Marco Rubio Did Not ‘Flip-Flop’ On Decision to Invade Iraq
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has just finished putting on a spectacular week-long display of stepping on his own dick after setting fire to it, then setting fire to it again and stepping on it some more, over the question of whether the United States should have invaded Iraq in 2003, knowing what we know now. That grand sacrifice set up a new hypothetical for Republican candidates to answer: knowing how badly Jeb Bush got beat up over this, would you ever give an answer to that question that didn’t consist entirely of the word “no?”
For one candidate, that question was literally a no-brainer. On this week’s Fox News Sunday, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) put on a one-man SNL sketch when anchor Chris Wallace put out that same question to him, managing to sneak the phrase “It was not a mistake” into the discussion six times in three minutes…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
3 responses to Marco Rubio Did Not ‘Flip-Flop’ On Decision to Invade Iraq
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arc99 May 18th, 2015 at 20:54
The majority of Democrats on Capitol Hill in 2002 realized invading Iraq would be a mistake and voted accordingly.
Congress and the rest of the nation should have listened to the majority of the Democratic caucus in Congress.
Iraq was a mistake. With a handful of exceptions, only Democrats understood that. Liberals were right, and I will keep saying it until right wingers demonstrate some marginal degree of integrity and admit how wrong they were.
But over a decade after the horrible decision to go to war, the occupants of the GOP Clown Car still cannot bring themselves to admit the truth, e.g. they are responsible for the most monumental f*ck up in the history of our country. I think it shows just how effective the right wing BS machine is, as well as how clueless their low information voter base is.
The conservative legacy is 9/11/2001 combined with a pointless, deadly $1trillion war which has reduced Syria and Iraq to near-chaos, giving rise to ISIS. Yet they still insist that only conservatives can properly manage American foreign policy and there is no shortage of people who still believe them. That is what scares me most of all. The hardcore TeaParty partisans have learned nothing. As long as a politician makes it clear how much he or she hates the President, no other qualification is necessary.
Don’t know how any sentient 2-legged being could possibly still be gullible enough to believe conservatives are the better choice on foreign policy/national security issues, But then we are talking about birthers, the Jade Helmers, and the people anticipating blue helmeted UN storm troopers kicking down their front door to confiscate their precious guns.
robert May 18th, 2015 at 23:37
its not a problem when chris has to ask the same question 3 times
its marco’s constitutional right not to understand the question
TiredOldGuy May 19th, 2015 at 07:04
Marco didn’t flip-flop, he fell right on his effin’ face.