“I thought it was primitive, something you’d hear in a high school debating team … Where was the consistency here? He said he was a product of solid government and positive programs but then he trashed the whole thing. And then he played the victim game that everybody seems to play; who’s the Republican victim? … Who’s being over-taxed? … There was no originality to it. It was Tinker Toys. It was a kid’s presentation of a philosophy reduced to maybe the 9th-grade level.”
Chris Matthews on Rubin’s thirst-quenching rebuttal
