Via Political Wire we're informed by Marco that (along with a dig at Jeb) Hillary is doing it all wrong: "No one is entitled to the presidency, and no candidate has the right to skip the process of laying out a vision simply because he or she has the deepest connections in Washington or the most money in big-dollar donations."
A more inaccurate analysis of the American democratic process is unimaginable. Hillary has every right to skip whatever she damn well wants and, at best and at most, to lay out only sketchy visions and only at the most opportunistic moments, as she's been doing with the immigration issue.
The American democratic process is not called a circus for nothing. It's a P.T. Barnum extravaganza of glitz, glitter, smoke, mirrors, elephants, jackasses, balancing tricks and, in a pinch but only a pinch, some high-wire derring-do. The best-known acts attract the largest crowds, among whom even the gapers know the routine.
The "process" is a playbook easily decoded, and political virtuosos stick to it. When, for instance, one is teetering yet still balancing roughly 10 points above the clownish Rubios and Bushes and Walkers, then one keeps one's mouth shut but eyes open. Does this contribute to the enlightenment of the maddened masses? Of course not. But the act isn't intended to enlighten. It's intended to amuse, to entertain, to baffle with empty razzle-dazzle and bring it all to a roaring crescendo.
Naturally, Marco understands this. And, were he in Hillary's tutu and big floppy shoes, he'd be doing the same thing. For now he must follow his own playbook: that of playing the innocent ignoramus, protesting the stupefying popularity of Hillary's big-top pageant. Thus Marco's analysis, above, is indeed deeply inaccurate, but mostly just deceptive — which is fitting, for he's just part of the circus.