Marco Rubio can’t have it both ways | Letters to the editor

Various media report that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is one of Trump’s potential running mates (though the 12th Amendment supposedly prevents two people from the same state being on the same ticket).

Voters, remember: When Rubio ran against Trump in 2016, he called Trump “a con artist,” “an embarrassment,” “unprepared to be president” and said he was “someone who spent 40 years sticking it to the little guy” and of “being the most vulgar person ever to run for president.”

Now, suddenly Rubio endorses Trump for president, supports his claims of presidential immunity, thinks the prosecutions against the con man are unjust, and fawns over him like a star-struck child.

Rubio can’t have it both ways. Trump can’t be a con man in 2016 and the man he thinks should run the country in 2024. Rubio’s poor judgment of character and lack of conviction make him suspect as a VP candidate who could capably run the country. The same goes for others, such as Sen. Tim Scott. Let’s hope that in the end, it doesn’t matter who the con man’s running mate is.

Scott Benarde, West Palm Beach

Waiting for the ‘but … ‘

It’s no surprise that the editorial board has liberal inclinations. While reading the editorial, “Campus protestors need a history lesson,” I was surprised at their more centralist take. While reading the “missing from the clamor” section, I waited for the “but” that didn’t come.

While reading the “What’s antisemitic and what isn’t” section, I waited for the “but,” but it didn’t come. While reading the “differing views” section, I waited for the “but” but it didn’t come. It wasn’t until the “Don’t ever forget 1968” section, the “but” arrived, as in: Students should stop protesting.

David Cebrat, Pembroke Pines

Go to Gaza, students

Here’s a modest suggestion.

Those who purport to support the Palestinians should go to Gaza and assist in their cause. Instead of ruining university commencements and shouting insults at Jews and Israel, students should volunteer time and energy, serve humanitarian needs or give aid and comfort to terror groups sworn to Israel’s destruction.

Having recently returned from Israel, I can attest to the thousands of Jews and non-Jews worldwide who have volunteered to help Israel’s struggle for survival by packing food and medical supplies, harvesting vegetables and performing orderly duties in hospitals.

While they’re at it, the students might want to take with them those colorful tents to help displaced Gazans with whom they seemingly have so much sympathy.

Jonathan Rubin, Deerfield Beach

A lack of oversight

Fort Lauderdale’s elected leaders have expressed surprise and dismay about how Tunnel Top Park looks, now that it’s completed.

Would you budget $10.6 million to build, say, a house, and not pore over plans, design, landscaping and finishes? Would you ask contractors for color sample boards and maybe 3D drawings, to see how the finished project would look? The fact that the project came in over budget by more than $2 million, a common occurrence in building projects, can be understood.

What can’t be explained: The dismay of city leaders as to what they bought with $2.35 million in park impact fees and $10.3 million in parks bond money.

The park looks like it’s been there for several years: discolored flooring, chipped steps, marked walls. That’s what you get when you delegate to staff, don’t look at paint and texture samples and probably never saw architectural renderings.

The gateway to Fort Lauderdale, Las Olas Boulevard, deserved better.

Howard A. Tescher, Fort Lauderdale

Why he’ll vote yes on 4

As a husband, father and grandfather, I must say that the childish, narrow-minded, medically erroneous “viewpoint” by Kimberly Bird regarding “children” affected by the proposed Amendment 4 convinced me to vote yes — to “save lives.”

Harold Chanin, Boynton Beach