Marco Rubio, Republicans Turn Their Lonely Eyes to You

More and more roadside crosses are appearing on the clown car's route to the convention in Cleveland. Rick Perry, Scott Walker, gone. Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee relegated to the kid's table debate. Ben Carson has become a national joke, his ideas no different than the average lunatic on the street corner (pyramids stored grain?) With only a year to go to the election, Republicans who have any sense are panicking.

With Carson, Donald Trump, and Carly Fiorina near the top of the polls, and all of them surefire losers, what's a party in tatters supposed to do? From what I've been reading from Republican pundits, there's no need for alarm, as the electorate will consolidate on Marco Rubio. He supposedly won the last debate (I don't watch them, as life is too short) and he got some billionaire's support. He's young, attractive, and Hispanic, and most importantly, electable. I must admit his nomination would make this Democrat sweat.

Rubio, though, is a nest of lies and obfuscation. For one thing, anyone in this day and age who thinks the Earth is only six-thousand years old ought to be disqualified from any office, let alone President of the United States. Rubio also lied about when his parents arrived in Cuba. They were not fleeing Castro, but instead came in 1956. Rubio's reply was "The real essence of my family's story is not about the date my parents first entered the United States. Or whether they traveled back and forth between the two nations. Or even the date they left Fidel Castro's Cuba forever and permanently settled here. The essence of my family story is why they came to America in the first place, and why they had to stay." Which is sort of like saying "Facts are stupid things."

Rubio has also has some slippery behavior concerning a credit card given to him by the Republican National Committee of Florida, which he used for personal reasons (including a $124 haircut, which isn't as bad as John Edwards $400 haircut). He is scrambling a bit after that one, saying it was "charge" card and not a credit card, as if that makes any difference, and that he paid it all back. But using a company card for personal reasons would be grounds for dismissal in corporate America.

But most of all Rubio, despite his youthful good looks and child of immigrant status, is just another conservative troglodyte. For one thing, his position on immigration is complicated. He is the child of immigrants, the kind of immigrants one presumes he would be against coming to America today. He helped write a bill that ease the pathway to citizenship for immigrants, but then turned his back on it, no doubt being advised to do so because the Tea Party is against it, saying immigration should be stopped. I love these guys who get in and then say the door should be closed behind them.

He was against renewing the Violence Against Women Act, is opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest, and is opposed to same-sex marriage. He is Catholic, yet rejects certain opinions by the Pope, making him a true salad bar Catholic, picking and choosing what he wants to believe. He is against the decriminalization of marijuana. In short, he is behind the curve of history, and would slow social progress in this country.

There is not a lot of poll evidence to suggest that Rubio will be the guy, but if the establishment does succeed in dumping Trump and Carson, then I agree he will be the one, as Jeb Bush has shown to be a very poor candidate and Ted Cruz is far too polarizing. If the Republicans do have any sense they would try to fob off Rubio as the future of America. He could select someone like John Kasich as running mate to try to get Ohio (Mike Pence of Indiana is another possibility).

But then I would enjoy watching Hillary Clinton (or Bernie Sanders) destroy him in a debate, while his throat gets dry and he needs bottle after bottle of water.