Marco Rubio's Argument: If Rachel Maddow Says I'm Wrong, Then I Must Be Right (VIDEO)

Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio is out with a new web video laying out the argument that his recently released "12 simple ideas to grow the economy and create jobs" are smart simply because MSNBC host Rachel Maddow disagrees with them.

"How can you know the plan is right?" text reads in the video. "Rachel Maddow thinks it's wrong."

The ad then highlights a few staples of Marco Rubio's economic platform:

Marco Rubio Supports:

Extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.
Cutting taxes for American businesses.
Ending double taxation.
Repealing and replacing Obamacare.

The video concludes with the implication that if you "think Marco's ideas are wrong," you should just go ahead and watch Rachel Maddow. If you agree with Rubio however, you can donate to his campaign.

The GOP pillar of extending the Bush -- "2001 and 2003" -- tax cuts has come under heavy fire over the past week. Sen. John Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that it was acceptable for tax cuts to the wealthy to add to the deficit, even though he has spent weeks obstructing an extension of unemployment benefits because the package wasn't deficit neutral.

Watch the video:

Comments

[fredamae]

09:09 AM on 07/20/2010

rubio, Stop, Think, Listen: If Rachel says you are Wrong, then you Probably ARE!

We, out here, know it.

[BassetPapa]

08:30 AM on 07/20/2010

Quite frankly no one has said it more clearly and logically than Christian Troy when he opines, "Actually, if Rachael Maddow says your wrong, then you must be wrong.... ". Why is that clear and logical? Because when Rachael does a story she does her research, applies it logically, and reports it honestly and fairly. These days, a truly novel concept in journalism. It doesn't matter to her if you appear on the show, or, like so many Republicans, you lack the moral courage of your convictions to appear with her, she is still fair. If you get heartburn at what she says, then you are getting heartburn at the facts and that she brought those facts to your attention. Marco Rubio is just another Republican coward who will take cheap shots, just as David Vitter did recently, but who lack the courage to face her and stand up for their beliefs, except in their own circles. Someone profound once said, "True courage is not the absence of fear—but the willingness to proceed in spite of it." So guys, what are you each afraid of?

[Paulo1]

08:06 AM on 07/20/2010

I was watching Rachel last night and saw what she did with this ad. She sliced and diced him.

The best weapon in the hands of Dems are a few people with the cutting whit to take on people like this head on and make fools of them. Stewart, Colbert, Stephanie Miller and Rachel Maddow are our best.

[fredamae]

09:09 AM on 07/20/2010

I watched that also, it was Great! lol.....

[Takebackourmoney]

06:25 AM on 07/20/2010

Records show Marco Rubio spent thousands with GOP credit card
By Beth Reinhard and Scott Hiaasen, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau
In Print: Thursday, February 25, 2010

U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio charged grocery bills, repairs to the family minivan and purchases from a wine store less than a mile from his West Miami home to the Republican Party of Florida while he was speaker of the Florida House, according to records obtained by the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald.
Rubio said Wednesday that he paid for all personal expenses billed to an American Express card given to him by the party to use from 2005 to 2008, when he left public office. The rest of the charges, he said, were legitimate party expenses.
Those expenses include a $1,000 charge at Braman Honda in Miami for repairs to the family car in January 2008. Rubio said the minivan was damaged by parking attendants at a political function and that the party agreed to cover half of his insurance deductible. The party also paid $2,976 for him to rent a car in Miami for five weeks.
Rubio said the party allowed him to put personal expenses on the card and the party reviewed his bill monthly.

[taddles]

06:09 AM on 07/20/2010

Wow did you get owned Marco. Next time try taking a shot at someone who won't shoot back and blow your head clean off.

"Keep the '01 and '03 tax cuts: add $2.3 trillion to the deficit.
End the estate tax: add $364 billion to the deficit.
Prevent cap-and-trade legislation: add $19 billion to the deficit.
Repeal health care reform: add $138 Billion to the deficit.

When Marco Rubio says he would cut the deficit he either doesn't understand his own policy ideas or he doesn't understand what a deficit is" - Dr. Maddow

Oh yea, that's gonna leave a mark.

[Takebackourmoney]

05:18 PM on 07/20/2010

Rachael did not say word but she blew his head off last night.

[Christian Troy]

01:17 AM on 07/20/2010

Actually, if Rachael Maddow says your wrong, then you must be wrong....

[hearmeloudandclear]

12:48 AM on 07/20/2010

Marco......don't even try Maddow.....she is so far out of your league. Thus far - her brillance is unsurpassed.

ANYONE who has not seen her....watch that show - it is impossible NOT to learn something from her show in the way of facts, back-up data, etc. And she's funny at that. She has a unique manner in presenting factual, accurate content and if she is ever incorrect in information she has - she's the first to point it out and acknowledge it.

After you see her once...you WILL watch again.

[BoyInBOYCOTT]

10:33 PM on 07/19/2010

Charlie Crist has to watch "dropping a spangle" (that's an old term used back around George Cukor's era about a gay man looking to fey) when he sees Rachel skewer Rubio, to not snap three times and say "you go sister-friend!"

[BoyInBOYCOTT]

10:30 PM on 07/19/2010

Rachel just tap danced on Marco.....with her cleats on, it was HILLARIOUS, and she ended with
"Tag You're It".....daring him to respond back.
If he's wise he'll not take her up on her challenge....he is SO out of his league vs. a Rhode's Scholar.
I don't know if Oxford teaches the Clinton form of combat, but Rachel knows it very well, wait for an opponent to attack...THEN you can be absolutely viscious and ruthless in your counter attack, and you look like you are only defending yourself. Rachel also similar to Clinton mixes humerous ridicule in the attack, so people laugh as they slide the shiv in their opponent's back....all the way to the HILT.
didn't see the clip up on Rachel's website yet.....but watch when you can.....too FUNNY!

[truthglow]

10:30 PM on 07/19/2010

It's amazing how much influence Rachel has. She is absolutely fabulous, and she is ALWAYS right!

[Jim Pasterczyk]

09:07 PM on 07/19/2010

Black is white, left is right, up is down, night is day, however you want to define it is OK. Apparently these people live in a world with no gravity.

[Justdontgetit]

08:42 PM on 07/19/2010

"Right" does not mean truthful or correct.

[santiago sherwood]

08:23 PM on 07/19/2010

As a latino myself, Rubio is an embarrassment

[winningticket]

05:45 PM on 07/19/2010

If loving Rachel Maddow is wrong, then I don't want to be right.

[ArjenBoatsma]

09:00 PM on 07/19/2010

I don't want to be right either, I'd much rather be left.

[KeyInfo]

04:26 PM on 07/19/2010

For starters Rubio, I don't even know who you are. Never heard of you. Rachel Maddow is one of the sharpest political minds around. If she ran for Senate she would win easily. While a Democrat she is still objective and will admit when she's wrong and the Redneck Republicans are right. Seriously somebody please tell me who Rubio is. I googled him and nothing comes up. He must really be a big ZERO. I mean I even come up on Google.

[Justdontgetit]

08:44 PM on 07/19/2010

Notice Rubbio and Vitter are both riding on Dr. Maddow's coat tails right now? By insulting her.

What class acts those little politicans are. ;-(

[Takebackourmoney]

06:14 AM on 07/20/2010

Rachael is an independent. She has stated that on her show.