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Post by duke on Feb 13, 2013 12:25:14 GMT -5
Marco Rubio, Substitute Teacher By Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast 13 February 10 He wasn't bad. It wasn't a failure. And I don't think he's a complete lightweight. He gave a good speech at the GOP convention. But he didn't succeed last night at all. Two reasons. First, Quixote-like, he kept tilting at the right-wing caricature of Obama that only right-wingers buy into. I doubt very strongly at this point that most Americans will just sit there listening to how Barack Obama opposes the free enterprise system and think that it makes sense to them. No. It doesn't. The R's could sell middle Americans on that idea when the memory of the stimulus was fresh, and when the jobless rate was 9 percent. But with things getting better, that's a story that only conservatives believe. They make the error of continuing to believe that others believe it. Second, and this isn't really his fault but just the way it is, he doesn't have the gravitas yet. His voice doesn't have enough depth to it. He looks sort of young, as many have observed, but he sounds younger, and that's the issue. He comes across like the proverbial substitute teacher. You know you can throw spitballs in his class, and he's not going to have the authority to make you stop. <snip> Backed up, I should note, by right-wing reality. Yesterday afternoon, Rubio was one of just 22 senators to vote against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. Nice. Savior? He has a long way to go.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/16002-marco-rubio-substitute-teacher
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