On FOX “news” today Marco Rubio stepped in the same dung pile that Jeb Bush has been trying to get out of for a week. Now I have never thought that Rubio was the sharpest knife in the kitchen but apparently his learning curve is very long indeed. Josh Marshall is a bit more polite although now that I think about it maybe not:
another is the fact that Marco Rubio just doesn’t seem like the most cognitively dexterous contender for the Republican nomination.
Not even FOX host Chris Wallace would give him a break.
Rpublican presidential candidate Marco Rubio struggled on Sunday to answer a question from Fox News about whether President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq had been a mistake.
On Sunday’s edition of Fox & Friends, host Chris Wallace noted that likely GOP candidate Jeb Bush had spent much of the week trying to recover after he told Fox News host Megyn Kelly that that he “would have” invaded Iraq knowing that the country did not have weapons of mass destruction. He later insisted that he misheard the question. After evolving his answer over several days, the possible candidate eventually relented, saying, “I would not have gone into Iraq.”
But Rubio seemingly missed the lesson Jeb had learned after a week of damage control.
“It was not a mistake,” Rubio told Wallace.
Wallace reminded the candidate, however, that the question was “based on what we know now.”
As the Republicans attempt to capitalize on Hillary Clinton’s baggage ( and she has plenty of it) they can seem to deal with their own baggage – the disastrous presidency of George W Bush and the Iraq war. When Wallace tried to give him an out he only doubled down.
“But that’s the question I’m asking you,” Wallace explained. “Was it a mistake to go into Iraq?”
“It was not a mistake for the president to decide to go into Iraq because at the time he was told…” Rubio said before being interrupted.
“I’m not asking you that,” Wallace reminded him.
“The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein is not there,” the Florida Republican argued. “But I don’t understand the question you’re asking… A president cannot make a decision knowing what someone might know in the future.”
“That’s what I’m asking you,” Wallace tried again. “Was it a mistake.”
According to Rubio, President George W. Bush “wasn’t dealing with a Nobel Peace Prize winner, he was dealing with Saddam Hussein. And he made the right decision based on the information he had at that time.”
Rubio continues to prove every day that he is nothing but a not very bright petulant child who can only recite extreme right talking points. Polling in Florida indicates that he could not win reelection to his Senate seat in 20 16.