Republican Crime Blotter - Mac Attack (UPDATED)

It appears not only does Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio (Tea-FL) have a bellicose foreign policy approach, but someone working for him must think the jaw of an "Ayn" Rand Paul campaign official is ISIS:

A top official for Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign said Friday he was punched in the face by a man working for rival Sen. Marco Rubio at a bar on Mackinac Island, where Republicans are gathered this weekend for a leadership conference.

Grand Rapids consultant John Yob, who is Paul’s national political director, said early Friday he was assaulted in a Mackinac Island bar by a man he and a witness identified as working for Rubio.

“He literally physically assaulted me by punching me in the face,” Yob wrote in a Facebook post. “The state police are looking for him. I have it on video, from multiple angles. This will play out in the national media in the next few hours.”  [snip

Brandon Hall, a conservative blogger from Grand Haven, said Friday he witnessed Yob being punched at Horn’s Gaslight Bar, a popular Mackinac Island watering hole.

“As I was sitting at the bar talking to someone at Horn’s in Mackinac Island Thursday night, I witnessed (the man) suddenly, out of nowhere, approach one of Rand Paul’s advisers, John Yob — unprovoked — and try to hit him,” Hall wrote on his West Michigan Politics blog. “(He) missed a full on shot but still struck Yob’s in the face with a powerful blow near the jaw.”

Who would this (presumably inebriated) Rubio brawler be?

Yes, Rich Beeson, Glug Glug's national campaign manager. He seems like a nice, normal person.  The whole Republican/ New Confederate/ Stupid Party seems like nice, normal people, too.

Postscript:  We hear from the Mackinac police chief Barney Fife Brett Riccinto and Wonkette sums up the entire episode:

"It wasn’t a brawl,” Mackinac Island police chief Brett Riccinto told the Guardian on Friday. “If anything, it was a shove. Literally, it was a shove. This thing has been blown way, way, way out of proportion.”

“Grow up, you withering pansies,” he did not add. Anyway, you boys play nice, because you’ve both got faces only your mothers could refrain from punching. And always remember what you learned in self-defense class: Use your keys as a weapon, and don’t ever be ashamed of calling your moms for help.