'They voted for somebody they'd never heard of in Barack Obama because he ran on the platform of a very devoted centrist."RTWT at the link.
That's the answer from Marco Rubio when asked about his stunning rise to national prominence as a Republican challenger to a popular Republican officeholder in the key electoral state of Florida. Underlying this strange political season, says Mr. Rubio, is the president's rapid uncloaking in office as anything but the postpartisan that voters thought they had elected.
"Within weeks," says Mr. Rubio, "he began trying to implement what appears to everyone else to be the left-of-center politics of the last 50 years, but in a much more aggressive way, using the excuse of a severe economic downturn as justification for growing and in essence redefining the role of government in America."
The 38-year-old former Florida Speaker of the House is a bundle of energy. He rushes in late from dropping his car off at the shop and is due to pick up his kids from school soon. He talks fast and taps his toe even faster. He's challenging Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in the Republican primary to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Mel Martinez, and his ascent has caught a lot of people by surprise.
Mr. Crist, a popular and successful governor, was considered the heavy favorite. He had been on John McCain's vice presidential short list. He had no trouble collecting Republican establishment endorsements for his Senate bid: the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Sens. Jon Kyl, John Cornyn and Lamar Alexander, to name a few.
Mr. Rubio nods when I mention his former longshot status. "When I got into this race, I understood that all the traditional metrics of politics were against us. Name recognition, money, trappings of office, connections, endorsements, you name it.
"Obviously, things have happened outside of our control since then," he smiles.
RELATED: At the St. Petersburg Times, "Marco Rubio's Lavish Rise to the Top" (via Memeorandum).
Charlie Crist is no longer a popular governor among Republicans---he famously hugged Obama and supported BHO's stimulus until suddenly stimulus became porkulus. Now this serial lying Greek rip-off artist lies on an hourly basis about how he was "never" in favor of the iron bar in the budget house of cards called the "Recovery Act."
ReplyDeleteUnhappily for sad sack of sh*t Crist, dozens of YouTube and MSM citations prove him the liar which his seriatim pledges of support for first Giuliano, then Romney, and finally McCain in '08 demonstrate.
Crist is the classic RINO and is as slippery as the worm he so closely resembles in his lack of moral character and oozing self-righteous opportunism.
There's only one person Crist always faithfully supports---Charlie Crist, the man of a thousand faces.