Nailed it!

I’ve been hearing and reading all morning how “Marco Rubio nailed it,” especially in his response to Jeb Bush, when Bush suggested if he weren’t going to do a United States Senator’s work, he resign. Rubio made two arguments:

(1) The only reason Bush was making the argument now was because he and Rubio were “running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you.”

(2) And did he (Bush) know how many votes his campaign’s model, John McCain, missed when he was running for the nomination?

Nailed it!

     NOT. At least no one that took and passed Philo 101* could say so. Pay attention again, students of logic: both arguments are fallacies, ad hominem and, let’s call it, innocence by association. “You’re only saying this because . . .” doesn’t make what “you” says wrong any more than “Well, John did it” makes what “I” is doing right.
     (Nailed it.)

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* apparently not required of journalism students