Advice for Rubio: Enter Laughing

Rake-stepping for speed and accuracy

Rake-stepping for speed and accuracy


Today the Sun Sentinel called for the resignation of Marco ‘Big Gulp’ Rubio, the Cold Warrior for a New Generation, and beloved grandson figure of Wingnuts over the age of 65 and under the age of death. They give us some background:

After five years in the U.S. Senate, Marco Rubio does not like his job. A long-time friend told The Washington Post “he hates it.” Rubio says hate might be too strong a word, but he sure acts like he hates his job.

Rubio has missed more votes than any other senator this year. His seat is regularly empty for floor votes, committee meetings and intelligence briefings. He says he’s MIA from his J-O-B because he finds it frustrating and wants to be president, instead.

“I’m not missing votes because I’m on vacation,” he told CNN on Sunday. “I’m running for president so that the votes they take in the Senate are actually meaningful again.”

Sorry, senator, but Floridians sent you to Washington to do a job. We’ve got serious problems with clogged highways, eroding beaches, flat Social Security checks and people who want to shut down the government.

Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark.

But then, the editorial board decided to stop sugar-coating it:

If you hate your job, senator, follow the honorable lead of House Speaker John Boehner and resign it.

Let us elect someone who wants to be there and earn an honest dollar for an honest day’s work. Don’t leave us without one of our two representatives in the Senate for the next 15 months or so.

You are paid $174,000 per year to represent us, to fight for us, to solve our problems. Plus you take a $10,000 federal subsidy — declined by some in the Senate — to participate in one of the Obamacare health plans, though you are a big critic of Obamacare.

You are ripping us off, senator.

And it gets meaner from there. An excellent read.

Some of the better bloggers think that’s a knock-out blow for Big Gulp, but I suspect he’ll be fine with it: “it’s the liberal media” is a bandaid that covers all wounds in the New Confederacy, so I don’t expect that it will cause any lasting damage.

If Rubio somehow or other does get the nod from the GOP, it is not going to be because anyone finds his message attractive, or his youth, and given that he’s onboard with deporting 12 million undocumented people, he’s not going to garner much of their support either (and believe me, Cubans are not loved by the rest of the immigrant population). I don’t see any groundswell for his cold warrior, anti-gay, pro-forced birth positions with the target millenials. If he does get the nomination it will be because everyone else is too damaged.

Rubio is not a choice, he’s a back-up plan.

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5 Responses to Advice for Rubio: Enter Laughing

  1. Raymond says:

    In addition Rubio should be waving and wearing a dunce hat. Whenever he opens start out with Well golly or shucks and stomp his foot.

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  2. roket says:

    “A lot of these [Senate] votes won’t mean anything. They’re not going to pass and even if they did, the president would veto it.” Marco Rubio (R – Alfred E. Newman Branch)

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    • grs says:

      I wish the media followed up on that in conjunction to the sham Benghazi investigation public admission by McCarthy.

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  3. grs says:

    Countdown to Palin Facebook screed about liberal media and gotcha questions in 3…2…1…

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  4. Bruce388 says:

    One could say the same about Governor Christie, but considering the job he’s done so far, maybe New Jersey is better off with him waddling around in Iowa and New Hampshire.

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