Marco Rubio Gaffe: Government Over More Freedom at RNC Speech

[trailmonkee]

Source: policymic

Marco Rubio delivered a powerful address at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, ahead of Mitt Romney's acceptance speech, but his great speech was cut short by a bad gaffe in which he directly contradicted his message.

In the final sentence of his speech, Rubio told voters that he dreamed about the day when there will be more "government over more freedom," with Mitt Romney in office. He clearly meant the opposite, that Republicans want more freedom over more government.

Convention goers were surprised by the remark. According to PolicyMic correspondent Nick McNiff, "The Rubio misstep about more government over more freedom really threw everyone off."

How the gaffe will play with voters remains to be seen. But, it was certainly confusing to listeners and goes against the Republican platform.

Read more: http://www.policymic.com/articles/13905/marco-rubio-gaffe-government-over-more-freedom-at-rnc-speech

[KamaAina]

1. He should have gone all the way and endorsed Obama

like Jan Brewer did.

[kestrel91316]

2. ...

[Cha]

6. LOL!

My sides are splitting tonight!

Why not!

[Merlot]

3. If I had to choose, I'd take more democratic gov't over the repubs "freedom"

since for them freedom means the right to breath dirty air, eat bad food, carry a gun everywhere, not be able to have conception or choice for women, have no health care or social safety net, and only have one choice in religion.

[alp227]

4. Another faux pas: did Rubio pull a "you didn't build that"?

As i was watching I noticed him crediting teachers for someone's (presumably Romney's) success. Hmmmmmm.

[lunasun]

5. everyone of them incoherent ,screwed up or outright lying

[Cha]

7. That's exactly what would happen, too..

if those Liars got in. They would create a facist gov and we would not have freedom to do anything.

[socialindependocrat]

8. Freudian Slip?

What are they thinking and does the truth slip out in between all the party lies?

[Javaman]

10. +1 nt

[JI7]

9. i'm sure christie , Santorum, and anyone else planning to run in 2016

will have that ready to use against him in ads.