So far Rubio has had strong but careful debates, but at the Boulder, Colorado venue sponsored by CNBC he upped his game. It’s still a farce. “Either do your job, Sen”.
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Of course, the job of appointing a replacement for Rubio should he actually resign would fall to Rick Scott.
It’s a valid attack. Rubio did the worst thing possible to Jeb.
“Here’s the truth. I didn’t inherit any money”, Rubio said, before explaining how his parents didn’t save enough money to send him to school and how he and his wife have had to work to provide for their four children. “I mean, literally, the Senate”.
When pressed, Rubio staggered a bit, beginning his answer with a weird attempt to distance himself from the Washington establishment (to which, as a senator, he undeniably belongs).
It was a belittling response and appeared to establish Rubio’s dominance over Bush. ‘Why don’t you wait in line.’ Wait for what? He called for a constitutional amendment requiring balanced federal budgets, a awful idea deeply at odds with mainstream economics, and he, too, favors cutting taxes at a time when the government faces huge new financial liabilities as the country ages.
My great concern is that we are on the verge, perhaps, of picking someone who can not do this job. Afterward, he went on the defensive-effectively. I am running for president. “My dad was a bartender, my mother was a maid and they worked hard to provide us with a chance for a better life”, Rubio said. “You know how many votes John McCain missed when he was carrying out that furious comeback that you’re now modeling after?”
REUTERS/Rick WilkingProminent conservative talk show host Erick Erickson told Business Insider that Bush’s attack on Rubio’s voting record was also unsuccessful because of the way Bush’s team telegraphed it would happen.
His fellow Floridian, saddled by his family name and falling poll numbers, saw an opening.
White House hopeful Jeb Bush mustered the ultimate American put-down as he clashed with a former ally at Wednesday’s Republican debate: he accused him of putting in a French work week.
And it is unconscionable that when it comes to intelligence matters, including briefings on the Iran nuclear deal, you said, “we have a staffer that’s assigned to intelligence who gets constant briefings”.
“Marco Rubio should resign, not rip us off”, says the editorial’s headline.
And as he did though much of the debate, Rubio led the attack, joined by Cruz and Trump.
But he didn’t. Instead, Rubio tried to stay above the fray.
Rubio: “I don’t ever remember you complaining about John McCain’s vote record”. That’s a big part of the reason he’s running for President, and has sworn he won’t backtrack and run for re-election.
Kasich’s problem – and Bush’s – is Rubio. And you should be showing up to work.
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The highly-produced video goes after Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, portraying her as a “third-term Obama”, with ominous music playing in the background.
