{"id":13230,"date":"2013-02-13T18:49:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-13T18:49:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T18:49:13","slug":"marco_rubio_takes_drink_of_water_disqualifies_himself_for_the_presidency_in_the_eyes_of_liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/02\/13\/marco_rubio_takes_drink_of_water_disqualifies_himself_for_the_presidency_in_the_eyes_of_liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Takes Drink of Water, Disqualifies Himself for the Presidency in the Eyes of Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: This is Ann, Littleton, Colorado. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Hey, I\u2019m one of those that didn\u2019t listen last night or didn\u2019t watch, and so I\u2019m just glad to learn all this that I\u2019m learning. But I did watch Marco Rubio and I wondered if you were as offended as I was when he took a sip of water.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Offended?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s what they\u2019re all saying this morning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Again, just tell you the truth: I\u2019m watching Rubio, and I have had dry mouth before, and I knew he had it. I could tell the way he was speaking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Snerdley is saying, “He was wiping sweat and his…” No, that\u2019s not what he did. He had dry mouth. His mouth was dry. He kept… (smacking lips) He kept doing this. (smacking lips) That comes, by the way, from being nervous. It comes from butterflies. That\u2019s what causes it. Either that or the room was too hot. One other thing that can legitimately cause it is excessively warm temperatures. That room could have been hot. The TV lights could have been hot.<\/p>\n

That can also cause dry mouth.<\/p>\n

So he reaches for the bottle of water, takes a drink of it, and, yeah, they\u2019re making fun of the guy all day and laughing for taking a drink of water. He\u2019s handling it very well, by the way. He tweeted a bottle of water last night. He did television interviews today with a bottle of water all day. I think that slot is one of the lowest-payoff slots that there is in politics, responding to a presidential speech. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s State of the Union, whatever it is.<\/p>\n

I mean, you go from the magnanimity of the House chamber and the the American flag. You get Boehner and Plugs back there, but just the majesty of that, with the constant applause! And then you go to a little room with no noise, no audience, no applause lines and nobody applauding and so forth. It\u2019s a really, really tough thing to do and to stand out, and he did it, and the way he\u2019s handling that bottle of water, I think it\u2019s just another illustration of the odds that Republicans face.<\/p>\n

As far as they\u2019re concerned, he\u2019s disqualified to be president because of that. He\u2019s disqualified to run \u2019cause he took a drink of water. He had dry mouth. Oh, his speech was excellent! It was an excellent speech. He took it right to Obama. He took it right to Obama. In fact, we\u2019ve got it. I\u2019ll play some excerpts of Rubio. I\u2019m not gonna play any excerpts of Obama. I did not see any of the Spanish part because I wouldn\u2019t have been able to understand the Spanish part. I watched the English version.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what we have some excerpts of.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll get to that before the program ends.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I said we\u2019re gonna listen to some Marco Rubio, and I better do it. Let\u2019s get a couple of those in here. He did a response both in English and Spanish, and of course we have the English version response. Here\u2019s the first of our sound bites…<\/p>\n

RUBIO: Presidents in both parties, from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan, have known that our free enterprise economy is the source of our middle class prosperity. But President Obama? He believes it\u2019s the cause of our problems, that the economic downturn happened because our government didn\u2019t tax enough, spend enough, or control enough. And therefore, as you heard tonight, his solution to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more, and spend more. This idea that our problems were caused by a government that was too small? It\u2019s just not true. In fact, the major cause of our recent downturn was a housing crisis created by reckless government policies.<\/p>\n