Not necessarily an impossible task

The CW regarding the opposition party's response to the State of the Union address concerns what a hopeless task it is.  There you are, in some deserted D.C. building, speaking into a camera and making the case against the President, who, having been grandiloquently introduced, more than once by different dignitaries, to tumultuous applause, has just finished addressing, in the House chamber, all the members of the Congress, together with the Supreme Court and the top generals, the Vice President and Speaker of the House seated directly behind him, and a prime-time network television audience delivered and invisibly but palpably impressed by the theatrics.  What can anyone do?  Poor, poor Marco Rubio.  He  had an impossible task.

Not necessarily.