re: #8 jvic

I find it laughable that you find this to be an admission of a mistake and a misguided attack on poor old Marc Rubio.

If American politics continues its deliberate, unnecessary polarization—-I hope it won’t but fear it will—-, few indeed of us will be laughing when the chickens come home to roost.

I no longer give Republican politicians the benefit of the doubt on issues like this one. Rubio is walking it back because he got stung by the negative PR associated with admitting his creationist beliefs, and that’s the only motivation for these remarks.

More importantly, he doesn’t just talk about it, Rubio has actively worked to legitimize the teaching of creationism in Florida public schools. He’s now pretending to “correct” himself because he can’t continue doing this kind of work with the media spotlight on him.