Rubio backlash..

I try as hard as I can not to be a hypocrite. I try to stay aware of my positions and will take a moment to donk myself if I'm swallowing/making allowances that are similar in nature to something I'm blasting someone else for.

With that said, it fascinates me (in a leery way) to see the blatant exceptions and sudden Olympic level back flips the tea party types will do to accept a new take or position on something, previously and vigorously defended, by just pretending their defense or like of it was never a part of their ideological/personal equation, as they leap to their new opinion, never looking back. It's fucking unsettling.

People change their minds all the time. New information or personal experience tend to do that. But at least most people can explain why they thought the way they did previously and how that view or take changed accordingly. But these peeps don't ever look back. They'll never acknowledge that Rubio was their "guy of the moment." They'll never acknowledge they followed party line, despite (for some of them) their prejudiced inclinations to the contrary. "Ain't he Mexican?" "He's Cuban, but he thinks like we think, or at least he acts like it, so he's one of the good'uns." "Oh. Well fuck'in A. 'Merican first, spic last. He's got my torn support!"

They REALLY want to convince us (and themselves) they don't see color, or religion, or ethnicity when adopting positions. They TRULY need *you* to understand that when they decide they don't like something or someone based on policy stance, that it has nothing to do with any of the above, even though those differences are the first thing they run to in overt or round-about ways as they formulate their disagreement...and for the few who keep their opinions and objections free from bigoted insinuations or overtones, initially, they, like their less concerned with appearances fellow tea partiers, eventually and ALWAYS join them.

I've never seen people so vainly intent on proving themselves to NOT be who they are. And always, even with those who think themselves superior, they show their hand.

Opinions that rely in part, or heavily, on prejudice as their framework or base, can't be cleverly *talked around* to validate the origins of your opinion as something else. We can see that shit from a mile away.