Marco Rubio, Don Quixote of the New Latin American Century
Image from Gustave Dore:- Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote - Part 1 - Chapter 1 - Plate 1 -- "A world of disorderly notions, picked out of his books, crowded into his imagination."
Marco Rubio listens to his dreams alright. And they are fantastic dreams: of becoming President of the United States with almost zero experience in the world of business -- or even government. And, now he says he will quit the Senate if he doesn't get elected President. How's that for perseverance and dedication!
H. L. Mencken, the terror of Baltimore, wrote an epitaph about William James Bryan, the Democrat demagogue of the early 20th century. His description of Bryan strikes home:
"But what of his life? Did he accomplish any useful thing? Was he, in his day, of any dignity as a man, and of any value to his fellow-men? I doubt it. Bryan, at his best, was simply a magnificent job-seeker. The issues that he bawled about usually meant nothing to him. He was ready to abandon them whenever he could make votes by doing so, and to take up new ones at a moment's notice."
"For years he evaded Prohibition as dangerous; then he embraced it as profitable. At the Democratic National Convention last year he was on both sides, and distrusted by both. In his last great battle there was only a baleful and ridiculous malignancy. If he was pathetic, he was also disgusting."
"...The job before democracy is to get rid of such canaille. If it fails, they will devour it."
H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 27, 1925