On the perception of “Robotic Candidates”
With the most recent debate, Christie has attempted to skewer Rubio saying he has the same 25 second speech, and that all he does is repeat the same speech. And the media has pounced on it. While it is true that Rubio and many other candidates do repeat themselves, unlike the other candidates Rubio does not deliver his speeches in the same cadence or order. Take Carly Fiorina for example–she delivers every answer in the same tone of voice, if she doesn’t have an answer for the question she goes back to one of her set talking points, and most of all as she repeats her answers her eyes move back and forth like she is reading a cue sheet. Carly is the epitome of the robotic candidate movement. But no one is calling Carly out because she is a nobody in this race unlike Marco.
In addition, when you are asked the same question a 100 times, of course you are going to produce the same answer because you want to hold to your convictions and not be a flip-flopper. Do you know why Ted Cruz and Donald Trump never repeat the same answer? Because depending on the day, they believe or espouse a different ideal and tout a contradictory position from the day before. Or if you are Trump you would rather just insult everyone and everything. But once again, Marco is the most dangerous candidate, and everybody wants to be in denial about Ted Cruz’s flip-flopping.
If these candidates were smart, they would focus their energy on the issues at hand rather than turning on themselves because one is more successful than the rest. They would attack the Democrats, point out their flaws and tell the people why they would be the best candidate to fix it. But because that means their flaws would also be exposed in the process, from Christie’s lackluster governor performance to Jeb’s wanting a Bush dynasty, they decide it is better to attack Rubio because it deflects off them.
Marco is the only candidate who consistently keeps to the issues, doesn’t attack his fellow candidates, and has the best record out of all of them. You can believe whatever you want, but I support Rubio 100%, and will continue to do so.