Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are extremely rare and valuable Republican candidates Republicans seem to wilt and appear defenseless when confronted by a wild-eyed liberal asking about gay marriage or abortion. It is frustrating because there are very good answers to these questions. We just need politicians capable of an intelligent response.
One of the reasons people like Donald Trump is that he is not defensive at all. He just attacks. Sometimes that is good, sometimes it is very bad. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have learned to handle these questions brilliantly with intellectually sound arguments. That is why both are soaring in the polls.
Marco Rubio was challenged about abortion by Chris Cuomo and he responded brilliantly.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/07/marco-rubio-abortion-faith-cuomo-newday.cnn
Don’t pay attention to the headline, which is a typical distortion by CNN. Listen to Rubio pushes back against Chris Cuomo pointing out, correctly, that it is the liberal left who is ignoring science. Scientists acknowledge that life begins at conception. It was liberals who decided that life didn’t actually begin until some artificial date based on their concept of political correctness. It was liberals who ignored science to pretend that a fetus isn’t human so that they could justify killing it.
A few weeks ago Ted Cruz was asked repeatedly about gay marriage. The response he gave was equally brilliant:
If we can avoid nominating RINOs so willing to cave under the pressure of political correctness, the world will notice something important. Conservatives have the winning arguments with regard to issues like gay marriage and abortion. We just need someone with the skill and the courage to make those arguments. We are fortunate that at least two of them are running for President of the United States.
TDM