To say that Mark Levin has lost it with regards to Marco Rubio is understatement. His latest diatribe reads like the rantings of an unhinged lefty. One statement that questions Levin’s state of mind starts with him saying “But Rubio has no significant accomplishments other than his election to various public offices. He has few if any accomplishments outside of politics and virtually no accomplishments in public office as a U.S. senator.”
There’s no question that Mr. Levin is a well-informed conservative. That doesn’t mean he’s always right. This time, he’s terribly dishonest. Yuval Levin highlights Sen. Rubio’s biggest accomplishment, saying “The answer, it seems to me, is that none of it would have happened if Rubio had not made the risk-corridor insurer bailout an issue, starting in 2013. Before that, a few health wonks on the right had raised red flags about the issue, but it wasn’t until Rubio and his staff grasped its significance, insistently drew attention to it, and produced a bill to avert an insurer bailout that the issue became prominent among the priorities of Obamacare’s opponents. Rubio was without question the first and most significant congressional voice on this subject, and if he hadn’t done the work he did, the risk-corridor neutralization provision would not have been in last year’s (or this year’s) budget bill.”
Unlike Sen. Cruz, who shut down the government trying to do the impossible, Sen. Rubio highlighted a provision that would have been used to bail out insurance companies, then wrote legislation that was eventually included in a major spending bill that prevents insurance company bailouts. Is Mr. Levin willing to insist that this isn’t a significant accomplishment? If he’s willing to deny the importance of Sen. Rubio’s bailout prevention provision, then he isn’t honest.
Rubio fancies himself the next Ronald Reagan. But such self-aggrandizement is unmerited.
With all due respect to Mr. Levin, who worked in the Reagan administration, I’ll trust Michael Reagan’s word over Levin’s:
If @marcorubio beats Cruz tonight that’s the win of the night….
Levin hasn’t hidden the fact that he’s supporting Sen. Cruz. He’s certainly entitled to do that. What he isn’t entitled to do, though, is use deceptive arguments to make Sen. Cruz’s chief competitor look bad. I’d expect that from a Democrat. I won’t tolerate that from a former member of the Reagan administration.
Technorati: Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Government Shutdown, Alinskyite Tactics, Marco Rubio, Michael Reagan, Insurance Company Bailout, Obamacare, Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment, Republicans, Election 2016
I would think you are a Rubio supporter. I don’t think President Reagan would shout liar, liar.
What postive accomplishments has Rubio made besides slandering Ted CRUZ’s record and now you are doing the same to Mark Levin who is an ardent supporter of the Constitution.
As much as people want to dress Rubio up, his record doesn’t match up!
Diane Johnson
Following the link, and its link re “Mark Levin,” his next latest item at the site:
Mark Levin: The Rubio Campaign’s Unseemly Alinsky Tactics Against Cruz
This suggests Levin has an ax to grind. Gary or readers, who is this Levin guy, and does he have a bias against Rubio? If so, why, beyond anything he chooses to write?
If he is a well known writer in “conservative” circles, I apologize for my ignorance of that. Not circles I follow; feeling the BERN and all.
And while it may be gauche to say, any websearch: “marco rubio ronald reagan” will bolster the suggestion that Rubio most surely is trying coat-tailing on the Gip. Not that Rubio’d coat-tail on John Kennedy or GHW Bush, both actual war heroes, not performers.
Two quick further things. First, I read and cannot recall where, that Trump would prefer a Cruz drop-out and a final battle between him and Rubio. Is anything along those lines being published online in “conservative” media circles?
Second, WaPo published an op-ed item that might interest you, Gary, titled, “The moment of truth: We must stop Trump,” by Danielle Allen, February 21. Now, Glen Taylor’s Strib carries that item in EXPANDED version, headlined - subheadlined, “This is our moment of truth regarding Donald Trump - All that’s required for him to win the presidency is for concerned citizens to stand aside,” February 22.
Both items are online.
While much of the extended item Strib published seems condescending, simplistic, and elitist to me, this being authored by a Harvard person, it argues a coalescence upon Rubio is wisdom; to stop Trump; which appears to be your theme, Gary.
That’s it. First the question, second, the info. Without links, but with the titles/sources given it should be easy to find the two op-ed items by websearch.
Diane, I won’t waste time on you. You either didn’t read my post or you don’t think that saving taxpayers literally billions of dollars each year to bail out insurance companies is an accomplishment. I suspect you’re in the minority on that.