tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3826979584288270811..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: MARCO RUBIO'S CURIOUS RUN OF LUCK IN THE DEBATES (updated)Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-13128252001004432922015-11-12T13:31:50.747-05:002015-11-12T13:31:50.747-05:00I think he launched it during the debate, only nob...I think he launched it during the debate, only nobody noticed: he stayed out of the early discussion on immigration--Kasich, Trump, Bush, while Baker kept struggling to move on to his Rubio question, on automation and jobs.<br /><br />Rubio didn't answer that question, but instead produced some boilerplate about repealing Obamacare and reforming education.<br /><br />Then Baker turned to Cruz and asked him about entitlement reforms, and Cruz complained that Baker had misrepresented his position, although he hadn't, and then Cruz went on to say:<br /><br /><i>I want to go back to the discussion we had a minute ago because, you know, what was said was right. The democrats are laughing — because if republicans join democrats as the party of amnesty, we will lose.</i><br /><br />Only that wasn't "what was said" before Rubio's turn; it was a carefully prepared soundbite line, using language anticipating what he used in his semi-explicit Wednesday attack on Rubio, and timed specifically to follow Rubio's apparent avoidance of the immigration issue.Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-12732252492801487282015-11-12T13:19:17.767-05:002015-11-12T13:19:17.767-05:00If - BIG IF - Cruz did 'agree' to that, or...If - BIG IF - Cruz did 'agree' to that, or restrained himself of his own volition - I should think that what you're driving at is that Cruz is ambivalent on the trivial matter of who from this Clown Car race gets to face off against, lose to, HRC, and rather more concerned about his surest path into the White House. <br /><br />It would not surprise me in the least that Cruz would figure his chances in a general election would improve significantly if (a) he were the undisputed It's His Turn guy, which is certainly not the case this cycle but might well be the case in 4 or 8 years 0 - Cruz is, after all, a mere 45 years old right now, (b) if the state of the economy was to be more easily portrayed as a failure than now, especially where the memory of Dubya and what things were like when he left so fresh it's still oozing blood & viscera, and it would be far easier to tie that state to the incumbent Democrat, and (c) when the electorate is far more likely to have got that whole 'first woman POTUS - glass ceiling' image out of its hopes & set of expectations.<br /><br />Seems to me a truly smart GOPer would figure all that out despite spending so much of his waking hours in the reactionary bubble.Feud Turgidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05379322096770703017noreply@blogger.com