The Rachel Maddow Show   |  February 06, 2013

State of the Union Address this Tuesday 2/12, 8pm ET

Rachel Maddow reviews the past politicians who've read the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address and reminds viewers that this year's address is Tuesday, February 12 at 8pm ET, with Senator Marco Rubio reading the GOP response.

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>>> a state of the union of the address is prescribed by the constitution. so we've had presidential state of the union messages or addresses of some kind since the dawn of the republic. but since the 1960s , for the past 50 years, we've had the party who is not the president's party deliver a response to the state of the union . it's a big honor to get the gig too. it shows that your party think you're an up and comer. so far the party responses to president obama have been given by louisiana governor bobby jindal . he went first. mr. jindal still sort of recovering from that. in 2010 they went with governor bob mcdonnell of virginia, who they staged to make look tres presidential. bob mcdonnell had only been in office as governor for about five minutes by the time they had them do this. he went on to become nationally famous for something that honestly did not come up in that speech, and thank god. in 2011 , it was congressman paul ryan , who was then nationally known mostly as the kill medicare guy. he went on to remain the kill medicare guy who is also the one who came in second place for vice president. last year the republicans chose to go with the guy they were marketing as the adult in the room, indiana governor mitch daniels . governor daniels has since left public service and is now the president of purdue. so it's not exactly the " sports illustrated " cover curse, but from jindal to governor ultrasound to paul ryan to who now? getting tapped to give the state of the union response has not been a surefire ticket to stardom for republican politicians in the obama era. so who is up next? who gets to risk it this time? senator marco rubio , do you have presidential aspirations? please proceed, senator. please proceed. msnbc's coverage of president obama 's 2013 state of the union address will start next tuesday night at 8:00 p.m . eastern. and that of course will be followed by the official republican party response, which we learned today will be delivered by senator marco rubio of florida. good luck with