He just can’t catch a break. After a solid twenty-four hours about his unique, humiliating brand of physical comedy (desperate dives for the water bottle, plus a nationally broadcast flop sweat), the story has switched to, ‘in our frenzy to write about Waterbottlegate, we neglected to point out how awful the actual speech was.’

When this happened to Bobby ‘Kenneth the Page’ Jindal, it got his rising name wiped off the shortlist when Mitt was looking for veep.

A smart consultant might have told him not to deliver the rebuttal, but apparently, Rubio either doesn’t have such consultants right now or he’s not listening to them.