Video: Rubio mocks Trump’s stupid tweets, wonders if he wet his pants last night

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Dave Weigel sums up the new contrast in styles:

    Trump attacks, recapped:

    Cruz: He doesn't understand the Constitution

    Rubio: I made that old man piss himself

    — daveweigel (@daveweigel) February 26, 2016

I could sit here and tell you that none of this will matter (much) to Tuesday’s results but I’ve already been scolded on Twitter this morning by righties for being inappropriately eeyorish. I can understand that. It’s one thing to doom-say after the bloodbath in Nevada, when every conservative in America is ready to drink Windex, it’s another to do it the morning after a debate in which Trump finally got punched in the face and there’s suddenly new hope that he’s not a sure thing after all. So I’ll be as optimistic as I can here: Obviously this strategy, of diminishing Trump as a clown by clowning on him relentlessly, is worth trying. As Weigel says, Cruz went all-in at the start of January on the idea that if Trump could be exposed as a phony conservative, that would finish him off among tea partiers and evangelicals. In Cruz’s defense, he really had no choice; “I’m the most conservative” has been his game plan since he joined the Senate and he was true to it to the bitter end. But we are, I fear, near the end for him now that Trump’s beaten him among his core voters and looks set to do it again next week. You’re just not going to win by RINOizing him. Trump doesn’t care about the Constitution? His supporters couldn’t care less. If anything, they’ll be openly hostile to constitutional procedure if Trump gets elected and finds himself hobbled by obstruction in Congress. Why would an authoritarian who loves Trump want him to respect the authority of the Constitution?

So here’s Rubio ditching Cruz’s approach and trying a new one-two punch: Trump is a con artist who exploits the little guy, whatever he may say on the stump, and also he’s a giant douche. Anti-Trumpers are in raptures on Twitter over this clip, watching Rubio take it to the bully with pure gleeful scorn, and I’m not immune to it. It’s pure catharsis after a month of setbacks, a surprise rout by an army that’s been in what feels like perpetual retreat. (It’s surprisingly funny in parts too. “How do you bankrupt a casino?” made me laugh.) And Rubio’s right about Trump’s bizarre string of misspelled tweets this morning. They may not teach spelling at Trump University but I’m pretty sure it’s a prerequisite at Wharton. This is petty, silly stuff but pettiness is the currency of this primary, as Trump’s last thousand goofs on Rubio for sweating too much should have told you. If you like, we can sit here and spitball the strategic virtues of the “mock Trump” strategy all day long — it shows Rubio’s not a beta male who’s afraid of Trump; it punctures Trump’s 10-foot-tall mystique by making him look ridiculous; it places Trump on

[GAJohnnie]

Total wishful thinking

End results last night

Trump:

No knock out blows, no gaffes which leaves the rest still in Trumps rear view mirror

Rubio:

Great talker and smooth which will make the GOP ladies swoon but no there there. A human parrot repeating what he was taught to say. Take him off script and he fails badly.

For example: After going on the attack in this excited high pitched tone about Trump supposedly lacking specifics in his Health Care plan Rubio ends his tirade sneering “erasing lines around states what does that even mean?”

Trump then calmly respond by schooling young Rubio on how competition in health insurance would work. I guess we can understand why Rubio would be confused: we haven’t had real competition in the US Healthcare Insurance system for almost as long as Rubio has been alive. While Trump is making a clear concise case for his plan, Rubio interrupts with “Yes I know all that it is in my plan”

Those kind of exchanges may make political reporter all excited but it leave average voters going Huh? 30 seconds ago you did not know what it meant NOW it is “part of your plan”?

“Ruibot” earned his unflattering tag again last night. Great as long as he is not forced off script. Once he is forced off script he looks flustered and uncertain. Of the many things voters look for in a President, flustered and uncertain are not two of them.

Cruz.

It is over. Cannot campaign with soaring rhetoric and high minded “perfect political purity” talking points only to have the real record be less then perfect. Warp yourself in “holy” political pure white robes, as Cruz has done, and the political dirt of errors shows up darker and more noticeable. Cruz spent all night walking face 1st into the other candidates, specifically Trumps, punches.

Biggest knock down punches. After telling everyone he was the best qualified to pick SC Justices, Trump points out Cruz’s support for John Roberts, who GOP voters feel should of ended the debate on Obamacare and Gay Marriage and did not.

Then Cruz lectures Trump about campaign contributions only to have Trump point out he gave money to Cruz. Three point shot for Trump since it points out Cruz is woefully unprepared, paints Cruz as a hypocrite and it exposes Cruz as a professional political insider playing this race as a pretend “outsider”.

So at best Rubio/Cruz can claim is a stalemate which is a lose since they are the ones in Trumps rear view mirror

[kevindavis007]

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[Frank Cannon]

Total wishful thinking

End results last night

Trump:

No knock out blows, no gaffes which leaves the rest still in Trumps rear view mirror....

Looks like a whole lot of wishful thinking on your part. Trump is so pathetic that the 3rd place guy was kicking the crap out of him with Trump openly falling apart like one of his cheap suits he refuses to wear. It was a total embarrassment and shows us how hot mess like Hitlary will totally destroy this thin skinned lying loser.

[kevindavis007]

Looks like a whole lot of wishful thinking on your part. Trump is so pathetic that the 3rd place guy was kicking the crap out of him with Trump openly falling apart like one of his cheap suits he refuses to wear. It was a total embarrassment and shows us how hot mess like Hitlary will totally destroy this thin skinned lying loser.

Exactly.. Also I don't like the concept of having a candidate in court over a fraud university during the whole election cycle.. But that is just me..