WASHINGTON, February 12, 2013 — Republican Senator Marco Rubio’s screen test for his 2016 presidential run is Tuesday, February 12, immediately following the President’s State of the Union Address. The GOP tapped the young Florida Senator (41 years old) to not only be its spokesman but the face of the newly branded Republican Party. Rubio will be the first Hispanic to give an opposition party’s rebuttal since the practice was first started in 1966. A Cuban-American, Rubio will make it a bilingual address as well. However, most political junkies tuning in will not be listening so much to what Rubio has to say but how well he says it. Will he be a dud like Louisiana...
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