Christie: Rubio’s Comment About The Blizzard Shows A ‘Real Immaturity’

Republican presidential candidate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the New Hampshire Forum on Addiction and the Heroin Epidemic at Southern New Hampshire University, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, in Manchester, N.H... Republican presidential candidate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie speaks at the New Hampshire Forum on Addiction and the Heroin Epidemic at Southern New Hampshire University, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm) MORE LESS
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Republican presidential candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday that rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s comment about the winter storm showed “a real immaturity.”

The Blaze had reported that Rubio joked about the blizzard saying that the winter storm was good because it had prevented agencies from issuing new regulations.

Christie responded during an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“Well, that’s a difference between a United States senator who has never been responsible for anything and a governor who is responsible for everything
that goes on in your state. Fourteen people died across the country,” Christie said. “And that shows a real immaturity from Senator Rubio to be joking as
families were freezing in the cold, losing power, and some of them
losing their loved ones.”

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  1. Watch Rubio be the first to demand that the President send in FEMA after the next hurricane hits Florida…

    For once, I agree with Christie.

  2. “And that shows a real immaturity from Senator Rubio to be joking as families were freezing in the cold, losing power, and some of them losing their loved ones.”

    Anybody actually qualified to be the GOP nominee would have fit at least one 9/11 in there somewhere.

  3. At what point does Christie’s “that’s the difference between a governor who must get things done and a senator who just argues about things” routine become hackneyed pandering to even the most ignorant ears?

  4. For once I, too, find myself in agreement with Christie. Rubio can memorize lines and read his ALEC generated scripted answers, but if you give him a follow up question, his eyes glaze over. He is a shallow, empty-headed whisp, about as substantial as a pimple on a mosquito’s ass. As the real Rubio starts to becomes obviously oblivious, his run for the nomination will die like a Ford Pinto when it reached 50,000 miles.

  5. Marco Rubio will never make it in comedy.

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