"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.
"Someone that stupid does not belong in public office"
ReplyDeleteWhy just pick on Rubio, your article pretty much describes 99.9% of GOP leadership, and 100% of their constituency / base. Most American media pushes the fresh face as if it represents change in some way, when in fact the people that continue to emerge for leadership roles are nothing more then predetermined entities that have already been vetted for the various positions by the political elites and string pullers.
Rubio is nothing more then a 'Jeb!' sock puppet, and literally cut from the cloth of never to die south Florida 'Batista' cult, not unlike his predecessor Mel, although I believe Rubio is tied much more closer to the old 'ruling families'.
Stupidity is to be counted on, all the way around...Rubio is a product of entitlement through the mechanisms of the most corrupt political system I have seen (at the surface) during my lifetime in Florida. Yes, I agree, he does not really know what he is talking about...and the real reason is, is because he is not his own man, and really does not have a vision for the 'people' of Florida, except in a second hand way. The fact that Rubio could even make a statement about working Americans 'living off of others monies' is testament to whom he really works for...and it ain't the average Joe.
Ben
Odessa
"The Republican hold on South Florida Cubans is dying."
ReplyDeleteThat is what the pollsters are saying these days, and I only hope it is true (it has been over 50 years!)
There are still old family hold outs and some that were connected higher up the food chain that have stuck together for years...I am not sure Rubio comes from one of these old families, but I have read that he does. Nevertheless, they are rapidly becoming a shrunk minority that not many care to listen to these days. As you state, the younger generation views the old country from a separate reality. So, much of the right-wing old guard rhetoric is probably viewed as irrelevant by most young Cuban Americans today.
I like your blog, and the depth of effort you go to in discussing so much of the detail and nuance that gets steamrolled everyday in average media, so thanks for your insights and hard work. Florida is a mess, we need all the debate and sunshine on our government available, keep up the great writing.
Ben
Odessa
Thanks for the imput, Ben.
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