FL Editorial Boards Slam Rubio: “Lacks a Spine”& “Beyond Hope”

Miami Herald: “It’s hard to take a principled stand when one lacks a spine, as Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has shown us”

Orlando Sentinel: “It’s time to surrender any hope that Rubio will ever do the right thing if there’s any risk involved”

The editorial boards of two of Florida’s largest newspapers eviscerated vulnerable incumbent Senator Marco Rubio this week for opposing a bipartisan commission to investigate the deadly January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

The Orlando Sentinel skewered Rubio for “never do[ing] the right thing” and lamented that “Rubio is beyond hope,” and the Miami Herald blasted Rubio stating “it’s hard to take a principled stand when one lacks a spine.”

See for yourself:

Orlando Sentinel: Time to give up on Marco Rubio, who will never do the right thing if there’s any risk | Editorial

• We always hold out hope Rubio will do the right thing and he almost always disappoints.

• Marco Rubio is beyond hope.

• What’s the point of appealing to someone who swore off another Senate run when he ran for president in 2016, then turned around and ran for the Senate? Someone who negotiated a bipartisan immigration reform bill and then campaigned against it?

• We’ve been waiting a decade for Rubio to do the right thing. But the senator is Lucy with the football, and every Floridian who trusts him is Charlie Brown.

• It’s time to surrender any hope that Rubio will ever do the right thing if there’s any risk involved.

Miami Herald: Here’s your chance to prove you’re more than a Trump sycophant, Sen. Rubio | Editorial

• It’s hard to take a principled stand when one lacks a spine, as Florida’s U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has shown us since Donald Trump’s election — most recently by declaring he’s against the creation of a bipartisan commission to look into the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attacks.

• Rubio now needs to be outraged on behalf of other “brave Americans” — those law-enforcement officers who were chased, beaten and left without back-up, outnumbered by a raging mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

• It’s unlikely Rubio will reverse his stance, but he should — if not for the sake of the nation he professes to love, then to show us just a small shred of backbone he might still possess.

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