Rick Klein: “It’s easy enough to mock a particular media portrayal of Marco Rubio, cast as – shock! – someone who has struggled with his finances yet owns a luxury boat that isn’t that fancy and an expensive home that looks, well, fine. (The previous New York Times take on Rubio’s past, on his driving record, didn’t help its subsequent story.)”
“But even as Rubio’s campaign raises money off of the pair of Times stories, seeds of serious questions about Rubio are being planted. There are relationships with people as varied as former Rep. David Rivera and billionaire Norman Braman; credit-card missteps involving personal charges on a state-party card; and even the still-strange and very recent decision to cash out some 401(k) funds, penalty and all. If the story develops into one of a financially strapped young family, trying to make ends meet, it will all be part of a stump speech soon enough. But if it becomes one about a man with a law degree and six-figure income who couldn’t keep his finances straight, it will become part of a debate-stage attack just as quickly.”
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