Quote:Maybe he should speak from the heart rather than repeating rehearsed talking points provided by his advisers and special interests to prevent this from happening again.

 

I actually think that you touched on the crux of the debate issue.  

 

Rubio, nor anyone in the debate hall, would have expected him to be attacked from the intellectual direction that Christie and to some Degree Bush came at him from.  

 

On the issue of Obama, Rubio simply stated that Barrack Obama's ideology is in and of itself flawed and based on a view of America that is antithetical to both our founding and the principles that have lead us to prosperity.  Among the republican electorate this is pretty much common sense or common knowledge.  It was then asserted by Chris Christie that oh no, its not his ideology or his policy prescriptions that have lead us into this mess, its the fact that he didn't run a state.  So with a longer resume Obamacare would have been a good idea?  With two terms running a state into the ground the VA wouldn't have waiting lines?  It's not only nonsense, its nonsense that you would expect from a Democratic candidate.  

 

Why does Christie have to make this kind of argument?  Because if we were talking about a determined ideologue instead of someone who is just inexperienced then he would have more explaining to do for sucking up to his administration and essentially handing him the election in 2012.

 

As for the Gang of 8 bill, Marco Rubio is in third not 1st place due in large part to that policy decision.  Had he never embarked on that piece of legislation there is a real chance that he would have been the presumptive front runner seen as more reasonable than cruz and more renegade than Bush and that could have precluded a trump candidacy.  

 

No one, to my knowledge, has ever criticized Marco Rubio for not fighting harder to grant citizenship without border security.  What's Christie's functional position from that exchange?  "Hey folks, when you're a governor getting up shoveling snow and getting schools open it teaches you how to fight for Chuck Schumer's values no matter what the American people or the leadership in your own house of representatives says?"  I don't recall seeing that on anyone's bumper sticker.  

 

If someone is yelling at the top of their lungs that 2 plus 2 is 5 it makes sense that you would just repeat that the number 4 calmly while they make fools of themselves.  

 

And Rubio's not at the top of my list, i just know B.S. when i see it.  

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