Saturday evening’s GOP debate was a shitshow for Marco Rubio, who sweated profusely and robotically repeated one line four times, even after presidential rival Chris Christie mocked his use of that exact canned point.
At 8:30 pm, Rubio said “Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.”
Barely two minutes later, he repeated it: “Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing,” and again ninety seconds on, “This notion that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing is just not true. He knows exactly what he’s doing.”
At that point, Christie quipped, “there he goes again,” but it didn’t stop Rubio from using the same line again at 9:21 pm: “I think anyone who believes that Barack Obama isn’t doing what he’s doing on purpose doesn’t understand what we’re dealing with here. O.K.?”
The bizarre sequence has launched a zillion mocking tweets and is being described as Marco’s “Howard Dean” moment in honor of the 2004 Democrat candidate’s bizarre shriek of enthusiasm. The robotic quality of Rubio’s performance, however, has already launched parodies such as the RubioGlitch twitter account:
Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing.
— Marco Rubio Glitch (@RubioGlitch) February 7, 2016
You have already guessed what is said in the rest of RubioGlitch’s tweets.