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.

[liberal N proud]

1. We must lower the bar?

Do that and we get another bu$h!

[old mark]

19. How low can you go? Palin for VP?...the bar is scraping the fucking floor! nt

[Dappleganger]

2. And if FL voters don't get to the polls and vote this November

we have elected Stupid by default.

[Roland99]

3. Rubio, Terrorist Party whack-jobs, & GOP asshats in general don't have the FIRST CLUE to REAL LIFE!

tax cuts for corporations and the rich is their ONE AND ONLY platform.

It's failed for 30 years but they're still trying to convince America that it's the only way that works.



Total.


INSANITY.

[joeybee12]

4. He's actually right, most people enter the voting booth asking themselves, "Now let me see

which is the dumberst mutherphucker on the planet I can cast my vote for."

[bluestateguy]

5. In fact the Framers wanted the Senate to be made up of wise, mature, statesmanlike experts

Whereas, the House would be made up of petulant politicians who spout populist nonsense to keep getting elected.

[Qutzupalotl]

6. Marco Rube?

And since when is a professional senate candidate fund embezzler in touch with everyday people?

[unblock]

7. i can never remember -- who was it who said stupid people deserve representation, too?

[david13]

8. He's right, tho'. It's reflected in the title "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life"

by Richard Hofstatler.
A book from 1962 or so. It was the same criticism that was made of Adlai Stevenson back in the 50's. He was a "college professor".
That was supposed to be a dirty word, because the average idiot american don't want no pointy head for a prezident.
It was also how bu$h got elected. Playing the fool, the idiot, shrugging his shoulders and grunting like a moron.
It did indeed surprise me that Barack Obama, who talks like an intelligent person, using logic and good speech, was elected.
dc

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. He's right about the Florida voter.

They don't want to think too hard or study data. They base everything on relationships. There are people here who proudly take leadership of homeowner boards based on their relationships and reject the crazy idea of spending a week in City hall looking at public records to reach their own conclusions.

[marew]

11. Thanks a lot for painting everyone in Fl with the same brush! n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. LOL!

Sorry about that. My red county is pretty bad, but I'm learning that other parts are just as bad. If there is a Haight Ashbury in Florida, I don't know where it is. Don't say the Keys. There is probably as much anti-hispanic sentiment there as anywhere else.

[marew]

10. Experts!?!

We're looking for competence. O'Donnell is the ultimate grifter. Talk about milking the system! She's been living off those crazy enough to support her for years but would cut SS in a heartbeat to those who have spent decades putting in tens of thousands of dollars.

[seafan]

12. Today's front pages of the St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune

Behold, the epitome of fiscal and personal responsibility, now running for US Senate in Florida.

“The republic works and isn’t designed to elect a bunch of experts.” ----Marco Rubio, in an interview with Kitchen Cabinet, a conservative women's group

And in that twisted, right-wing extremist Tea Party mindset, Rubio feels he is quite fit for the job.











Actually, it's the large part of 2 decades of iron-fisted Republican occupation of Florida state government that is the largest threat to our recovery.

[yella_dawg]

13. He's absolutely correct.

In fact, he's living proof that moronic and subservient toadies do well in politics.

[KaryninMiami]

14. Sadly, that "slimy, fast-talking pretty boy" is probably going to win

Neither Crist nor Meek appear to be gaining the momentum to beat him. And none of the charges against him are sticking- he finds a way to slime himself out of them and the media is more focused on Crist frankly, these days. Maybe this will be the year I leave move out of Florida.

[OHdem10]

16. This is what is wrong. During the Republican Adm. they were

hands off--no oversight---No experts therefore there
was no one to say --wait, this may take us into dangerous
territory.

As long as you have the Republicans and their Anti-Intellectualism
expect things to get worse.

Keep the people ignorant and you can manipulate them with fear.

Some of their candidates illustrate--no experts needed.

[eppur_se_muova]

17. Experts ?!? **Pffffft!*** Whadda THEY know ?

One of my favorite Homerisms, ever.

[MrScorpio]

18. A natural extension of GOP anti-intellectualism

And Rubio is its evangelist