The GOP's Rubio dilemma

The Republican presidential field is debating whether Obama knows what he's doing — and whether Rubio does either

The GOP has some reservations about Marco Rubio.
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Marco Rubio suffered a massively deflating fifth-place finish in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary. And he's owning it, telling his supporters that "our disappointment tonight is not on you, it's on me." He further vowed, "Listen to this: That will never happen again. That will never happen again."

"That," of course, refers to Rubio's bafflingly repetitive claims about Barack Obama in the last big debate before this crucial primary.

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W. James Antle III

W. James Antle III is the politics editor of the Washington Examiner, the former editor of The American Conservative, and author of Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?.