Marco Rubio slams teens as 'infected' by 'arrogance and boasting' as his approval rating plummets

[spanone]

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) was torn apart on live TV last week during a CNN town hall with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivors, and it appears voters were paying attention. In a new Quinnipiac Poll conducted in the days immediately following the town hall, between Feb. 23-26, Rubio held an approval rating of just 38 percent, with 53 percent disapproving of his job in office.

The numbers mark Rubio's lowest approval rating since he joined the Senate in 2011. "Democrats hate every fiber of his being," explains the Miami New Times, "but he's also relatively unpopular amid the far-right Breitbart/Steve Bannon/conspiratorial loon crowd, which hates him for the few centrist stances he's taken in his short career."

With apparently nothing to lose, Rubio slammed teenagers in a tweet Wednesday. "Trashing the Parkland kids like this is probably not going to help those numbers," observed Democratic consultant Brian Fallon.

Link to tweet

The debate after #Parkland reminds us We The People don’t really like each other very much.We smear those who refuse to agree with us.We claim a Judea-Christian heritage but celebrate arrogance & boasting. & worst of all we have infected the next generation with the same disease

http://theweek.com/speedreads/758071/marco-rubio-slams-teens-infected-by-arrogance-boasting-approval-rating-plummets

[bearsfootball516]

1. He's lucky he isn't facing reelection until 2022.

Because he'd be toast if he had to run this year.

[global1]

8. In 2020 More Of Them Will Be Of Voting Age....

They will not forget what he said about them. He'll be voted out.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Rubio is right.

I don't think his fellow Republicans will appreciate the spot-on description of his own party's behavior though.

[Lithos]

3. What a Hypocrite

He's complaining of people catching him in the act of non-compromise and preaching from the mount, all the while self-praising his own non-actions.

L-

[OKNancy]

4. He's so full of excrement

About Obama:
"He has divided this country deliberately for political gain," Rubio (R-Fla.) said Wednesday morning in a campaign speech in Charleston, S.C.. Obama "doesn't believe in the Constitution the way you and I do," Rubio said. He added that Obama doesn't believe in America as a great ...

Another:
attacks Obama for visiting a mosque: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/marco-rubio-obama-mosque-islam/460008/

so much more, but I'm sick of reading about this little twerp

[malaise]

5. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Lil Marco is upset

teenagers made everyone know he's owned by the NRA.

Boo fucking hoo!

[spanone]

7. he's only mad about his ratings

so he attacks children....what an ass.

[bdamomma]

18. rubio just another hypocrite.

he is on the NRA payroll I bet.

[Billy Jingo]

6. Rick Scott was smart not to walk into that buzzsaw

Craven. But smart.

[spanone]

9. this is after almost every kid praised rubio for showing up....fuck the little twerp

[gratuitous]

19. Yeah, he'll wait for the spotlight to move on

Then scurry back to the safety of doing nothing while attention is focused elsewhere. But he is smart not to whack that bee's nest.

[renate]

20. I thought Rubio was brave (and duty-bound) to show up

And I thought Scott was a coward. I dislike them both but at least Rubio was willing to show up and engage in a respectful conversation.

Or so I thought.

[Wednesdays]

10. Republicans are irony impaired. eom

[atreides1]

11. Maybe his remarks at the CNN Town Hall didn't go over too well

Especially when Rubio stated that millions of people "buy into his agenda", never should have used the words 'buy into'!

It's his side that makes the false claim of having a "Judea-Christian&quot he can't even get that right, it's Judeo) heritage, and it's the head of his own party that celebrates arrogance and boasting!!!

[EarlG]

12. So he's saying that it's a crying shame that "we smear those who refuse to agree with us"

and then calling people who disagree with him arrogant, boastful, and infected with a disease.

[spanone]

14. I think that puts it in a nutshell

[blake2012]

13. I predict Twitter and Parkland teens wont react well to this

[oasis]

15. "Arrogance and boasting". But Lil Marco is okay with Trump's behavior.

[spanone]

16. no kidding

[Lint Head]

17. Rubio is pandering to the religious right. Arrogance and boastfulness

are a no no in Christianity. Particularly with young people or children. Those words are code to the religious right. Rubio is inserting religion as if to say Christianity is on his side. What a prick.

This is what he is referring to.

New Heart English Bible
I said to the arrogant, "Do not boast." I said to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn."

[duforsure]

21. Coming from the guy

Who added a provision into the 2016 omnibus bill causing premiums to go up a lot for the people who have the ACA right before the 2016 election. Why are people voting for this liar , and crook.

[DarthDem]

22. He Is So Stupid

It's remarkable.