With nothing else to do between now and the conventions, the lazy media assigned to the Presidential campaign are rolling out fawning, fluffy features and unsubstantiated speculation.
Like this ridiculous valentine to Baby Marco Rubio from Susan Page at USA Today. Once again, a credulous member of the press — who should know better, by the way — is peddling the quick-fix-for-the-GOP's-problem-with-Hispanics line.
Why should Page know better? Because she's been around long enough to have some institutional memory. How many "quick fixes" has the Republican Party touted for the minority groups it's hostile to over the years?
Remember Mel Martinez? That lamebrain quit the Senate before his term was up. Remember George W. Bush? He was supposed to "get it" as far as the Latino vote was concernbed, but he did nothing on immigration for eight years. Remember Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and J.C. Watts? All were supposed to be GOP saviors, official Republican ambassadors to their respective racial and ethnic enclaves. Yeah, that worked out.
How many saviors does a political party need? Why not just dump the racism and the window dressing and concentrate on good policy instead?
And now it appears that the Baby Marco veep hype may be just a wee bit overblown. (Then again, if the Romneybots aren't vetting him, maybe it means they are considering him.)
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