Recent attacks on Marco Rubio’s voting record, personal finances and perspiration have only really underlined one thing very clearly: Most voters have more in common with the Florida senator than any other wannabe for the presidential nomination — in the GOP or the Democratic field.
Credit card debt and issues? Been there.
Penalties for cashing in a retirement fund. Done that.
Mortgages? Check. Student loans? Check, check.
Foreclosure? More than 7.8 million Americans have lost their homes to foreclosure in the last 10 years since homeownership peaked in 2004. And millions more have had to consider it due to the U.S. economic downturn and the predatory lending that led to the federal bailout of banks.
Donald Trump, Rubio’s biggest detractor, wasn’t one of them — although what he did do was declare bankruptcy for four of his companies.
We don’t have a lot in common with him.
But Rubio is like one of us. More so than any other candidate,
Republican or Democrat. He has a family he dotes on. He plays basketball with his kids in the driveway and throws footballs. He saved for their college education. He drives a truck sometimes. He listens to Nikki Minaj. He went to public school. He sweats and he drinks water.
And whoever is counting his votes in this last year since Rubio’s been campaigning apparently doesn’t know that his constituency — the very people who sent him to Washington, D.C. to represent them — want him to be the next president of the United States. We certainly don’t want him punching a time card. We understand that may mean having to go to New Hampshire for a rally instead of voting on a particular item in which his singular vote makes absolutely no difference because it already won or lost without him. We know that there are sometimes more important things to do than vote on whether or not October should be National Cruise Professionals Month.
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Rubio’s rise in the polls after his stand-out performance in last week’s debate comes with the media scrutiny that often digs up whatever dirt can be dug up — especially on a Republican. As he very eloquently stated last 
week, the mainstream media (except maybe Fox News) serves as a sort of Super PAC for the Democratic Party. Whether they intend to or not, you gotta admit, it sometimes seems that way. Otherwise, why would the Sun-Sentinel call for Rubio’s resignation because of the voting record after having endorsed Barack Obama, who missed more Senate votes in the year he campaigned for the White House?
John Kerry, too, missed more days as did Republican candidate John McCain. As Rubio noted at the MSNBC debate last month, it was never made an issue. Until now.
And guess what? Nobody cares. Because many voters have called in sick for their own jobs when they weren’t really sick at all. How many voters you think
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