Little Marco is scared. Boo hoo.

[bluescribbler]

https://theberkshireedge.com/i-witness-marco-rubio-is-scared-to-death-what-took-him-so-long/

One of the most fascinating aspects of observing politics over the past 10 years has been the capitulation of formerly principled Republican legislators to the insanity of Donald John Trump.

Although Marco Rubio is hardly the only exemplar of cowardice in a political party that surrendered its own authority as a coequal branch of government to a deranged bully, he is as good an illustration of their spinelessness as any.

Marco Rubio is the child of Cuban refugees, so he knows exactly how dangerous a dictator—like Castro, say, or Xi, or Kim, or Putin—is to the health and welfare of the citizens living within an autocracy. This makes his transformation from champion of liberty to subservient invertebrate particularly stunning.

Once upon a time, Rubio was an ardent anti-communist, meaning anti-Xi, anti-Putin, anti-Kim. He was also a proponent of PEPFAR, USAID, and other humanitarian programs, because he understood the value of global soft-power to the national interest of the United States, to say nothing of the fact that it is morally repugnant to withhold food, water, and medicine from starving children.

More at link.

[Wingus Dingus]

1. How easily people switch sides. Instantly.

[modrepub]

5. Politicians Do That Regularly

with their perceived changes in the wind.

It's my opinion that politicians are utterly incapable of solving most people's problems. Probably, because they are so far removed from what most people experience that they basically have no clue.

[Walleye]

2. And the only institution that can save us now is the Republican Congress, that quivering mass of protoplasm

[Bev54]

3. Truthfully, I have always seen Rubio as a scared little boy. He winces and whimpers at every

meeting, let alone a confrontation. I don't think there is even a thing called a principled republican.

[Ocelot II]

4. If Little Marco had two vertebrae left to rub together,

he'd have stood up at that meeting and said, "This is bullshit, I quit," apologized to Zelenskyy, and walked out. But then, if my aunt had wheels she'd be a pastry cart.

[Docreed2003]

6. As John Fugelsang said on a post on IG

Rubio sank so far into that couch I was honestly afraid JD Vance might f*ck him.

[onethatcares]

7. but Marco holds town halls

He just leaves them in the hands of an aide and doesn't show up. A real portrait in courage he is.....

[milestogo]

9. Now that he's SOS, he's a weenie.

[bluescribbler]

10. He has been a weenie since

Since he "suspended" his campaign and endorsed tsf.