Be forewarned. This post is offensive. The Republican party has decided that the reason they lost the presidential election in 2012 is because they did not expect so many urban people (read Hispanics) to vote. This seems to me a tacit admission that they know how unlikable they are outside of their base (i.e, angry old white men).
Despite the fact that some of their best friend is black, they've written off that constituency. That being said, what follows is a true story, albeit about an untrue story:
I have been telling people that Marco Rubio is not actually Marco Rubio. I have been telling them, instead, that his name is Marc Rubin. We all know the story. Rubio's parents fled Castro's Cuba 4 years before Castro (maybe they were threatened by the convertible giant). The Rubio family did not live in Florida, Marc Rubin grew up in New Jersey. Prior to their exodus from Cuba they lived in Russia and their name was Rubinowitz (Rubinovich).
When I tell people this, the response I get most often is, "Really?" No. I made it all up. There is not a shred of evidence that what I said is true. Who cares? Isn't that insane? Marco Rubio, the savior du jour of the Republican party, whose primary responsibility is to convince hispanic voters that xenophobic Republicans' best friend is Latino, might actually be Jewish, and his parents changed their names because they knew 50 years later it would be politically more expedient to be Rubio than Rubin.
I don't get a "that's ridiculous!" from them. I get , "Really?" In this environment I wonder if I could reasonably get into a debate about the last unicorn to win a triple crown race. Visit my website (which does not actually exist) www.notgonnahappen.com. I've also not registered the domain name with dot org and dot net.
On a final note, let me be the first to take a stand against "Girtherism." Governor Christie is fat. We get it. That alone does not disqualify him from being President. He does not need to show us his medical records. He does not need to step on a scale. On the left we are supposed to be more tolerant of things. Let us prove it by denouncing girtherism in all its forms.