Mediaite.com:
The single-most buzzed-about moment from Saturday night’s Republican presidential debate was Marco Rubio‘s repetition of a line about Barack Obama that he continued using even after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie busted him on it. On Sunday morning, Rubio returned to the scene of the crime, ABC News, and This Week host George Stephanopoulos led off the interview by asking Rubio “What went wrong” to make Rubio go back to that rehearsed phrase so many times.
Rubio took an interesting tack with Stephanopoulos, defending his repetition of the talking point by repeating it three more times:
GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Democrats are circulating that video from last night, Senator Marco Rubio joins us live right now. What went wrong?
RUBIO: Well, actually, I would pay them to keep running that clip because that’s what I believe passionately. It’s one of the reasons why I’m not running for reelection to the Senate and I’m running for president. This notion and this idea that somehow, oh, this is an accident — ObamaCare was not an accident. Dodd-Frank was not an accident. The deal with Iran was not an accident —
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you’re getting pounded for repeating that speech.
RUBIO: Well, look, we raised more money last night in the first hour that debate than any other debate. As far as that message, I hope they keep running it and I’m going to keep saying because it’s true. Barack Obama — yes, has he hired incompetent people to implement laws and run agencies? Absolutely. But when it comes to the — what he’s trying to do to America, it’s part of a plan. He has said he wanted to change the country; he’s doing it in a way that is robbing us of everything that makes us special. I’m going to keep saying that because that not only is it the truth, it is at the core of our —
Rubio's a lot of things, but stupid is not one of them. I think he knows exactly what he's doing by going after Barry with the same lines, however scripted they might be. Will it pay off in the end? Only time will tell. But to compare him to Dan Quayle like some noted commentators are doing, is just going overboard especially when considering that he's one of the 3 Republicans left in the race with a real chance--so he must be doing something right.
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