Big RR, in a perfect world, I would have preferred a nomination fight built around experience, knowledge, and policy ideas...Big RR wrote:jIm--you really enjoyed the debate last night? I only watched a few minutes, but it seemed to me that the moderators were giving Trump carte blanche to do what he wanted, and it turned into Jerry Springer. Pretty sad IMHO.
But in that world, Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Lindsey Graham would have been standing in the three center positions last night...
In this nominating cycle, those qualities are pretty much seen as negatives...
So at this point, the question for me becomes, "What is the best way to stop Donald Trump?"
Because stopping Trump, by any means possible, is Priority One....
If I thought that the best way to accomplish this was for one of the other candidates to walk out on the stage and hit Trump in the face with a cream pie and squirt seltzer down his pants, I'd be all for it...
And Rubio is now essentially doing that, and he's doing it effectively...
Not just last night, where thanks to Marco, the bully was the one who finally got the wedgie...
But also today, in speeches in Dallas and Oklahoma City, (where Rubio drew much bigger crowds than he has before; speeches that were covered live on all three cable news channels) "The Rubio-bot" has become "Marco Unplugged"...
And he seems very easy and comfortable in this new role...exposing the "Con artist who says he's for the little guy but has made his whole career screwing over the little guy"...
And brilliantly ridiculing and diminishing Trump by mocking his tweets and counter attacks...
He is very effectively using Trump's techniques against him....
(Hell, after listening to what Rubio said today, I'd have thought I was writing his lines...)
I'm going to start a thread that goes into more detail about this tomorrow, but so long as Marco keeps this up, there may still be a chance to bring down the naked emperor...
) ...he's certainly earned a merit badge for his new way of dealing with Donald Trump...
