 | Bob Gabordi is executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat and Tallahassee.com. He can be reached through this blog, at bgabordi@tallahassee.com or (850) 599-2177 |
OK, so maybe the guy the pollsters say cannot lose in the U.S. Senate race has a sense of humor after all, despite what some of the reporters who cover Florida politics say. Marco Rubio is smart, articulate and focused, yes. But funny -- as in telling jokes -- funny?
Who knew?
Maybe his ever-widening lead over Gov. Charlie Crist and Congressman Kendrick Meek has Rubio just so giddy and a little silly.
The former Florida House Speaker responded quickly – if just a little wittily – to word that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, had endorsed Crist, a former Republican running as an independent against Rubio and Meek.
Schwarzenegger sent out a Tweet Tuesday saying: “I endorse Gov @charliecristfl for Senate. Great leader, works with both parties, and our country needs someone like him in DC right now.”
If you are counting, that’s 137 characters. Perhaps he’ll be back with the other three. (Get it? It’s from Arnold’s famous line, “I’ll be back.”)
And that lame attempt at humor is a great segue to Rubio’s press release, which also seemed to try just a little too hard to not take the govinator’s endorsement too seriously. (Remember Arnold's film “Terminator”? Well, it’s a play on words: govinator, “Terminator”.)
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