From what I've seen I like the guy, but "they" like him way too much, and for all the wrong reasons, and that worries me. For the GOP Establishment he is a "slot," a personable and bright young man with a latin background and marketable ethnic moniker. I think he is part of Rove's strategy of courting "the Hispanic vote." Rubio himself seems like the real deal, not a pawn of Rove, but politics is politics.