Marco Rubio desperately trying to clean his image to prep for VP slot. [View all]

from the Politico..

With his name still simmering in the GOP veepstakes, the Florida Republican and his staff are spending an extraordinary amount of time, money and effort to define himself on the national stage before his political enemies — and a probing press corps — do it first.

He’s racing to publish his memoirs, though they won’t be out until this fall, months after a more critical Rubio biography by a Washington Post reporter hits bookshelves.

When Rubio got word last month a reporter had learned he attended the Mormon Church as a child, the senator’s publisher quickly leaked that fact to Rubio’s hometown newspaper.

Rubio has even hired investigators to look into his own background, since he knows Democrats are doing the same. His political action committee paid a firm more than $40,000 to conduct opposition research on Rubio, and it’s preparing to spend thousands more to dig into family stories, financial documents and real estate records — anything that could pop up in a political “oppo” file.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73908.html

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I think the GOPer establishment have conveyed the message to Rubio that if he wants the be VP nominee he has to deal with these controversies.