Before he was a Tea Partier, Marco Rubio was just a plain old hard partier. His new memoir, An American Son, is out today, and while reviews seem to indicate it's what you might call sort of boring and politically safe, Florida's junior Senator does admit to drinking and partying in his past. In fact, he once threw up on a plane in front of Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and attended foam parties on South Beach.



Perhaps the most risque anecdote Rubio retells in the book is his attendance at foam parties. From The Huffington Post:

Rubio writes that one night, his now-wife, Jeanette, told him that if he went out to a nightclub that evening, their relationship would be over. He went anyway to a "foam party," where he writes that he "watched the foam descend from the ceiling ... a sight to behold." While there, he had revelation when his beeper buzzed with Jeanette's number: "As I contemplated my predicament, I looked down at my shoes. They were perfectly white. They had been black when I arrived. ... Maybe because I took it as a sign the life I was leading was phony and unsustainable or just that I had suddenly found myself wearing white shoes, a South Beach fashion faux pas, I left the club and found the nearest pay phone."

Beepers? Pay phones? South Beach foam partiers? How '90s. In fact, back in the '90s New Times chronicled the Beach's then in vogue trend of foam parties: