This post has been updated.
A new ad from Right to Rise, the Super PAC supporting former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s presidential bid, criticizes Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for missing national security briefings, hearings, and important votes in the Senate.
The 30-second spot slams Rubio for putting politics first by skipping votes and briefings to attend fundraisers.
Right to Rise will spend $1.43 million to play the ad in Iowa Dec. 29 and Jan. 11, according to the Des Moines Register.
Rubio’s campaign on Tuesday protested the ad, arguing that the ad’s claim that Rubio skipped a national security briefing on Nov. 18 after the Paris terrorist attacks amounts to “intellectual dishonesty” because the senator attended a similar hearing the day before.
“Bush’s team dishonestly omits that Marco is on the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, where he attended the highest level briefings on the Paris attacks,” Rubio spokesman Alex Conant told MSNBC. “No other candidate for president has received more classified Intelligence briefings or better understands the threats facing our nation today than Marco. It’s sad to see Jeb’s ‘joyful’ campaign reduced to such intellectual dishonesty.”
Well, it is accurate, its just that its a day late and a dollar short…which is typical when it comes to Jeb! He could have gone after his voting record eons ago if Rubio’s been missing that many votes…but he didn’t. And to run this ad for almost 2 weeks is ridiculous. Anyone I know that keeps seeing the same ad over and over again just switches the channel, as do most people.
Not to worry. Rubio plans to get all his work done during his second Presidential term when he won’t be running for office again.
Go get 'em Jeb!
(Shouldn’t he be punching Trump?)
I know we are 315 days until election day and the tides will surely turn, but I feel like both Rube-io and Jeb! should just donate their campaign war chests to some food-relief program somewhere and move on.
They are still included in everyone’s short-list, but only because the list needs filler. In the past couple of days, NPR has had major stories on each of them and their upbringing, development as candidates, etc. (It’s hard to waste a good article that has been in development a while!) But only Rube-io has a chance at the nomination, and he would have to beat out The Donald and Tailgunner Ted to get there.
Oh, and pass the popcorn. It is going to get interesting soon!
Rubio: How can we trust brother of the worst president of USofA? How can anyone justify Iraq invasion based on what we know now or knew at that time. Bush clan is corrupt.