Among the Tea Party successes in the 2010 congressional elections was U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. He is now one of those on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s short list of possible running mates.
For any political party, Rubio would be worthy of consideration for vice president or a higher office. He’s smart, good-looking and charismatic. The Cuban-American is a plus for Republicans, a party that polls show has been losing ground with Hispanics.
Rubio has been in the Senate less than two years, but while others across the country are still getting to know him, he has long been a familiar face to Floridians. Rubio served a decade in Florida’s Legislature where he was House speaker — the first Cuban-American and youngest person ever to hold that office.
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