New Republic Writer Grudgingly Admits Marco Rubio a Great Speaker
So just how good a speaker is the new senator-elect from Florida, Marco Rubio? Conservatives are rightly highly impressed with Rubio's oratory, especially his election night victory speech. However, even liberals are giving high marks to Rubio's speaking abilities. John McWhorter of The New Republic even commits liberal sacrilege by grudgingly admitting (after slamming the speeches of other conservatives) that Rubio is a better speaker than Obama. Of course, this also scares him as well:
Marco Rubio, in his victory speech, was the exception, and showed as he often has why he is the Tea Party’s real secret weapon. Starting out with gushy God talk and closing by stressing that he is a “son of exiles,” Rubio is – let’s face it – a better Obama in his way. His Christianity will always be clear to those who care, and his foreign forebears are ones who fled Communism. At first we were to suppose that Obama’s mongrelism made him “like America,” but the leftist Kenyan business is ripe for the Becks and D’Souzas among us to frame as alien, never mind that Indonesia is a Muslim country. Rubio’s foreignness is more cuddly, immune to Fox News-style demagoguery.
Plus Rubio is a natural talker. No stagy incantations of lines based on things other people said long ago; no giggling; no props; no wandering off topic. He can rub a noun and a verb together, with minimal attendance to notes. As a result, like Bill Clinton, he seems intelligent in a way that Paladino and O’Donnell do not, and approachably human and on the ground in a way that Paul, despite his active mind, cannot.
Yes, no props like no annoying teleprompters.
McWhorter couldn't resist writing this reluctant praise of Rubio without the requisite slams against other conservatives, including Rand Paul and Christine O'Donnell. However, his criticism of Rand Paul's victory speech is so laughably bizarre that it is hard not to be amused by it:
Rand Paul opened his victory speech trying to channel a bit of Obamatude by mouthing earnestly “I Have a Message!” Get it? Substitute “dream” for message, and well, that sounds like, you know. That is, the “you know” who Paul claimed he would have walked with in the sixties if he had been there, despite questioning the Civil Rights Act.
But Senator Paul, you have to say it like you mean it. He mumbled some thank you-type cliches and then abruptly lurched into his “I Have a Message” announcement, complete with an abrupt new tone of voice. It reminded me of a guy who auditioned for a production of West Side Story I was connected with long ago, who walked out to stage center, stood still, threw his hands up over his head palms forward, and started singing “Zippity Doo Dah” in a joyless rasp, rather like Jimmy Durante at gunpoint.
Hey John! Any possibility of finding that West Side Story audition video (if it exists) and posting it to YouTube? I am now very curious to see someone sing "Zippity Doo Dah" in a joyless rasp like Jimmy Durante at gunpoint.
Anyway, thanks for confirming what conservatives already know: Marco Rubio is a great speaker which is what liberals fear.
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Is he calling Rubio
Submitted by motherbelt on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:10pm.
Is he calling Rubio "articulate"??
And clean?
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 9:13pm.
Perhaps in a typical liberal racist undertone?
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Come on, really???
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:17pm.
Rubio is – let’s face it – a better Obama in his way.Now that's a seriously screwed up idea. Calling someone a "better Obama" is not a compliment. In fact, it should be considered an insult, who in the hell's right mind would want to be compared to someone who's just a script reader?
A better Obama, that's very insulting. The name will go down in history as someone who worked fervently to destroy America from within. Rubio is far superior to that.
-Jon
I couldn't agree with you
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:56pm.
I couldn't agree with you more, Jon E. Boy!!! That is the first thing I thought when I read this. I guess these guys have to keep trying to 'get Boy Blunders' back, but I think they are even finding it increasingly hard to cover for just about ANYTHING related to Dumbo.............including his suppossed 'soaring' oratorical skills, which we all know was, and is, a bunch of hype. Hell, even the Indians figured it out.................
Teleprompter
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:24pm.
This must drive the Libs nuts when they see a Republican with the capability and skills to be a great speaker without a teleprompter.
Marco is El Jefe
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:27pm.
Look at how he's already managed to get into liberal heads...and he hasn't even been sworn in. I love it. They fear him. Really fear him.
McWhorter is a fool. Marco isn't a "cuddly foreigner". He is a Red, White, and Blue bleeding American. It's who he is, not the hyphenated-American flavor de jour.
Note to McWhorter: Marco Rubio can speak without notes, or a prompter, because he has the courage of his convictions, and those don't change. He doesn't need to dance around with shades of nuance to say "yes", "no", or "is"....like your heroes do. It's easy, really. Conservatives do it every day.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Y'know, Sarah Palin as a good
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 3:01pm.
Y'know, Sarah Palin as a good speaker - very optimistic and inspired - also. But somehow, even though she is just a public figure, the libs are totally off the charts about her 24/7.......yet they have to begrudgingly take care NOT to look like they're hammering Rubio. I guess being a conservative woman who is NOT running for any office is a much more important target to the loony left than a guy like Rubio................
I love it! We knew here in
Submitted by msh1973 on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 4:15pm.
I love it! We knew here in Florida that Marco Rubio had something special over a year ago. He left Crist in the dust with his honest to goodness true Conservative values, no changing with wind. I had the pleasure of seeing him in person here in SW Florida...it was a blast, and very uplifting to hear him speak.
Duh???
Submitted by Delsa on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:48pm.
Marco is a great speaker because he is speaking from His heart and he is not reading the words of others.
He is NOT Obambi with a telepromter telling him what to say and do.
Thank God we have him.
Si
Submitted by Delsa on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 2:55pm.
El Jefe is right on!
Thank God and congrats to West!!! Finally!
2 down, 1 to go in Broward, Delsa
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 3:01pm.
Next on the menu, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, the nasty little Pelosi doppelganger. I hope we gerrymander the snot out of her district so it becomes a Republican bastion.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I told somebody earlier today
Submitted by ricklail on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 4:41pm.
I told somebody earlier today it will be hard to get shed of the gerrymandered districts. 21 states are under federal mandate to have minority voting districts. The only way to get rid of them is to get permission from the Justice Dept. Do you think Holder would do that?
Holder
Submitted by Blonde on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 5:13pm.
I am hoping Rep. Issa's Committee will keep Holder's Justice Department extremely busy, what with supoenas to appear before Congress about the Black Panther Voter Intimidation non-prosecution and whatnot.
One of the reasons I was so hot to trot for Scott (LOL)....was because Florida's governor has alot do do with redistricting. As for "approval" for minority districts, I think it's time to challenge that one, via lawsuit, too. Let's redistrict, and let the chips fall where they may....much later. We also have a Republican AG, so that's a starter, actually.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
'Extemporaneous' oration
Submitted by ampul man on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 3:56pm.
If you can find a video of O's press conference on the day after the election (I saw this on NBC nightly news), you can clearly see an ear piece in his left ear.
Is that cheating?
CNN, the Clinton News Network---Bill decides; Hill reports
Rubio
Submitted by doug1950 on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 6:15pm.
can speak like that because those are his core beliefs. He does not have to memorize glib sayings and quotes to make himself heard and understood. It is kinda like when we were kids growing up. We were told that if you always told the truth you did not have to try and remember the lie. That is the problem with many politicians today. They tell so many lies and make up so much BS along the way they can't remember what they said an hour ago much less last week.
Rubio is the kind of Stateman we need in Government today. Throw out all the career politiicans because the the truth is, they don't give a flip about no one but themselves. They don't care about America and only reason they align themselves with a party is because they basically have no choice. That is changing as we just witnessed this past week. We don't need the parties, they need us and if they can't be trusted, time to clean house.
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