02-28-2016, 04:12 AM
What policies? That's like attacking a cloud with your fists.
He says X in one debate and then says Y in the next. When challenged that he said X before, he denies it. He doesn't care about consistency with previous comments or internal consistency in what he says on any particular occasion. For instance, he said it wouldn't be sensible to say that he's pro-Israeli as he wants to be able to broker a deal with the Palestinians and asserting a bias would undermine his ability to do so. The very next thing out of his mouth was that there's no one who is more pro-Israeli than him :
. So which policy position should Rubio attack? He says Planned Parenthood does really good things for women and should be praised. But then he immediately says that Planned Parenthood should be defunded because it does abortions and he's pro-life. So which position should Rubio attack? If he's attacked on anything he's said on the campaign trail, he can honestly claim he said the opposite at some point. The only way for Republican candidates to take him on is to undercut his alpha male status. But you're right that doing so is a kind of mutually-assured destruction. Chris Christie had his best moment when he humiliated Rubio but he didn't gain any benefit from it. At the very next primary, he did poorly and bowed out of the race. He helped Trump and Cruz but not himself.
I'm happy with this, though. I want Rubio to knock the stuffing out of Trump and then leave it to Clinton to finish the job.
He says X in one debate and then says Y in the next. When challenged that he said X before, he denies it. He doesn't care about consistency with previous comments or internal consistency in what he says on any particular occasion. For instance, he said it wouldn't be sensible to say that he's pro-Israeli as he wants to be able to broker a deal with the Palestinians and asserting a bias would undermine his ability to do so. The very next thing out of his mouth was that there's no one who is more pro-Israeli than him :
. So which policy position should Rubio attack? He says Planned Parenthood does really good things for women and should be praised. But then he immediately says that Planned Parenthood should be defunded because it does abortions and he's pro-life. So which position should Rubio attack? If he's attacked on anything he's said on the campaign trail, he can honestly claim he said the opposite at some point. The only way for Republican candidates to take him on is to undercut his alpha male status. But you're right that doing so is a kind of mutually-assured destruction. Chris Christie had his best moment when he humiliated Rubio but he didn't gain any benefit from it. At the very next primary, he did poorly and bowed out of the race. He helped Trump and Cruz but not himself.I'm happy with this, though. I want Rubio to knock the stuffing out of Trump and then leave it to Clinton to finish the job.