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Two creeps (Scar & Frothy). Interesting trick: Frothy manages to be way creepier than the ex-Congressman with the dead intern in his office.
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Maybe he’s hoping a President Rubio (shudder) would give him a job, so he wouldn’t have to go back to producing execrable fundagelical movies nobody wants to see?
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ROFL. Santorum went on the show not expecting the single question anyone could possibly have of him at this moment.
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Santorum: Rubio is a copy of our great christian hero, George W Bush. He is young, clueless and has no belief system. All he needs to do is pick Dick Cheney as his VP choice and our country will be set. We will have tax breaks, wars etc and blame it on traitor democrats.
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Other than remaining upright and breathing what accomplishments have there been?
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Why? BECAUSE HE GOT PAID TO.
Sheesh.
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Not difficult to figure out: the RNC wants to the remainder of the field to coalesce around the Rube. With Frothy’s endorsement, the Rube gets the fundy nutjob vote
EDIT TO ADD: I doubt JEB will be going along with the RNC’s desire. The Bush Crime Family is way too vindictive. But what does JEB care - he doesn’t have much of a political career left anyway.
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Not that he deserves it, or that the question was in the least unfair on an objective level, but these two interviewers are well-known to be in the bag for Trump, especially now that it’s clear their real crush, Christie, is within days of having to give up his campaign. So the worst of that against the interviewee is that he’s unable to state any legislative accomplishment or even initiative by the candidate he’s endorsing, other than one very lame minor one we can’t even judge, either in U.S. Senate or as speaker of the Florida state house, whereas the worst that against the interviewees is that they completely expected and indeed hoped for and worked toward their interview floundering around like a beached carp.
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This brings to mind the time in 1960 when some journalist asked outgoing President Eisenhower an obvious question: “Can you think of a major contribution that Nixon has made to your administration?”
Eisenhower responded, “Well, if you give me a week I might think of one.”
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Scarborough is obviously not a Rubio supporter. He was intentionally trying to put Santorum on the spot and make him look bad for his decision. That’s why I can’t watch Scarborough. He always has his own agenda. His viewers are just along for the ride
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Exactly what I’ve been thinking. This is why the “establishment” wants Rubio over almost any of the others…because he can be easily led around by the nose.
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Sometimes great attack ads just write themselves!!!
I think this line of questioning is what Christie was referring to when he said that Rubio is the bubble boy who never seems to face tough questions from reporters.
And watching the media begin to fawn over him now that he finished third in IA it is clear that if he continues to gain traction, they will continue to treat him the same way…only worse.
If Rubio wins the nomination I can pretty much guarantee you that our local paper’s editorial director will be licking his boots even though the paper is supposedly nominally “moderate”…as least in comparison to its rabidly right-wing cross town competitor. He just LOVES him some centrist cred.
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I agree that Scarborough is in the bag for others, but it was a fair question and one Santorum should’ve been eager and able to answer. He should’ve been given talking points by the Rubio campaign or at least prepared some himself. That leads me to believe either the Rubio camp was so eager to get the endorsement that they did nothing to prepare their surrogate, or that the surrogate already cashed the check and just doesn’t care.
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“Because he’s pretty…it’s all I got.”
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“Jeb Bush ran Florida. Donald Trump built a company. Marco Rubio… Finish the sentence.”
Great quiz question!
Santorum’s answer: “…is a Hispanic fellow so people can’t call us racist, and isn’t Ted Cruz who we all hate. He’s accomplished a lot, demographically speaking.”
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Look, Santorum is obviously endorsing Rubio because he finds Trump and Cruz unacceptable. It’s easy to understand his distaste for Trump; his rejection of Cruz is less obvious. Cruz is a consistently hard-line conservative, much as Santorum has been, so why not go with Cruz? I don’t think it’s about money–I don’t think Rubio’s campaign has that kind of money and I don’t really see that kind of a transaction here. I can only surmise that Santorum finds Cruz as loathsome as most of the establishment Republican politicians do. In addition, as unpleasant as Santorum can be, he does appear to have some amount of empathy for the poor. If that’s a factor in his choice here, one can see how he would find Rubio more sympatico than Cruz.
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“It’s a bogus argument,” Santorum added.
Wow. Santorum really worked himself up into a lather, there! A froth, you might even say.
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Can he make good shrimp tacos?