{"id":2088,"date":"2013-02-18T08:16:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T13:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2013-02-18T08:16:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T13:16:16","slug":"gop-savior-marco-rubio-turns-water-to-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/18\/gop-savior-marco-rubio-turns-water-to-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSavior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Marco Rubio Turns Water to Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.nymag.com\/imgs\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/02\/17\/17-rubio-bottle.o.jpg\/a_190x190.jpg?w=525\"><\/p>\n<p>Marco Rubio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/02\/rubios-big-moment-thwarted-by-water-break.html\">infamous water break<\/a> completed its life cycle this weekend, going from ubiquitous .gif to <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/02\/saturday-night-live-recap-season-38-episode-14.html\">sketch<\/a>, but the senator may get the last laugh. <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2013\/02\/rubio-raises-more-than-100000-off-water-bottle-incident\/\">According to<\/a> ABC News, Reclaim America, Rubio&#8217;s PAC has sold more than 3,450 &#8220;RUBIO&#8221; water bottles in the past week, raising over $100,000. Last week the PAC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reclaimamericapac.com\/donate\/water-bottle\/?utm_source=DrudgeReport&amp;utm_medium=Display&amp;utm_campaign=20130213_b64m51k57a24a72h38k21m33g80n97g66b46k95m12n74l03m12h25h38k20l03c76b46h73f58o34c17m34l14h12f54o27b80h12b53m83o34f70a52w87b64m51k57a24a72h38k21m33g80n97g66b46k95m12n74l03m12h25h38k20l03c76b46h73f58o34c17m34l14h12f54o27b80h12b53m83o34f70a52f82e69\">announced<\/a> that it would send a bottle to anyone who donated at least $25, saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Send the liberal detractors a message that not only does Marco Rubio inspire you \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 he hydrates you too.&#8221; The PAC also has tons of Rubio baseball caps sitting around, so expect the senator&#8217;s next gaffe to be headgear related.<\/p>\n<p>Read more posts by <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/author\/margaret%20hartmann\">Margaret Hartmann<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filed Under:<br \/>\n          <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/watergate\" title=\"Read all posts tagged watergate\">watergate<\/a><br \/>\n            <\/strong>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/marco-rubio\" title=\"Read all posts tagged marco rubio\">marco rubio<\/a><br \/>\n            ,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/news\/politics\" title=\"Read all posts tagged politics\">politics<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p>via Daily Intelligencer <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/02\/gop-savior-marco-rubio-turns-water-to-gold.html\">http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2013\/02\/gop-savior-marco-rubio-turns-water-to-gold.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio&#8217;s infamous water break completed its life cycle this weekend, going from ubiquitous .gif to Saturday Night Live sketch, but the senator may get the last laugh. According to ABC News, Reclaim America, Rubio&#8217;s PAC has sold more than 3,450 &#8220;RUBIO&#8221; water bottles in the past week, raising over $100,000. Last week the PAC &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/02\/18\/gop-savior-marco-rubio-turns-water-to-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOP \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSavior\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Marco Rubio Turns Water to Gold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[782,6,52],"class_list":["post-2088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-reader","tag-daily-intelligencer","tag-ifttt","tag-margaret-hartmann"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-xG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}