From National Review, Kevin Williamson, Envying Marco Rubio:

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Marco Rubio, according to that last surviving bastion of pure Yankee bigotry, the New York Times, has financial problems. What are those problems? He managed a $300,000-plus annual income and an $800,000 book advance in a way that was — get this! — different from the way a New York Times reporter might have. Thus we were treated to the spectacle of Michael Barbaro of the Times writing, no doubt from the study of his $1.1 million New York City apartment, about the fact that Rubio “spent heavily” by buying a house in Miami that cost half of what Barbaro’s apartment did. Rubio also leased an Audi and kept his four children in parochial schools. Because you know how those flashy Latin arrivistes are: always trying to impress their historical betters with their “meticulously manicured shrubs and oversize windows,”

The Rubio story is not about where Marco Rubio is, socially and financially. It’s about where he is from and where he is going. That’s the source of resentment. You see this all the time, if you know where to look for it: The chairman of a college department is steamed that he has to suck up to a man with a dozen successful car dealerships when he wants a new building to house his prestigious department of lesbian basketweaving grievance studies. “Why should that guy make 40 times what I do? Think about my value to society! Think about how important my work is! Look at his big, ugly house and his car that cost more than I make in a year — he does all the wrong things with his money!” Nobody blinks an eye at John Kerry’s yacht.

He (Rubio)  bought a boat. Deal with it, you upright, ridiculous, short-panted, ninnified Manhattan thumbsuckers in your million-dollar rat’s-nest apartments.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419737/marco-rubio-and-grievance-industry-kevin-d-williamson

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