Marco Rubio might want to rethink his comments lauding Rick Santorum as someone who will be useful for Rubio’s presidential bid. On Thursday, the former 2016 presidential hopeful who dropped out of the race on Wednesday while endorsing Rubio had a singular problem when he was asked to name any of Rubio’s senatorial accomplishments: he couldn’t name one.
Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” where he was asked what Rubio’s top accomplishment was that had elicited Santorum’ s support, Santorum stumbled, “Well, I mean, uh, I would just say, that, there’s a guy who’s, uh, been able to, uh, uh, number one, uh, win .. win a tough election in Florida, and and pull people together from a variety of different, uh, spots … this is a guy that, uh, I think can work together with people …”
Pressed again to name Rubio’s top accomplishment, Santorum lamely protested, “My feeling on Marco is someone who has tremendous potential, tremendous gifts, if you look at being a minority in the United States Senate in a year, four years where nothing got done, I guess it’s hard to say there are accomplishments. I mean, tell me, what happened during that four years that was an accomplishment for anybody. It was a complete gridlock.”
Finally, Santorum concluded, “The bottom line is there isn’t a lot of accomplishments, Joe, and I just don’t think it’s a fair question to say – over the last four years where nothing has happened and then blame one person because he didn’t get accomplishments done. Neither did President Obama.”
Racking his brain, Santorum finally retrieved something: Rubio opposed the $2.5 billion ObamaCare bailout. He iterated, “Well, I know he included something that went after the insurance companies in the most recent omnibus. He fought for that, to stop bailing out insurance companies. That’s one thing I’m familiar that I just saw recently.”
Finally, Santorum concluded, “The bottom line is there isn’t a lot of accomplishments, Joe, and I just don’t think it’s a fair question to say – over the last four years where nothing has happened and then blame one person because he didn’t get accomplishments done. Neither did President Obama.”
“The bottom line is there isn’t a lot of accomplishments, Joe.”
Rick Santorum on Marco Rubio
Rubio had said of Santorum, “We look forward to teaming up; he’s going to be hopefully very active in our campaign. We want to use him as much as he’s willing to work for us.”