As I type this, the Morning Joe crew (no, not Fox and Friends), including Mika Brzezinski, is laughing at the New York Times front-page story on Marco Rubio’s personal finances that portrayed him as squandering money on a “luxury speedboat,” showing a picture of the model he purchased.  Earlier, Blake Hounshell of Politico tweeted out a picture of the model provided by the Rubio campaign. Not exactly a cigarette boat.  In fact, exactly the kind of boat you see fishermen using all over Florida, more or less the Ford Focus or Toyota Camry of fishing craft.  The obvious comparison is to John Kerry’s yacht, the one he docked in Rhode Island to avoid Massachusetts taxes.  Sheepherder (hat tip: Hot Air) tweeted this: Now, when MSNBC is laughing at the Times, it is pretty clear that their efforts to discredit Rubio have jumped the shark.  Rubio ends up looking like the struggling, cheerful underdog.  Efforts to portray him...(Read Full Post)