CNN Absurdly Asks If Rubio's Sip of Water Was 'Career-Ender'

[badrose]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2013/02/13/cnn-absurdly-asks-if-rubios-sip-water-was-career-ender

[BigBlueBrock]

It was really awkward (and funny). But it wasn't career-ending.

[CitizenBBN]

If it is, democracy is officially a failure and this country is toast unless a benevolent despotism manages to work.

This is why we get stuffed suit two dimensional brainless political leaders. If they dare do anything a normal person does or say anything offhand a normal person would they are toast, and we wonder why they arent' more like us normal people or don't have real world experience? They can't afford real world experience. If they make one decision that could be possibly distorted into a sound bite that is totally untrue but sounds right they don't win. So you get really good at keeping your tie straight and sound passionate while saying nothing.

[dan_bgblue]

I prefer my politicians to pass gas in public, point at someone else and say EEEWWWWEEE, and blow their noses in front of the cameras. I am not kidding either

[dan_bgblue]

unless a benevolent despotism manages to work.

You have one in mind that successfully survived more than a generation or two?

[BigBlueBrock]

If it is, democracy is officially a failure

This country was never a democracy to begin with.

[CatinIL]

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I think this shows that they're nervous about his popularity.

[BigBlueBrock]

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I think this shows that they're nervous about his popularity.

They shouldn't be. As long as he's peddling the same GOP message from the past two election cycles, he won't be POTUS.

[CatinIL]

But I don't think he is. I think he's smarter than perhaps you think he is.

[BigBlueBrock]

Oh I'm sure he's very intelligent. Mitt Romney was no neanderthal, but the GOP position (especially during the primary) ruined him, as it will ruin Rubio. If he and/or the GOP don't drop the positions that are slowly trending toward unfavorable, whomever they put up in 2016 won't win.

[TheBluesZZZ]

Down here in the country we have a term for folks like the CNN bunch. We call them dumber than "a coal bucket".......The BlueZZZ

[KeithKSR]

Oh I'm sure he's very intelligent. Mitt Romney was no neanderthal, but the GOP position (especially during the primary) ruined him, as it will ruin Rubio. If he and/or the GOP don't drop the positions that are slowly trending toward unfavorable, whomever they put up in 2016 won't win.

I think the opposite is actually true. The extremist, Obama, did not even get favorable marks from Dems in his recent State of the Union address. Meanwhile, all the left wing media found to knock Rubio on was getting a drink of water.

[bigsky]

I prefer my politicians to pass gas in public, point at someone else and say EEEWWWWEEE, and blow their noses in front of the cameras. I am not kidding either

You got one

[BigBlueBrock]

I think the opposite is actually true. The extremist, Obama, did not even get favorable marks from Dems in his recent State of the Union address. Meanwhile, all the left wing media found to knock Rubio on was getting a drink of water.

The post-SOTU polling I've seen shows an overall positive reaction to the speech for those that watched it (53% very positive from a mostly Democratic polling audience) and no effect on his overall approval rating (still 50-52% approval rating). The GOP's campaign policies of the last two elections will not win the Whitehouse in 2016. The Baby Boomer generation can no longer be relied upon to deliver national elections to the GOP (as many Republican pundits finally admitted after last November).

The youth vote broke for Obama 60-37%, basically deciding the election in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida (if Romney had gotten 50% of the youth vote in those states, he'd be POTUS right now). If the past couple of elections are any indication, the youth vote will continue to grow, and the Baby Boomer vote will continue to shrink (because they're, well, dying off). If the GOP doesn't reverse field on social issues and immigration - at the very least - they will lose the youth vote, and almost certainly the Presidential election, again in 2016.

[KeithKSR]

The post-SOTU polling I've seen shows an overall positive reaction to the speech for those that watched it (53% very positive from a mostly Democratic polling audience) and no effect on his overall approval rating (still 50-52% approval rating). The GOP's campaign policies of the last two elections will not win the Whitehouse in 2016. The Baby Boomer generation can no longer be relied upon to deliver national elections to the GOP (as many Republican pundits finally admitted after last November).

The youth vote broke for Obama 60-37%, basically deciding the election in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida (if Romney had gotten 50% of the youth vote in those states, he'd be POTUS right now). If the past couple of elections are any indication, the youth vote will continue to grow, and the Baby Boomer vote will continue to shrink (because they're, well, dying off). If the GOP doesn't reverse field on social issues and immigration - at the very least - they will lose the youth vote, and almost certainly the Presidential election, again in 2016.

The poll I am talking about took place as the President gave the speech, and gauged reactions of the respondents. Everything was under 50%, a lot was well under 50% even for registered dems. The problem with post-SOTU polls is that some people will respond who did not watch the address.

Obama is given carte blanche by the media. Any entity who doesn't agree with him receives endless attacks. Obama's margin of victory boiled down to around 350K votes in battleground states.

[jazyd]

They are nervous and are beginning the process of helping the democrat party destroy him, it's what they are best at

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I think this shows that they're nervous about his popularity.[/QUOTE]

[dan_bgblue]

They are nervous and are beginning the process of helping the democrat party destroy him, it's what they are best at

Well, they and their like minded media moguls built him. It is only fitting that they tear him down.:winking0011:

[CitizenBBN]

I prefer my politicians to pass gas in public, point at someone else and say EEEWWWWEEE, and blow their noses in front of the cameras. I am not kidding either

Obama does it in a virtual, policy oriented way. Passes some stupid thing that doesn't work, expresses outrage and blames Bush.

[BigBlueBrock]

The poll I am talking about took place as the President gave the speech, and gauged reactions of the respondents. Everything was under 50%, a lot was well under 50% even for registered dems. The problem with post-SOTU polls is that some people will respond who did not watch the address.

Obama is given carte blanche by the media. Any entity who doesn't agree with him receives endless attacks. Obama's margin of victory boiled down to around 350K votes in battleground states.

The post-SOTU poll I looked at (and the only instant one I can find) was the CNN/ORC International. Rasmussen and Gallup did post-SOTU approval ratings. I've seen a "Bing Pulse" poll (http://dashburst.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/bing-state-of-the-union.jpg) that measured real-time reaction to the SOTU, which showed an overall positive reaction by Democrats.

I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just interested in where you saw real-time reactions that had Democrats with an overall negative opinion of what Obama was saying.

[BigBlueBrock]

They are nervous and are beginning the process of helping the democrat party destroy him, it's what they are best at

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I think this shows that they're nervous about his popularity.[/QUOTE]

"Nervous about his popularity"? Among what demographic? I imagine few "regular" voters outside of Florida could pull Rubio out of a lineup.

[TheBluesZZZ]

Not to worry BigBlueBrock, there may NEVER be another Republican President. Welfare folks,feminists who believe in abortion, atheists, Gays, Blacks, illegal immigrants,secular humanists,left wing nuts in Hollywood, unemployed workers on food stamps and Socialists will guarantee the liberal Democrats stay in power till hell freezes over. There are not enough regular working folks to outnumber the send-me -a -check folks who are almost all Democrats. The truth is right on........TheBlueZZZ