Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., perhaps gave a preview of his debate strategy should he join Mitt Romney’s ticket, as he pronounced Vice President Joe Biden “wrong on everything” about foreign policy.
“Joe Biden’s record on foreign policy is one of being wrong on everything that he’s ever advised or everything he’s ever asked for — from dividing Iraq, to admittedly telling the president not to go in and do this operation,” Rubio observed when asked about Biden touting the bin Laden raid in an attack on Romney.
Biden, hitting Romney days before the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, said “Thanks to President Obama, bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. You have to ask yourself, had Governor Romney been president, could he have used the same slogan in reverse?”
Rubio briefly faulted Biden for using that raid as a political bludgeon, before dismissing the gaffe-prone vice president as a legitimate interlocutor. “Vice President Biden has the tendency to say some interesting things to say the least,” he told Fox News‘ Chris Wallace.
The freshman senator made a pitch to independents, though, as well. “When this president ran for office in 2008, he said he was going to be different. He was going to be a post-partisan uniter to bring Americans together,” Rubio recalled. “And in his obsessive effort to win his reelection, he has lost himself and he has lost what makes him different. And this issue of how they’ve used the bin Laden raid is one example about how his administration has become just like everybody else.”
