This is What Happens When You Mess with Marco Rubio
Troy Senik ·
May 4, 2011 at 10:38am
Consider this my contribution to our earlier conversation about schadenfreude:
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Feb '11
Re: This is What Happens When You Mess with Marco Rubio
If there had only been the sound of an ambulance siren in the background.
Jun '10
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Oh my!!! Most slimeball politicians are more discrete in their out-of-office money grabbing. This is amazing. Next we'll see footage of him lingering around hospital ememergency rooms handing out his business card.
Jul '10
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All that's lacking is the fishnet stockings, garter belt and push-up bra.
Mar '11
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I hope the same fate awaits Harry Reid.
Edited on May 4, 2011 at 11:07amRe: This is What Happens When You Mess with Marco Rubio
Personal injury attorneys are an essential part of the legal system and do important work. We actually have quite a few PI attorneys in the Ricochet community. I'd point out that it isn't so much Crist's new profession that makes this ad so funny, but the fact that he's reduced to a position of hucksterism after being served up such a crushing defeat by Rubio.
Apr '11
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Charlie Crist, ambulance chaser.
#WINNING!
Oct '10
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Not much to say. Once I stop laughing I might think of something... but I know I won't top this.
Jun '10
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"We actually have quite a few PI attorneys in the Ricochet community."
If any of them would stoop so low as to appear in or advertise on cheesy TV commercials, or hang around the ER, they, too, would deserve ridicule.
No one would dispute that personal injury is a valid legal specialty. But sadly it is populated with more unethical attorneys than most. Just as we often ask why moderate Muslims aren't speaking out about Islamic terrorists, we have to ask why the personal injury law field isn't policing itself. There are virtually no disciplinary actions taken against the bad apples.
Recognizing the need for tort reform is a foundation of conservatism.
May '10
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Could you please elaborate on that? Is this because outrageous damages feed into a culture of victimology? Or because it's a form of wealth redistribution?
I'm as disgusted as the next guy by the large awards granted for every little owie, but I've never thought of it as foundational to conservatism.
Feb '11
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Fabulous! Dude needs a bumper-sticker
Oct '10
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Ottoman Umpire
Could you please elaborate on that? Is this because outrageous damages feed into a culture of victimology? Or because it's a form of wealth redistribution?
One of the Conservative goals in tort reform is to require the initiator of a lawsuit to pay the attorneys fees for the winner if the initiator loses. That would mean that the party responsible for the action eats the cost of it if he loses. Personal responsibility, and the end of contingency lawsuits, except in cases where a "sure win" can be expected. Think class action, where an attorney can sue on behalf of tens of thousands of "claimants", each of which will wind up with a check for $17.50 if the suit is won, and the lawyers get tens of millions for their work. The downside for them now is wasting time the same way they would in Vegas. If they were held accountable if they lose, then this stuff would end.
Sounds like a conservative goal to me.
Re: This is What Happens When You Mess with Marco Rubio
Sticker,
An extremely apt analogy. By which I mean I'm stealing it, of course.
StickerShock: No one would dispute that personal injury is a valid legal specialty. But sadly it is populated with more unethical attorneys than most. Just as we often ask why moderate Muslims aren't speaking out about Islamic terrorists, we have to ask why the personal injury law field isn't policing itself. There are virtually no disciplinary actions taken against the bad apples.
May 4 at 12:09pm
Aug '10
Re: This is What Happens When You Mess with Marco Rubio
Next stop - Free Credit Score .com . With guitar or pirate outfit.
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I'd like to see him do the Sham Wow! commercials, m'self.
May '10
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Diane Ellis, Ed.
I'd like to see him do the Sham Wow! commercials, m'self. · May 4 at 1:24pm
And Mystic spray tan.
Aug '10
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Unbelievable. I am defending several cases filed by Morgan & Morgan and I am surprised I haven't seen his name on the letterhead yet. Or, for that matter, being so close to Florida, I'm surprised I haven't seen that ad. But then again, when those ads play, I am usually at work. Not sitting at home watching TV thinking about suing someone.
Aug '10
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Personal Injury work is a fairly substantial part of my practice, but only part. Thankfully, my professional rules don't allow me to advertise.
Nov '10
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Sweeet.....
My only complaint: this brings Crist and the climber to whom he is married into my neck of the woods.
Sep '10
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Diane Ellis, Ed.
I'd like to see him do the Sham Wow! commercials, m'self. · May 4 at 1:24pm
I think he'd make a spiffy replacement for The Man From Glad.
Dec '10
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Frankly, I don't think lawyers should hold political office -- conflict of interest. Every law produces a great benefit to the entire legal profession.
In order to enforce this, I would not use the law, but would use the barrier to entry that the legal profession regularly uses to enforce its oligarchy, the bar association.
I would require that any official who reaches elective or appointed office outside of the Attorney General's office must permanently give up his or her law license.