Correcting Marco Rubio’s final campaign lie: He wants you to think he ran a high-minded race — don’t

[Liberal_in_LA]

Correcting Marco Rubio’s final campaign lie: He wants you to think he ran a high-minded race — don’t fall for it
To declare that the current president “appeases” the nation’s enemies while “betraying” its allies and “weakening” its military is to level a pretty serious charge. But it is somewhat mild by the standards of the 2016 campaign, I’ll admit. It certainly doesn’t approach this kind of divisive, de-legitimizing rhetoric:

It’s now abundantly clear: Barack Obama has deliberately weakened America. He has made an intentional effort to humble us back to size. As if to say: We no longer need to be so powerful because our power has done more harm than good. Happiest of all have been America’s enemies. Because when America steps back, it gives darker forces the space they need to rise. And rise they have.

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Even more outrageously, Rubio — not Trump — is the one who responded to President Obama’s delivering an utterly banal speech in a mosque with anger and resentment. Trump made a predictably sleazy joke about Obama being “comfortable” in a mosque; but Rubio didn’t even try to leaven his poison with humor. Instead, he grumbled about Obama “pitting people against each other.” And besides, he added, “radical Islam” was the “bigger issue,” anyway.

So what would a more honest reckoning of Rubio’s campaign sound like? Well, it wouldn’t be pretty. Rather than foundering because he stubbornly chose to appeal exclusively to Republican voters’ better angels, the Rubio campaign failed because he simply wasn’t very good at gutter politics. His attempts to get nasty boomeranged, then blew up in his face.

He didn’t choose “a different path,” in other words. He got right down in the sewer with the rest of ‘em. The only real difference is that, for Rubio, scraping the bottom of the barrel simply didn’t work.


http://www.salon.com/2016/03/16/correcting_marco_rubios_final_campaign_lie_he_wants_you_to_think_he_ran_a_high_minded_race_dont_fall_for_it/

[Kalidurga]

1. Rubio is a Republican of course he didn't run a high-minded race...

But that time he sounded like the only grown up in the room was shocking. It was shocking because well he was just doing that for the moment five minutes earlier he was making hand size jokes.