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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNew feature: Trump’s ‘Baghdad Bob’ of the week - By Jennifer Rubin
Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn blog for The Post, offering reported opinion from a conservative perspective.-snip-
The examples are so numerous as to defy quantification. But there are some that stand out for their sheer sophistry and unintended hilarity. Not unlike the inadvertently comical Iraq information minister for Saddam Hussein during the initial stages of the Iraq War, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf (fondly named Baghdad Bob) some Republicans will risk mockery for their defense of the indefensible. It seems appropriate that on each Friday before the November election we will pick the Baghdad Bob Republican of the week. As one conservative policy wonk observed, I will never run out of material.
Now, we must exclude figures such as Sean Hannity, Trump surrogates such as Jeffrey Lord and the outlets such as Breitbart that should be inducted into the hall of fame for intellectual corruption. They are without peer in their defense of Trump, incurring no small amount of ridicule and disdain from Republicans and Democrats alike. We will therefore focus on the less obvious Trump spinners.
With that background, the winner this week is Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who once worried about giving Trump the nuclear codes, slammed Hillary Clinton for the Russian reset and deplored the presidents lack of resolve in checking Russian aggression in Europe and meddling in the Middle East. Rubio has made his name as a GOP hawk, human rights advocate and severe critic of Obama administration appeasement of international bullies. However, when asked about Trumps remarks about the possible Russian connection to the hack of DNC computers he replied:
I do not support encouraging the Russians to hack anyone in the United States. When I read those comments (Wednesday) I called the Trump campaign and they made it clear to me that what he said (Wednesday) was not a policy proposal. It was a use of sarcasm to draw attention to this issue of the emails and the fact that there are still thousands, tens of thousands, of missing emails from Hillary Clinton that the American people want to know about.
No, honestly, thats what he said. It was fine because it was not a policy proposal to what? support Russian interference in our elections. Had Trump said this during the primary campaign or had a Democrat made the comment, Rubio would have roared in disapproval. Its a particularly awful response in that he told us he called the Trump campaign to get its excuse. In other words, hes acknowledging he is a mere conduit for Trumps irresponsible, clueless rhetoric about Vladimir Putin, whom Rubios candidate Trump admires and with whom he wants to get along. All we can we say is: SAD!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/07/29/new-feature-trumps-baghdad-bob-of-the-week/
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New feature: Trump’s ‘Baghdad Bob’ of the week - By Jennifer Rubin (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jul 2016
OP
Though a lot of them hate Trump because they view him as too liberal or vulgar, a lot of nevertrump
geek tragedy
Jul 2016
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greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)1. What's happened to Jennifer Rubin?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)6. She's on a rip, Auntie...
She is stupefied by Trump. Half the fun of her columns is in reading the comments from readers.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)7. She was a Marco Rubio fan at first
Then she became Never Trump.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)2. Though a lot of them hate Trump because they view him as too liberal or vulgar, a lot of nevertrump
conservatives are able to see his profound and unacceptable flaws for what they are because they've taken off the blinders.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)3. normally Rubin is Coulter level toxic
but oh well, broken clocks and all that.
charlyvi
(6,537 posts)4. Who is this person and what have they done with Jennifer Rubin?
Old Terp
(464 posts)5. There must be something in the water.
Jennifer Rubin, Michael Gerson, George Will and others can't stand Trump. It amuses me seeing them being rational or something close to that.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)8. They think he is too liberal
Important to realize that most right-wingers who don't like Trump think he is not conservative enough.