February 08, 2016 01:08 PM UTC

Get More Smarter on Monday (Feb. 8)

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• by: Colorado Pols

The Denver Broncos are the Super Bowl Champions! Just in case there is someone out there in Colorado who hasn’t heard yet. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example).

TOP OF MIND TODAY…

► What will President Obama do with his time when he is finished with his second term in the White House? He probably does not have a second career in sports handicapping.

► Carolina Panthers fans will probably prefer to forget what happened this weekend, and GOP Presidential candidate Marco Rubio is hoping you’ll do the same. During a Republican Presidential debate in New Hampshire on Saturday, Rubio completely fell apart, with help from a savage debate beating at the hands of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. From the Huffington Post:

If a Rubio rally on Sunday was any indication, the senator’s exchange with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in Saturday night’s debate that pointed out his propensity to repeat the same talking points is actually giving Rubio’s supporters, long-standing ones and the prospective kind, pause.

“Rubio got a little beat-down,” Will Stewart of Manchester said at an event that was billed as a Super Bowl watch party with Rubio.

“The whole talking point issue is concerning,” Stewart, who is undecided, continued. “You hope there’s a little more depth there.”

Rubio certainly earned a new nickname with his Saturday debate debacle: Marco Roboto. As The Washington Post explains:

If anything, Rubio showed that he is less rhetorically gifted than the current occupant of the Oval Office. In addition to the governors, Trump joined the Rubio pile on, citing problems at the VA to make the case Obama is in over his head.

Worse, as that battle was playing out, Rubio kept repeating the same talking point, which was cringe-worthy because Christie had attacked him hard for hewing closely to canned talking points. The New Jersey governor pounced when Rubio repeated the same point almost verbatim, and with the same cadence, that he had made minutes earlier. “There it is,” the governor interjected. “The memorized 25-second speech. There it is, everybody.”

Get even more smarter after the jump…

► Carly Fiorina is still seeking the Republican Presidential nomination. How are things going? Our friends at “The Fix” point to this great picture of a less-than-enthusiastic woman at a Fiorina rally in New Hampshire:

► Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has a rather strange stance on the issue of torture.