Marco Rubio Deserves Ivanka Trump

[Zorro]

Will the senator’s sycophancy and shape-shifting come to naught?

By Frank Bruni

It’s a measure of the Republican Party’s current depravity that I think of the period when Marco Rubio was besmirching Donald Trump’s genitalia as the good old days.

It was early 2016, Trump hadn’t yet locked down the Republican presidential nomination and Rubio, smarting from Trump’s nickname for him (“Little Marco’) and cracks about his overactive sweat glands, began pointing voters toward Trump’s private parts.

“He’s, like, 6-2, which is why I don’t understand why his hands are the size of someone who’s 5-2,” Rubio told voters at a campaign rally in late February that year. “Have you seen his hands? And you know what they say about men with small hands.”

In that age of innocence, we were talking and even laughing about the nether regions of Republican anatomy. Five years later, we’re talking and most certainly not laughing about the nether regions of Republican morality, which Rubio plumbs as shamelessly as his more exposed Senate colleagues Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/opinion/sunday/marco-rubio-ivanka-trump.html

Little Barko never wanted to remain a senator, anyway.

[notinkansas]

1. Maybe he does,

but do we really wish Ivanka on Florida? I'm sure there are good people there.

[Vogon_Glory]

2. I half-hope that Ivanka wins

It would get Little Marco out of the Senate and loosen the grip the Florida Republican Party has on the Latino voters of South Florida. On the other hand, statewide Florida political races are starting to look like those in Texas—where an overmatched state party goes up against a Goliath and gets curb-stomped. I did not expect MJ Hegar to lose to Cornball and I fear a similar trounce next year when one of the good guys goes up against Gregg Abbott.