Praise to Adam Weinstein at Gawker for his epic sandbagging of “biggest idiot running for President"

[kpete]

Get to Know Marco Rubio, the Biggest Idiot Running for President
Adam Weinstein
4/14/15 2:50pm


… Rubio’s entry in the 2016 presidential race will fuck up his hitherto inexplicably promising career. It will cost the Republican Party dearly in Florida and in Washington. It will prove to be one of the dumbest moves in the dumb history of politics. This will happen because Marco Rubio is that rare youthful combination of un-telegenic bumbling incompetence and malign corruption only Florida can nourish to maturity.

Rubio has two major political achievements. First, he was speaker of the Florida House of Representatives—an annual beauty pageant of ugly Republicans, by ugly Republicans, for ugly Republicans, so that ugly Republicans shall not perish from the earth. Second, he took an election from political changeling Charlie Crist, something that a reanimated pygmy skink could do, and has done. The thickest section of Rubio’s resumé is his involvement in some truly ghastly internecine political and financial corruption. But he’s running against a Clinton, a Bush, and a Texan. So much for that advantage…

Rubio… is skipping a run for reelection to the Senate next year. So in order to kiss an Iowa state-fair butter cow and hope it convinces enough slackjaw racist-emailing state delegates to rush over to his corner of some god-forsaken parqueted gym floor in Dubuque, he will have to give up a job he could have held for life as a United States senator in the union’s fast-growing, third-largest, politically up-for-grabs state. A job that could have positioned him well for 2020 or 2024 or the governor’s mansion or Fox News, after he’d had a few more seasons to learn to talk with his tongue in his mouth.

More to the point, Rubio’s decision is going to cost Republicans hundreds of millions in critical political money at best, and lose them a previously safe Senate seat at worst. He was uniquely positioned to hold his seat in a presidential election year, which typically favors Democrats in Florida. Thanks to his blandness and his refusal to do, like, policy, his approval numbers and net positives beat those of any other state politician. No other Republican comes close…

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MORE good stuff:
http://gawker.com/get-to-know-marco-rubio-the-biggest-idiot-running-for-1697567638
via:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2015/04/14/epic-read-open-thread-get-to-know-marco-rubio/

[dhill926]

1. K & R...

fantastic article, complete with a Hedley Lamar reference! "Rubio is, as Hedley Lamarr might say, a provincial putz"

[bullwinkle428]

2. I truly think this moron believes the Veep spot is his for the taking!

He doesn't realize that they need to go with a woman if they're going to make any effort at all to counteract how many women voters Hillary is going to draw in.

[lexington filly]

3. Think he'll get publicity, get lots of money for his PAC, then drop out in plenty of time

to still be able to run for re-election for senator. These politicians raise money, then donate selectively to other politicians---buying "friends" which buys influence (power). I think the same about Rand Paul. Here in KY, he can't run for two federal offices at once. But he has almost a year before that's even an issue and trying in the meantime to game the rules by changing the KY Republicans from a regular primary to a caucus system.
Paul's modus operandi has always been that rules apply to everyone but him.
Bush's apocalyptic money machine and business as usual boys' club will blow these guys out of the water and they probably know it. But in the meantime: money, money, and "Look at me!"

[BadGimp]

4. Your lips to God's ears Adam!

eom

[DeSwiss]

5. K&R

- And if the Presidency thing doesn't work out he can always try show business.

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''See? I'm the real one. How else can I talk while the dummy takes a drink?''[/center]

[central scrutinizer]

6. Rubio is already showing up on

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

not a crowd you want to be associated with

[Initech]

7. Wow tough to decide between him and Ted Cruz for stupidest.