Marco Rubio - The Next Clown Emerges From The Republican Clown Car

Steve Benen assesses one-term Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio (Weak Tea-FL), who is announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President tonight:

In some cycles, voters are presented with candidates who embrace a moderate platform, but who win over the party’s base with a combative and confrontational tone. [snip]

Rubio is a great example of the polar opposite – the Florida lawmaker is a fairly radical ideologue who presents himself with a more mild-mannered, congenial posture.

But if one looks past the rhetoric – and the Beltway media’s affection – there’s simply nothing moderate about Rubio’s approach to governing. Rubio, for example, is a climate denier, despite representing Florida. He embraced a far-right line on contraception access and marriage equality. Rubio voted against the Violence Against Women Act. He’s argued that social-insurance programs like Medicare and Social Security “actually weakened us as a people.”

Rubio, who has no meaningful legislative accomplishments to his name after four years in the Senate, believes in debt-ceiling hostage strategies; he sees government shutdowns as a worthwhile tool; he’s rejected the very idea of a federal minimum wage; and he remains convinced that George W. Bush did a “fantastic job” as president.

He recently presented a tax-reform package that includes numbers that don’t quite add up: “Either Rubio is promising to run up bigger deficits than any president in history, or he’s swindling someone.”

Rubio has picked foreign policy as his signature issue, which is a poor choice given that it’s the issue he seems to know the least about.

Let's not forget Glug Glug's expedient, chickenshit abandonment of immigration reform, while we're at it.

Glug Glug has told political fat cats he hopes will bankroll his Presidential run that he is "uniquely qualified" (pause for uncontrolled laughter).  Given the dishonor roll above, the only thing Glug Glug can present for general election voters is his biography, and even there,  some veracity issues have surfaced.

Also, along with Sen. "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz (Crackpot-TX), Glug Glug is the second clown announced Republican candidate to partake, with his family, of that sweet, sweet Obamacare socialized medicine.  You see, he has a pre-existing condition:  dry mouth with complications from acute hypocrisy.