Rubio: "I Do" Think I'm Ready To Be President

by JASmius

That's what you think, Marc:

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, a potential Republican White House candidate in 2016, said "I do" on Sunday when asked if he thinks he is ready to be president, noting that even though he is just 42 he has held public office for about 14 years.

<sigh>  Three years and change in the Senate, eleven years in the Florida state legislature.  That's akin to saying that Marco Rubio's ambition is its own qualification.  It isn't remotely enough.  He's not remotely ready to be president.

In other words, Barack Obama Syndrome.  If you're a minority, just get yourself elected to the Senate and start running for president thirty-five seconds after you arrive there and tell people "I'm ready to lead from behind in the Second World!"  If there were to be a post-Obama era, what on Earth makes anybody believe that voters would take another such lark?  Or that it would work for a Republican?

BOS also extends to Senator Rubio not being constitutionally eligible (Article II, Section 1, paragraph 5) for the presidency as his father was not a naturalized U.S. citizen when his son was born.  Anybody who thinks the Democrats wouldn't point that out at the top of their lungs out of fear of charges of hypocrisy simply has not been paying attention.

And do I really have to remind one and all once again that the road to the White House has never run through the U.S. Senate unless the opponent was also a senator?

Then there is this:

Rubio, a first-term senator from Florida who has fallen out of favor with many in his party's right wing over his support for a bipartisan immigration measure in the Senate last year, has been an active potential contender for his party's nomination.

True, John McCain got the nod in 2008 despite his years of trying to shove amnesty down Republican throats (among other heresies).  But Maverick had been in the Senate since approximately the last ice age, and he was the "next in line".  It was his "turn" in the general election barrel.  Senator Rubio has neither of those factors going for him.  Whereas he does have the crippling disadvantage of being the token Latino face of the latest amnesty push.  Not a favorable combination.

Do yourself and everybody else a favor, Marc - stay in the Senate at least until the Florida governorship opens up, get yourself elected to that office, and serve a couple of terms before you roll out this ambition again.  You may end up being the GOP's last line of defense against Julian Castro in 2024.

Assuming nobody still remembers, or gives a rat's ass about, Article II, Section 1, paragraph 5, that is.