinesque attempt at courting the Hispanic vote in 2016. Rubio even name dropped Solyndra. The only thing missing from his rebuttal was a mention of Rev. Wright.
The Republican Party put a different colored face on their same old ideas, and they think the American people are dumb enough to fall for it. It didn’t work in 2008, and it won’t work in 2016. President Obama laid out a sweeping vision for our country, and the Republicans replied with ideas as old as George W. Bush, and attacks that were frankly, played out in the fall of 2008.
Poor Marco was so nervous and over-matched that he had to stop for a water break on live national television. Sen. Marco Rubio is not ready for prime time.
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Any candidate who is saddled with the GOP’s terrible ideas is destined to fail.
If this is what the Republican Party has offer, Hillary Clinton should be measuring the drapes in the White House.
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4 Responses to Marco Rubio Bombs in SOTU Rebuttal/2016 Audition
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phooeyrat
Feb. 13th, 2013 at 2:28 pm
The Republican brain-pool appears very shallow; in my opinion. Or is their something I missed?
Shannon
Feb. 13th, 2013 at 2:54 pm
If this is the best that the Republican party can find for their 2016 presidential candidate, they will lose 10 fold more than they did these last 2 elections.
Republicans will never get it. Practicing discrimination in any form is NOT a platform in which to dance on. Should they continue to hate women, gays, immigrants, and anyone not white and male, they will never again win the White House except by cheating (which everyone is on to, so that failed them, too).
mjh
Feb. 14th, 2013 at 4:01 am
I wonder if e e cummings had Marco Rubio in mind?
“next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?”
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
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Nancy Hutton
Feb. 14th, 2013 at 7:45 pm
“If this is what the Republican Party has offer, Hillary Clinton should be measuring the drapes in the White House.” Wouldn’t that be a job for the First Spouse? I think Bill should be measuring the drapes and planning his role as First Gentleman.