I wrote last week how disgusting it is for a man who clearly hated his job and who didn't do his job to stand on the corpses of 50 dead people as an excuse to run again. But it gets worse.
Marco Rubio thought he'd have some strong job prospects when he dropped out of the presidential race, but that didn't pan out. Looking for an excuse to get back in the Senate race, he said he felt a call to action because of the Orlando massacre—which I guess meant voting down every single reasonable proposal last week to keep assault rifles out of the hands of people on the terror watch list (including the one used in Orlando, which fired at a rate of 3,200 feet per second). He can add that shame to his fighting every single LGBT protection. Some call to action. Thanks, asshole.
But Marco didn't just want to exploit the massacre for his own personal gain. He also wanted it to seem like he was reluctant to get back in the race, but had no choice because GOP leaders would proclaim they needed him to run—for God and country—so the whole thing wouldn't come off as smarmy as it all is.
Rubio put out a statement where he said, "So I’ll go home later this week, and I’ll have some time with my family, and then if there’s been a change in our status I’ll be sure to let everyone know.”
By "family time," he meant reaching out to several GOP senators to ask that they beg him to get back in the race so his shameless exploitation of a tragedy would come off more noble. The problem here is that some of them blabbed about what he was doing:
According to two aides briefed on the Tuesday phone call, Rubio asked Cruz to blast out a statement urging Rubio to run for reelection, “so it’s not just Mitch [McConnell]” asking him to do so, as one aide described it.
Those aides say Cruz declined, as he didn’t want to be accused of nudging out US Representative Ron DeSantis, the tea-party favorite in the race for Rubio’s seat. The aides say that Senator Mike Lee of Utah echoed that concern after Rubio approached him with the same request. A Lee aide confirmed that this conversation took place.
Smarmy doesn’t begin to describe Marco Rubio.