Was supposed to have been strictly a personal vacation.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2010/11/guess-whos-meeting-marco-rubio-in-israel.html

Newly elected Sen. Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, are meeting billionaire businessman/Jewish community leader/political pot-stirrer Norman Braman, his wife and her sister in Israel next week.

Braman was an early Rubio supporter and said they have talked about going to Israel together for years. He stressed that Rubio was paying his own way. It will be his first trip to Israel.

"I was hopeful that it would come about win or lose,'' Braman said. "Marco and Jeanette are religious people."

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The Rubio camp was mum on what it called a "private and personal visit to the Holy Land next week. There will be no official meetings or media interviews, and specific details of the trip will be kept private. Senator-elect Rubio is also working with pro-Israel supporters to make an official trip back to Israel early next year after he is sworn into office."

trip.I hope he is well hydrated.

Maybe in another 20 years, but to me he comes across as a rank amateur -- a child with childish thinking.

There are Republicans that do have some gravitas, but Rubio isn't one of them -- not even close.

He's not exactly a clown like Palin, Bachmann or Cain, but he just doesn't seem to have any weight about him.

I'm not feeling it.

Because it took all the attention away from the fact that everything he said in that speech was moronic. He got off easy. But he's still a moron, so there will be another day to show that.

Remember, Sarah Palin never got any brighter either.

Spring break trips are way more fun when you go as a bachelor.