From the 'You Can't Make This Up' file: Marco Rubio: "Voters don't want 'experts'"

[seafan]

This is just off in the stratosphere.



"The republic works and isn’t designed to elect a bunch of experts." ---Marco Rubio
(AP Photos)

From Andy Barr over at Politico:

9/22/10 10:29 AM EDT

Marco Rubio does not see a problem with Christine O'Donnell's past of financial trouble and bizarre quotes, noting that system is not designed to elect “a bunch of experts” to the Senate.

Rubio made the comments in a question and answer session with the Kitchen Cabinet, a conservative women’s group which will post the full interview on their website Wednesday.

“We actually have some people running that are not particularly experienced or maybe as skilled as some, in Delaware for instance, where there are some real questions about Christine O’Donnell,” the group asked Rubio, Florida’s Republican nominee for the Senate.

“The republic works and isn’t designed to elect a bunch of experts,” Rubio responded.

“Really to be an expert in our republic means to know what life is like in the real world,” added Rubio, who did not mention O’Donnell by name in his response. “I think that’s the promising thing of this election.

"I think the more you are in touch with the real lives of everyday people; the better you are going to be as a representative of those people in a Republic.”

Rubio also hit Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the interview, both of whom are Republicans running general election campaigns despite not securing the GOP nomination in their Senate races.

“Candidates who try to play both sides of the issue are going to play very poorly because people recognize that we already have too many opportunists in government and in politics particularly in Washington," Rubio said. “They don’t want to see any more of those sorts of folks winning elections."

View that video clip only if you can stand a slimy, fast-talking pretty boy who is well on his way to a date with the law. And not from merely slipping favorable legislation to his cronies from a leather chair in Tallahassee, either.



Let's see. Marco Rubio sees nothing wrong with Christine O'Donnell's financial red flags.

It's probably because Rubio has a few of his own.


Marco Rubio asserts that voters don't want 'experts' representing them in Washington. Why.... an 'expert' might know what's going on in the real world. Slay us, Rubio.


And Rubio claims that people don't want to elect people like Charlie Crist or Lisa Murkowski, because those people are not pure enough since they are running in the general election without first winning the GOP primary.

He claims there are 'too many opportunists' in politics and that The People will see right through that.


If that's the case, Rubio, you are the best example of political opportunism that anyone could possibly find.