Marco Rubio in President 2016

[MyOneAndOnly]

throws hat into the ring by demonstrating to conservative voters that he hates science

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/poli...-december-2012

GQ: How old do you think the Earth is?

Marco Rubio: I'm not a scientist, man. I can tell you what recorded history says, I can tell you what the Bible says, but I think that's a dispute amongst theologians and I think it has nothing to do with the gross domestic product or economic growth of the United States. I think the age of the universe has zero to do with how our economy is going to grow. I'm not a scientist. I don't think I'm qualified to answer a question like that. At the end of the day, I think there are multiple theories out there on how the universe was created and I think this is a country where people should have the opportunity to teach them all. I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says. Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.

[meangreensp]

Or that opinions on science are irrelevant to politics.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Anybody that says science is a matter of opinion or that it's not relevant to the running of our country is making a partisan statement.

[MyOneAndOnly]

I don't think Rubio believes what he's saying. He's mouthing the republican primary script because he knows that fundamentalist christian conservatives won't vote for a president who supports things like science, reality, etc.

this is why Chris Christie won't be in president ever. because he can't lie like rubio

[MyOneAndOnly]

teabaggers better get a fundamentalist out to Iowa and start campaigning asap

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

Anybody that says science is a matter of opinion or that it's not relevant to the running of our country is fucking stupid.

fixed

[MyOneAndOnly]

Idiocracy is realz

[hnibos]

"I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

lulz

[duovamp]

Basically anyone who answers that question as anything other than very simply "A few billion years old," is a fucking moron. And we can /thread. I mean any time someone actually needs a paragraph to come up with a number... you know they're just Monteing.

[Order 66]

7 days or 7 actual eras

[duovamp]

God timed it. It was seven days.

[Order 66]

lol i really didnt expect this to hit so many media outlets. its like we're getting the fall of 2016 out of the way already

[MyOneAndOnly]

Gotta start callin these dumb asses out

[Order 66]

in his defense i think its just a slow news cycle. but its starting to show how tight of a corner the party is in. christie is pretty much the only candidate living in the 21st century and even if he's nominated he'll still have to carry their baggage

[duovamp]

Also in his defense he has a lot of religious fuckheads who he desperately needs to keep happy by pretending science doesn't exist.

[duovamp]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...nem/?hpt=po_c2

[meangreensp]

It's called "religion". Some people believe in it, some don't. Science is constantly changing.

[duovamp]

Holy shit are you the Bible?

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by meangreensp

It's called "religion". Some people believe in it, some don't. Science is constantly changing.

[Order 66]

if we came from monkeys why arent monkeys coming out of us

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally Posted by hnibos

Science is constantly changing, though. Or at least, our understanding of science.

[Trotskilicious]

yes but science relies on evidence and experimentation whereas religion relies on various interpretations of texts written thousands of years ago

[Trotskilicious]

so like science would prove that a table stays on the ground because of gravity and present a mathematical framework to explain it and religion just explains everything by GOD WILLS IT

so shut up and DIE

[Future Boy]

All the talking up of this guy and Ive never seen it. Him and Jindal. Such a horrible answer. Hes not a scientist? no shit, must be some other Rubio.

[Future Boy]

damn bold and underlined

[Trotskilicious]

lol bobby jindal

OMGZ OBAMERZ IS NOT DOING ENUF 4 GULF SPILL SEE UR Oh wait okay n/m

[Trotskilicious]

INVISIBLE SKY MAN KNOWS WHAT DO

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Order 66

in his defense i think its just a slow news cycle. but its starting to show how tight of a corner the party is in. christie is pretty much the only candidate living in the 21st century and even if he's nominated he'll still have to carry their baggage

christie does is job, and has to apologize for it to his party

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/20/us....html?hp&_r=1&

In New Jersey, Mr. Christie’s politics-be-damned approach to the storm seemed to represent a moment of high-minded crisis management for a governor frequently defined by his public diatribes and tantrums. Mr. Christie locked arms with Mr. Obama, flew with him on Marine One, talked with him daily and went out of his way to praise him publicly as “outstanding,” “incredibly supportive” and worthy of “great credit.”

But in the days after the storm, Mr. Christie and his advisers were startled to hear from out-of-state donors to Mr. Romney, who had little interest in the hurricane and viewed him solely as a campaign surrogate, demanding to know why he had stood so close to the president on a tarmac. One of them questioned why he had boarded Mr. Obama’s helicopter, according to people briefed on the conversations.

It did not help that Mr. Romney had not called Mr. Christie during those first few days, people close to the governor say.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

Science is constantly changing, though. Or at least, our understanding of science.

science is a method of determining probabilities. science is not "changing," it recognizes that it cannot claim objectivity, only identify likelihoods

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by Nimrod's Son

Science is constantly changing, though. Or at least, our understanding of science.

either you typed that while stoned or you don't know jack shit about it