Sound Bite Reaction (Rubio Announcement Edition)
Steven L. Taylor
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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“Yesterday is over”-Senator Marco Rubio, in announcing his bid for the presidency.
So, does that mean that we are going to stop a Cuba policy firmly grounded in the Cold War (which was over roughly 8800 yesterdays ago?).
Just wonderin’.
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Man, Rubio is going to need this for the next few years. If I wasn’t so afraid he was a next-generation psychopath, he’d be my favorite comedian.
First, I can’t believe no one on his staff told him the recent history and associations of the phrase “new American Century”. Or is he as much in a bubble as Romney apparently was?
Then Rubio, after a list of complaints, asks
Why does no one see the obvious answer, that a generation ago we started electing Republicans to national office in larger numbers, and those Republicans became more and more conservative.
“Tautology is tautological.”