President-elect Marco Rubio, umm, I mean Senator Marco Rubio, was in Iowa this past week stumping for Republican Senatorial candidate and veteran Joni Ernst, who has opened up a bigger, more sustained lead in the latest polls against her Democrat rival, Bruce Braley.
After Rubio finished campaign for Ernst, addressed some 600 GOP faithful in Bettandorf, Iowa.Here are excerpts a Bloomberg.com of Rubio’s speech”
“When America doesn’t lead, what’s left behind is a vacuum, and the vacuum leads to chaos… “We’re seeing it play out on every region of this planet.” Senator Marco Rubio
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“When American fails to lead, there is nothing to replace it.”
“This is the world Barack Obama has led to, a world where American leadership is not trusted or respected by our adversaries, or trust by our allies and the result is the chaos we see around us…”The world is a better, a safer, a more prosperous place when the United States of America is the strongest nation on the planet…”I’m not saying that America needs to involved in every conflict,” he said. “When American fails to lead, there is nothing to replace it. It’s not the United Nations, trust me. You don’t want it to be China or Russia. The European Union doesn’t want the responsibility. There is nothing in the world to replace our ability to lead globally.”
Is there any doubt that Rubio is running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016?