| Waterboy Republican Marco Rubio pulls a Bobby Jindal and blows his SOTU response. | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 13 2013, 05:10 AM (348 Views) | |
| Mal | Feb 13 2013, 05:10 AM Post #1 |
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The State of the Union drinking game has become a political media cliche, and while delivering tonight’s official Republican rebuttal to President Obama‘s address, so did Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). Tasked with the unfortunate duty of delivering one of the Republican rebuttals, Rubio spent most of his rebuttal alternately attacking the President, and whining about how mean Obama is to Republicans. The rebuttal, though, will be best remembered for a hilariously awkward mid-speech drink, where he reached for a bottle of water mid sentence looking like a fool. It will surely cement the Curse of the SOTU Republican Rebuttal. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/historic-thirst-marco-rubio-becomes-his-own-state-of-the-union-drinking-game/ Of course twitter was full of great water jokes afterwards. Rubio going the way of Jindal - just slightly more nervous and with a little bit more sweat.— Stephanie Cutter (@stefcutter) February 13, 2013 Jesus walked on water. Rubio drank it #saviors (ok, done)— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) February 13, 2013 MT @mmurraypolitics: Rubio is a very fine speaker, but tonight was a reminder why giving the SOTU response is a tough assignment— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 13, 2013 As I was saying… RT @joshmcelveen Marco Rubio “These pretzels are making me thirsty.”— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) February 13, 2013 Rubio is generally a very, very good speaker. But that was not it.— Taegan Goddard (@politicalwire) February 13, 2013 Marco Rubio takes a panicked swig of water — again and again gifboom.com/x/99f8db90— Salon.com (@Salon) February 13, 2013 The Rubio water thing is the move that launched a 1,000 .gifs.— The Fix (@TheFix) February 13, 2013 Well delivered story telling for Rubio but at once sweating and thirsty. Did that happen in Spanish version?— Kelly O’Donnell (@KellyO) February 13, 2013 If Rubio had chugged a Shiner Bock instead of fru-fru bottled water, he might have my vote.— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) February 13, 2013 Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/marco-rubios-drinking-problem-87562.html#ixzz2KliJaPgY |
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| Whozthatgurl | Feb 14 2013, 01:44 AM Post #2 |
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That was funny as hell when Rubio took that swig of water. He looked so guilty. Some republicans on Youtube were saying "We just lost 2016". But you are right Mal, all he did was Blame Obama and quoted everything that Mitt Romney said on the campaigne trail. Even Latinos were slamming him as the "water boy" for the republicans. Many of them said that they didn't trust him because he was Cuban and most Cubans support the republican party. Also Cubans are the only Latino group that benefits from the "WET FEET DRY FEET " policy. |
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| Mal | Feb 14 2013, 05:55 AM Post #3 |
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Rubio is just not ready for primetime, instead of going down in flames, he went down with a sip of water. Love what the Daily Beast are saying about Rubio. Marco Rubio, Substitute Teacher. 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. Rubio can only take being the brown face of the GOP so far, he lacks empathy, smarts and the knack to stay in the centre. |
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| Whozthatgurl | Feb 15 2013, 03:53 AM Post #4 |
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Of course he lacks empathy, his experience is not like other Latinos who fled their homelands to come here for a better life. His parents told a lie to him about coming to America. They told him that they fled Cuba because of the revolution which was in 1959. The fact is that his family came to the United States in 1956 before the revolution and Rubio used this lie to get elected. |
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