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buzzfeed.com / Feb 9. 2016
MANCHESTER, N.H. Millions of people watched Marco Rubios televised tailspin in the opening minutes of last weekends Republican presidential debate but what, exactly, they saw depended on the viewer.
To rivals, Rubios reflexive retreat to the same snippet of well-rehearsed rhetoric over and over, and over, and over again was proof of the freshman senators status as a lightweight. To supporters, the wobbly display was a forgivable fluke, one bad moment blown wildly out of proportion by a bloodthirsty press corps.
But to those who have known him longest, Rubios flustered performance Saturday night fit perfectly with an all-too-familiar strain of his personality, one that his handlers and image-makers have labored for years to keep out of public view. Though generally seen as cool-headed and quick on his feet, Rubio is known to friends, allies, and advisers for a kind of incurable anxiousness and an occasional propensity to panic in moments of crisis, both real and imagined.
This jittery restlessness has manifested itself throughout Rubios life, from high school football games in Miami to high-profile policy fights in Washington and in some ways, its been the driving force in his rapid political rise.
FULL STORY: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/the-anxiety-of-marco-rubio#.qwLDK2jd6B
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Even if I did support his positions that would be a deal-killer for me. But I don't know if it will for his supporters.
flpoljunkie
(26,184 posts)Perhaps he and his people are unaware of this. It seems like a deal breaker to be a president who would tend to panic over things large and small.