It’s time to wonder if there's a point—any point at all—at which our fine national media will highlight the fact that one of our two political parties has gone absolutely batshit insane.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) responded to a man who shouted "waterboard Hillary!" at a presidential campaign event Tuesday by appearing to jokingly suggest that he didn't hear what was said and laughing off the remark.
The decades-long conservative hatred for Hillary Clinton has been amazing. And inexplicable. Even when she was a first lady, conservative "media" gorged themselves on theories ranging from her murdering people to how she was trafficking cocaine to everything else. Whatever some villain was doing on Miami Vice that week, the Matt Drudges of the world would soon come up with headlines about how it was really Hillary Clinton all along. She was apparently too outspoken for a proper first lady, or something. That sudden willingness of conservatives to drag each and every lunatic's conspiracy theory from the sewer onto the news pages may have been the initial shudders of the furiously angry know your place-ism that brought the Republican Party en masse to a screeching governmental halt when faced with the nation's first non-white president.
Where were we? Oh, right. Sen. Marco Rubio, being presidential as his clever but insane supporters suggest waterboarding the real enemy—meaning some Democrat, somewhere.
Many in the crowd quickly reacted to his comment with a laugh. Rubio appeared to laugh it off as well.
"I don’t want to know what he said," responded Rubio, adding: "The press is here, I didn’t even hear what they — I didn’t hear what they said. I know it wasn’t a bad word, that’s all that matters."
Yeah, whatever. Thanks for standing up for decorum and all that.