Brit Hume, Chris Matthews Both Compare Rubio to Dan Quayle

Ken Shepherd | February 7, 2016
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Read more at NewsBusters | Chris Matthews and Brit Hume are, it's safe to say, probably rarely in agreement on much. Tonight, however, both compared Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio's handling of Chris Christie in tonight's New Hampshire primary debate to Dan Quayle poor debate performance in 1988 against Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas). To be sure, Hume was more measured in tone and did not seem gleeful in his pronouncement, whereas Matthews is certainly no fan of the senator – whom he's repeatedly derided as a "robot" and "sock puppet" – but all the same it's an unfavorable comparison that's illustrative of the punditocracy's conventional wisdom in the wake of tonight's debate.

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