As long as this issue of immigration is a political ping pong that each side uses to win elections and influence votes, I'm telling you, it won't get solved. [emphasis mine]
Good grief. I constantly hear politicians and journalists butchering the English language, so it is perhaps unfair to single out the Tea Party's golden boy, but what on earth is this supposed to mean? There is no such construction. He might have said "politcal ping pong" or "a game of political ping pong" or even "a political football," but he cannot say "a political ping pong." What in god's name is "a ping pong"?
Remember when the late-in-WWII headline "The fascist octopus has song its swan song" convinced George Orwell (in "Politics in the English Language") that the end of civilization was nigh? Rubio's garbling isn't on that order, of course, but taken together with all of today's politician/commentariat misconstruction, it does depress the mindful.
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