http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/25/marco-rubios-road-to-ruin-was-paved-with-less-than-stellar-intentions/
Remember back to the beginning of the year when Marco Rubio was touted as “The Republican Savior” on the cover of TIME magazine? The accompanying article outlined how Rubio planned to sell immigration reform to his party. It also included a message that had been left on Rubio’s voice mail by his mother, Oriales García Rubio:
Tony, some loving advice from the person who cares for you most in the world. Don’t mess with the immigrants, my son. Please, don’t mess with them. They’re human beings just like us, and they came for the same reasons we came. To work. To improve their lives. So please, don’t mess with them.
His failure has been gradual but undeniable as he tries to cater to Tea Party ideology and the realities of the Hispanic voters. Now a Rasmussen poll shows his approval rating at 58%, which sounds pretty good until you realize that in May it was 68% and in February, Rubio’s popularity had him at around 73 percent. How hath the mighty fallen? Let’s take a look…
Before the State Of The Union reply, Marco Rubio was the GOP’s great Latino hope. Then he went on the air… and he did okay until about 2/3 of the way in when he got really thirsty and, in this age of social media, the result was disastrous. That fumble for the water did him in, upstaging the real problem with his speech: it was patently false in content. He eventually blamed God for the gaffe. No, really.
After that, his missteps began to pile up. In mid-February, he went on CBS This Morning and talked about how minimum wage laws “have never worked.” Then he tried to make light of his SOTU rebuttal gaffe by selling bottled water (for $25 a bottle!) to raise funds for his PAC: “Ha ha – see? I can laugh at myself.” But it didn’t go over very well among the Latino voters he was aiming for. He did manage to raise $100K from the GOP base, all of which went directly into his PAC.the desperate republicans who pick their candidates by how much vitriol they can spew, chose him and IMO he started believing is own press, he was the golden boy, it got good to him and he started telling the truth about his party and there was his first step onto the slippery slope where his new celebrity was moving faster then he could adjust to and now he's not the golden boy just the lead base republican poisoning his ascension who had too much nerve for his short career.
