Rubio shines as Jeb Bush flops

Marco Rubio was asked the same question put to Jeb Bush:   Knowing all that we now know, would you have authorized the war in Iraq?

According to Igor Bobic of the Huffington Post: 

"With the dexterity of an acrobat, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) found a way to do what his mentor and likely rival for the White House, Jeb Bush, did not: reconcile his support for the Iraq invasion with the political inconvenience of appearing to support an unpopular war. . . 

“'Not only would I not have been in favor of it, President [George W.] Bush would not have been in favor of it,' Rubio said following a major foreign policy speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York." 

Yes, of course, he had the benefit of time to prepare his answer after the grand misstep of his mentor.   But Bush also had the same time and circumstance to prepare his later explanation.  And he also flubbed that.

Ralph