During his Republican response to President Obama’s State of
the Union address, Senator Marco Rubio became thirsty but had placed his water
bottle too low and too far away, and had to awkwardly reach for it to get a
drink from it. The media ignored the
content of his speech because they were obsessing over the optics; I actually
felt a little bad for Marco but hey, I think it’s funny, too.
Who is Marco Rubio though? Mr. Rubio is the son of Cuban
immigrants; he used to tell people that his parents escaped the tyranny of
Castro until it was revealed that his parents left Cuba in 1956, three years
before Castro! D’oh! From 2000 to
2008, Marco served in the State House of Representatives in Florida, a state
known to be politically hilarious. In 2000 Floridians screwed up filling out
ballots, so much to everyone’s embarrassment, they had to recount the votes.
The whole affair ended up in the Supreme Court, where the election was decided
in the favor of George W. Bush. Some people scream about corruption to this day
because George’s brother Jeb was Governor at that time. In another more recent
screw up, Florida’s Governor Rick Scott paid more money to drug test welfare
recipients than he saved in not paying welfare to those that failed the drug
test! How idiotic.
Marco Rubio is a rising star in the Republican Party because he is
well liked by the Tea Parties, despite no apparent ties to any Tea Party, and
he’s young and Latino, two demographics the GOP is loosing with. He’ll be
speaking at the 2013 CPAC, which will be held about a mile from me, across the
Potomac at National Harbor. This is first in a series of 2013 CPAC speakers at The Strangest Adventures. He’s
against raising taxes or cutting defense spending-yawn. He’s against Obamacare
which he has vowed to defund, and contraception. What’s he’s for is a bit more
interesting though.
In January 2013, Rubio proposed a providing a path to citizenship
for undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. His proposal
includes back taxes, background checks, fines, and a probationary period. This
is possibly his defining moment in the eyes of the American people. His point
of view is diametrically opposed to the Republican Party’s traditional view
that offering citizenship to undocumented immigrants is the same as amnesty.
While many of his views are too conservative for many, certainly,
voters are known to like politicians that buck the orthodoxy. Most people feel
that Marco Rubio will run for President in 2016; he was constantly mentioned as
a potential Vice President in 2012. I feel certain that he’s a better choice
than most of the Republicans in the 2012 primaries. With no apparent heir to
the White House, 2016 could get very interesting.
Buena suerte Marco Rubio!
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