Monthly Archives February 2016

I believe Marco Rubio can win the New Hampshire Primary but he needs to change the narrative quickly. The media especially Fox News has put him in a box for one miscue during the debate and he needs to break out of that box with something bold.  If he held a press conference or went on various local media outlets as well as Fox News to announce an important policy that would tilt this playing well. I would suggest that this policy would deal with issues such as helping parents, friends, and family get drug and mental health treatment for those that have been unwilling to seek such needed help. Here is how it would work (see below). Yet other policy issues might work just as well as long as they deal with what the people of New Hampshire are battling on a regular basis and it shows the leadership that Marco Rubio brings to such issues.

(1) The Federal Government would disburse monies from DEA to local and state authorities to initiate  plans from the ground up  so that intervention (forced if necessary) can be made to stop loved ones from hurting themselves or others with illegal drugs and/or untreated mental illness.

(2) These plans would have to meet certain basic criteria before funding to take into account the rights of  the individual needing treatment as well as those trying to help.

(3) State and Local Plans would be evaluated and if they were not meeting specific targets funding would be eliminated until changes were made.

There is no more difficult stage to be on then a Presidential Debate  where ever word (for some) is cut open as if was a lab experiment.   While Actors and musicians get plenty of do-overs and they study/ practice endless hours repeating the same lines that doesn’t occur when you’re in this situation.  Where fresh  spontaneous answers is expected time and again to questions you might not be fully prepared for.  Most reporters have their teleprompters or notes right in front of them so they can sound as if they were geniuses although they are really fancy actors instead.

There is no doubt Marco Rubio was the one under the knife last night and the media was ready to slice him up but is that truly the best way to judge a candidate on one nights performance ? Most in the media will agree that he has excelled in so many previous occasions on the debate stage and had some brilliant moments  last night as well? Shouldn’t we base instead on the overall package he/she has delivered throughout their career instead?  The question is how many of us would believe that was just if we were put in a similar situation?  I believe even “The Prosecutor” in New Jersey would not close all lanes to a great candidate who had one stumbling moment.  For we all should be tested over-time not just in a moment’s glance.