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Get to Know Marco Rubio, the Biggest Idiot Running for President
This is really hilarious...
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.
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But the larger and more insidious reason we are talking about Marco Rubio is because his waifish, manufactured brand appeals to a small number of highly influential idiots with billions of dollars to spend fine-tuning a plutocratic system that's immediately responsive to most of their whimsbut not yet all of them. These are the Koch-heads, the sugar barons, the neocon casino magnates, the football-and-car-dealership tycoons, the i-bankers and hedge-funders looking for a soft, supple hand to stimulate their sacks of cash with a youthful wink and a nod to old-fashioned values. Or just opportunistic contractors who see the wisdom in investing a little campaign money now to build billions worth of Coast Guard cutters later.
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But the larger and more insidious reason we are talking about Marco Rubio is because his waifish, manufactured brand appeals to a small number of highly influential idiots with billions of dollars to spend fine-tuning a plutocratic system that's immediately responsive to most of their whimsbut not yet all of them. These are the Koch-heads, the sugar barons, the neocon casino magnates, the football-and-car-dealership tycoons, the i-bankers and hedge-funders looking for a soft, supple hand to stimulate their sacks of cash with a youthful wink and a nod to old-fashioned values. Or just opportunistic contractors who see the wisdom in investing a little campaign money now to build billions worth of Coast Guard cutters later.
A good article.
http://gawker.com/get-to-know-marco-rubio-the-biggest-idiot-running-for-1697567638
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Get to Know Marco Rubio, the Biggest Idiot Running for President (Original Post)
immoderate
Apr 2015
OP
Well, if he decides to walk the walk instead of just talking the talk, he'll repatriate to Cuba
Doctor_J
Apr 2015
#7
He was interviewed yesterday on NPR..Cuba. He is determined to sell the same old
Jefferson23
Apr 2015
#8
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)1. I am confident that someone dumber will get in the clown car
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Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)3. Where's your GRAPHIC warning!!!!
I do hope you're right. They need her to complete the clown car.
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)4. There is already one: Ted Cruz the ego maniac.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)5. well I happen to think Rubio is dumber than Cruz
so there.
abakan
(1,819 posts)2. I wonder how some of these clowns manage to dress themselves in the morning. NT
Midnight Writer
(21,815 posts)6. Rubio reminds me very much of Dan Quayle
and I suspect his ambitions are the same; a Vice-President slot. Failing that, a cushy corporate lobbying gig.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)7. Well, if he decides to walk the walk instead of just talking the talk, he'll repatriate to Cuba
and run for president. This will serve two purposes - will make him a hero to his ancestors, and put him first in line to pal up with Adelson, Walton, and Dimon when they corporatize Cuba.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)8. He was interviewed yesterday on NPR..Cuba. He is determined to sell the same old
bullshit meme..old stale rhetoric the neocons always sell.
He is young with an old message.