‘Am I a Man or a Mouse?’ WTH Ever Happened to ‘Little Marco?’

Full disclosure: I've always liked Marco Rubio. I thought that his backstory was incredibly inspiring, and thought that the 2016 brouhaha initiated by Chris Christie ("Who's he?" the younger among you may ask) was undeserved and completely self-serving.

Chris Christie, who was also running for president at the time, chose to make fun of Rubio's repeated assertions that Barack Obama "knows exactly what he's doing," at a time in which most of the Republican primary candidates (Lord knows why) were saying that the effects of Obama's policies on the country were the result of incompetence rather than malice.

Does anyone think, in 2025, that was actually the case?

Where do I begin? So funny in so many ways, from the start, when Rubio says:

I will say that if policy becomes, or politics becomes, who's been in the Senate the longest, we should all rally around Joe Biden. He's been around a thousand years. He's passed hundreds of bills. And I don't think any of us believe that Joe Biden should be President of the United States. And lets dispense, once and for all, with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. Barack Obama is undertaking a systematic attempt to change this country, to make America more like the rest of the world."

Does anyone think, in 2025, that either of these things was not actually the case?

Unfortunately for Rubio, his timing and his social media affect were poor.

Christie was, at the time, perhaps the leader in the running for the media's most mavericky Republican presidential candidate since John McCain had secured the nomination in 2008. So the media felt justified in lining up behind Christie, and found themselves free to cover him with drooling affection, while waiting to see what happened next. Since what happened next largely involved Donald Trump, the media backed off, and Christie disappeared into the ether, other than as the object of some rather insulting memes.

And Christie has really not been heard from since.

Of course, Trump had to have his chew on Rubio at the time. And so he did.

And yet, here's Marco today:

Simply wonderful. Some credit to Trump for appointing him SoS. All credit to Marco for hanging in, for continuing to let his freak flag fly, and for being the man I always thought he was.