https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/14/water-gate-rubio-ends-up-the-winner/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 05:03:18 -0400<![CDATA[Another loser in all this is Rand Paul. His “tea party response” was very strong and, whether Paul intended it or not, was the perfect sort of event for the MSM to hawk one of its favorite story lines: Republicans in disarray! Civil war on the right! Tea party versus the establishment! And while much of that narrative would have been pretty idiotic, such idiocy rarely stops The New York Times or MSNBC from obsessing over it. I mean it’s not like Rubio is Susan Collins or anything. But, thanks to the obsession with Rubio’s addiction to dihydrogen monoxide, that story line got short shrift in the press.]]>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:00:57 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/14/water-gate-rubio-ends-up-the-winner-n280987