Marco Rubio's "water bottle-gate" moment
Updated 9:55 a.m. ET, Feb. 13
In the official GOP rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union speech Tuesday, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., made a passionate case for the limited role of government in American society. But the gist of his message was lost on the Twittersphere about 11 minutes in, when the visibly overheated senator broke away for a quick sip of water.
Rubio, who had mopped his brow a few times previously during the speech, was in the midst of maligning what he called "false choices" Mr. Obama laid out between big government and big business. But he interrupted his thought to grab a small water bottle apparently at his side, ducking down and nearly out of of the camera frame, before taking a sip and continuing with his remarks.
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Commentators immediately pounced: On CNN, Wolf Blitzer was captured saying, "uh oh" as Rubio put the water bottle down again, and gifs of the moment immediately popped up on Twitter.
Rubio, however, acknowledged the incident in a lighthearted post-game tweet of his own -- with a picture of the water bottle in question, along with the hashtag #GOPResponse.
On "CBS This Morning" today, Rubio said he's "just glad the water was nearby. I don't know what I would have done without it."
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OFFICIAL 2012 PRESIDENTIAL GENERAL ELECTION RESULTS
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2012/2012presgeresults.pdf
Obama 65,899,660 51.06%
Romney 60,932,152 47.21%
And the opinions indicate people think he won by a landslide and has a mandate.
Now, since Romney was such slug and scumbag (according to Dems), if he can come this close Rubio will do much better.
He also didn't say anything to grab people's attention and get the media talking, so that made the slip-up the most notable part of the speech. Definitely a missed opportunity in his career and an embarrassing gaffe for Republicans.
How stupid does Rubio think his audience is anyway? Does he think they all listen to Limbaugh and Fox Stupid Channel? Seriously.