Putting the rube in Rubio

[ashling]

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Watching this unfold over 15 minutes, it was hard not to think that if this guy is the GOP's "savior," the party is in deep trouble.

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By any sensible measure, Rubio's entire pitch was incoherent gibberish. He thinks President Obama is hostile to free enterprise and wants to increase the deficit, neither of which makes any sense. Rubio thinks the housing crisis was caused by big government, which is simply idiotic. Rubio celebrates his family's history of dependence on government social programs like student loans and Medicare, while articulating a policy agenda that guts government social programs like student loans and Medicare.

Forget ideology, subjectivity, and areas of opinion -- the fact is Marco Rubio's speech was filled with a series of claims with no meaningful connection to reality. The senator even thinks combating the climate crisis means asking government to "control the weather," which is just genuinely dumb.

I know many of the folks watching Rubio's right-wing infomercial kept asking, "What's wrong with the guy's mouth?" but I kept wondering, "What planet is this guy living on?"

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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/13/16948495-putting-the-rube-in-rubio?lite

[KG]

1. only heard a portion of his drivel. everything he said was a bald-faced lie, totally unsupported

by facts or evidence. it epic even as politicians go...

[Smilo]

2. I think it is great that the Rube

is being pushed to be the "face of Hispanic America" and future president - you would have thought they would have learned with the "face of women of America" Palin - but this is keeping the comedians happy and thereby many of us DU'ers.