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Related: About this forumThe Cruzification of Marco Rubio
By Michelle Cottle December 13th 2013 5:45 AMThe junior senators blatant pandering in bashing the budget deal shows the shameless lengths he will go to get back into the GOP bases good graces.
Lets give it up for Marco Rubio! After months of getting his butt whipped in the rabid-obstructionism department by Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Florida emerged the hands-down winner in the race to trash the Murray-Ryan budget deal. The entire political chattering class expressed awe this week at just how quickly Rubios team pushed out his this deal sucks statement. It was as though some poor staffer had been assigned to sit around 24-7 with his finger hovering over the send button, just waiting for the deal to drop.
Not that Rubios victory was one merely of speed. He lapped the field on intensity as well, pursuing an impressively aggressive schedule of media denunciations: Huckabee, Hannity, Megyn Kellyeven a full-on column on Breitbart.com, warning of how the deal was further threatening the American Dream. No way anyone can mistake where Rubio stands on this issue. He is 100 percent opposed to derailing the American Dream by allowing sequestration to be tinkered with.
Now, some might find Rubios current attachment to sequestration a bit rich, seeing that he opposed it a couple of years back. And not just kinda, sorta opposed it. Two years ago this week, Rubio was among the handful of Republican senators decrying the damage that such arbitrary fiscal arithmetic would have on our national defense and vowing to find a smarter alternative. Small wonder that Commentarys Pete Wehner felt moved to marvel this week, in a column titled Marco Rubio and the Perils of Opportunism: Now hes criticizing a budget deal that would increase spending on defense while also slightly cutting the deficit, arguing that we shouldnt give up the sequestration deal that he initially opposed. And hes the one complaining about a lack of long-term thinking.
This is not to suggest that Wehneror anyone else for that matteris remotely puzzled by Rubios behavior. As Wehner goes on to observe: Senator Rubio strikes me as a person not only highly attuned to criticisms of him from the base, but overly reactive to them, adjusting and responding moment by moment. One senses that believing he badly hurt himself with the base because of his stand on immigration, hes now scrambling to ingratiate himself with it. It isnt a particularly impressive thing to watch.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/13/the-desperation-of-marco-rubio.html
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The Cruzification of Marco Rubio (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2013
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That's fine with me. Rubio and Ryan going head to head divides the GOP voting base. Both are seen as
okaawhatever
Dec 2013
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okaawhatever
(9,478 posts)1. That's fine with me. Rubio and Ryan going head to head divides the GOP voting base. Both are seen as
future Presidential candidates, the more bad press the better. I saw a headline earlier this week that said that Ryan's budget dealings would make him a viable candidate for 2016. Anything that helps America know the truth about him helps all of us. If Rubio has to get extra radical and neo-con to accomplish it, so be it.