Why Marco Rubio Is Dumb

"Marco Rubio is the kind of candidate that appeals to low info voters," said MSNBC host Ed Schultz. "In fact, he's a low-info candidate."

Schultz made his point by showing video of Rubio on CNN claiming deepwater drilling is safe, as a live feed of the Deep Horizon leak played in the background. Only someone very dense would go on TV to make the bogus claim about deepwater drilling being safe during an environmental crisis. Rubio was asked by the editorial board of the The Daily News about the Navy not wanting offshore drilling to interfere with operations. Rubio was clueless about the Navy's concerns and said he would look into it. Rubio has still not said how he plans to have drilling off the coast of Florida without interfering with Navy operations.

I have been describing Rubio as an economic iliterate since 2007. Rubio told radio host Jim Defede working class people live off "other people's leftover money." Rubio really believes trickle down economics theories that have been discredited by economists. Rubio's 12 Ideas are failed George W. Bush tax policies; such as extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. Rubio fails to mention how he is going to be a fiscal hawk by extending the Bush tax cuts. The Congressional Budget Office numbers show the Bush tax cuts helped create the deficit.

Beltway reporters such as Ezra Klein and Dave Weigel say Republicans admit TARP was needed and the tax cuts created the deficit. These same elected Republicans will tell tea baggers Bush's TARP is entirely President Obama's fault and say more tax cuts are needed. That kind of hypocrisy is nothing new in politics. What concerns me about Rubio is he is so willfully ignorant that he actually believes most of the stuff he rants on about. Someone that stupid does not belong in public office.