“I don’t think it impacted voters, but I do think it impacted media coverage.”
Yeah, if only they allowed the voters to vote instead of just the media…
This is like noting that they were running a little low on premium gin in the first-class lounge of the Titanic.
No buddy…you just weren’t racist, vile, aggressive, misogynistic, misinformed, angry, violent, and stupid enough for your party to actually vote for you. Some of us might wear that as a badge of pride, but yea it’s a failing to your side, I get that and you have my condolences.
Every single Republican candidate this year was fatally flawed and incompetent. Trump was simply the least incompetent of the bunch. As it happens, essentially every single national Republican has fatal flaws and is incompetent, so I’m not sure who could have beaten Trump this year. Really, name one single national Republican with any sort of name recognition without fatal flaws and is not incompetent. Scott? Brownback? Brewer? Hah!
I disagree. Trump was the most incompetent and the most flawed – which is exactly why the GOP base found him so appealing.
I disagree. Yes, he is fatally flawed, but he is extremely skilled at manipulating the media. Extremely. Incompetent at business dealings, which we will hear about over the summer. But when it comes to playing the media like a fiddle, Trump is hardly incompetent.
“Her?! Screw her, I didn’t really want to take her to the prom anyway.”
@estamm Huntsman? Pawlenty? I don’t care for them, mind you, but they might represent what’s left of sanity in party.
Marco who?
Seems like a very long time ago, doesn’t it?
I’d feel the tiniest twinge of empathy for him, except he’s surely lining up behind “the nominee of our party” like every other jerk-off in the GOP, so I’m gonna save it.
Right, and so far they’ve been smart enough to stay very quiet and miles away from the current GOP clusterf**k!
Exactly what I was thinking - that statement makes no sense whatsoever. It didn’t impact the voters but the media’s coverage of it affected the outcome…which was due to how people VOTED you pleasant looking idiot.
And HE is supposed to be the Republican savior? God help us all.
Marco the Ingenue.
…with ferengi ears.
The robot part wasn’t a campaign mistake, it was a glimpse into the essence of the candidate. Rubio is made of paper and has strings rising up from every limb.
we? us? when does Boobio think he got permission to use the royal we and could he think that might also be part of ‘our’ problem?
if there is a next time the programmers need to write better code…
I see you point, and yes he is an expert self-promoter, probably the most gifted of his generation in fact.
But calling this “competence” is rather like calling Bernie Madoff “competent” - yes, at conning rich people into throwing their money away on a scam - but totally incompetent at his actual putative job, investing for profit.*
Trump is not running to be “self-promoter in chief”. If that was the job, yes he would be gr-r-r-eat, y-u-u-ge in fact.
*Or perhaps a more exact comparison: someone who interviews well, and thus can get hired easily, but is actually incapable of doing what he is hired to do cannot be, and would never be, referred to as “competent”.
Rubio made himself vulnerable to being called a “robot” because he programmed himself to repeat a line of incoherent gibberish slander concerning President Obama. In Rubio’s defense, that has been the Republicans’ only trick for the past eight years–until Trump boldly started calling Mexicans and Bill Clinton rapists.