Marco Rubio’s sudden barrage of spray tan jokes and small dick taunts against Donald Trump isn’t the sign of a candidate who’s personally melting down. It’s the sign of a campaign that sees time running out and has made a calculated decision to get attention by whatever means necessary:
“We came to the conclusion that if being a part of the circus is the price you have to pay in order for us to ultimately be able to talk about substantive policy, then that’s what we’re going to do,” said Todd Harris, a senior Rubio adviser.
Mr. Harris noted that Mr. Rubio’s speeches were now being carried live on television. And if the price of admission, he added, was talking about “how Trump is a con man, with a bad spray tan,” so be it.
The notion that Rubio would otherwise be talking about substantive policy is more than a little amusing, but that’s the benefit of being the establishment’s favored candidate: You get to insinuate that your opponent has a small penis while claiming, with a straight face, to be all about substance yourself.
Rubio still lags badly in most states for which we have polling.