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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP strategist: We need Rubio because ‘he knows who Tupac is’
Sunday on ABCs This Week, GOP operative Nicole Wallace argued that Rubio was good for the party as a whole because, he knows who Tupac is. That knowledge, she said, proved that he could connect to young voters, a demographic the GOP has typically sruggled to court.
Hes everything we need and more, Wallace, a who served as an aide to former President George W. Bush and later advised Sen John McCains 2008 presidential campaign, said. Hes modern. He knows who Tupac is. He is on social media.
I mean, hes got the policy. Hes in touch with, I think, the lives of ordinary people. And hes a very accessible guy, she said. He talks about being a working dad and juggling his own priorities.
Yet in using Tupac as an example, Wallace may have made Rubio seem more in touch with the youth of 20 years ago as opposed to the youth of today. Tupac was murdered in 1996, and has hardly been culturally relevant since, aside from one holographic performance and a few posthumous releases.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/10/gop-strategist-we-need-rubio-because-he-knows-who-tupac-is/
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GOP strategist: We need Rubio because ‘he knows who Tupac is’ (Original Post)
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Feb 2013
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Journeyman
(15,036 posts)1. I'm 58 years old. I know who Tupac was. This knowledge does not help me connect to anyone. . .
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)3. ha ha I am older than that
and I am positive the republican party does not want me to run as one of them.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)2. ...in fact , if he had breasts , he'd be perfect!
/sarc off
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)4. Well, that would certainly make me change my vote....
NOT! Yeah, Rubio's modern all right. That's why he's shilling for the "turn-back-the-clock" party.
tanyev
(42,567 posts)5. Going for that 35-50 yr old youth vote.