Rubio Leaves Crowd of Conservatives Unmoved in South Carolina Speech

The National Review ^ | May 10, 2015 | Joel Gehrke

[2ndDivisionVet]

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio are basically the same age. And isn't it suspicious that "former" Bush people would be working for Rubio in a year when a Bush is running?

[Will88]

Marco’s personal story is inspiring and motivational and I’ve already heard about six or eight times. Turned his speech off yesterday when he began his story once again. Not sure what the political shelf life of such personal stories is.

And there are more substantive reasons he’s not inspiring many conservatives.

[lee martell]

Maybe they want him to play Robin to Jeb’s Batman. Or vice versa.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Rubio is the backup to Bush if he flames out entirely.
I still say Jebster is this cycle’s designated loser.

The RNC will get their amnesty candidate.

[molson209]

they couldn’t understand him with his foot in his mouth

[Paine in the Neck]

Even so, Rubio’s work on the Senate’s Gang of Eight immigration bill remains a problem for conservative activists, despite his assurances that he’s learned they were right to oppose the legislation. “You can forgive people for making one or two mistakes in politics, but when they make a mistake in the big things that you send them up there to put a stop to begin with, people don’t tend to forget that,” says Hill.

"Gee, Marco. I didn't mean to damage your rep. (...ya, right...)"

[gunsequalfreedom]

It is early. It is the time for meh speeches. Testing what works and what does not. Meh is valuable to find in live audience so silent TV audience meh can be avoided.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Early for the rest but it was too late for Rubio once he schemed with Schumer against the citizens and then lied about it.

[TomGuy]

I happened to catch Jindal’s presentation when I was channel surfing. I had not really listened to him since the time he had the rebuttal to SOTU.

In his recent appearance, he was impressive. He, like Walker and Cruz, was able to ‘talk’ to the audience without referring to notes or reading from a teleprompter.

I am now more open to hearing his positions on various issues.

[2ndDivisionVet]

A Cruz/Jindal ticket might be the thing.

[TomGuy]

Many are not buying his sudden conversion away from amnesty. His I-saw-the-light is only for political purposes.

Per some threads, he still supports amnesty — when he is speaking to Hispanic audiences and concerns.

That duplicity is not winning others over to his camp.

[TomGuy]

A Cruz/Jindal ticket might be the thing.

I don't see that. Too southern a ticket. Clinton did pull it off in 1992 with Gore.

If a southerner gets the nomination [BIG IF, considering the state of the RNC], look for him to go with a Walker or Kasich or someone representing another region. Also, if he is VERY conservative, look for the RNC to push JBush or Christie or some similar more mainstream VP. Think Reagan-Bush.

[9YearLurker]

Who has the worse comb-over at this point—Trump or Rubio?

[struggle]

Cruz/Walker

[upchuck]

Getting a whale of a ride using Cruz control.

[Dr. Sivana]

Maybe they want him to play Robin to Jeb’s Batman. Or vice versa.

Nope. Rubio cuts into Bush's vote in Florida. I don't support Rubio, but he's been planning this since he was elected in 2010.

[USS Alaska]

Who has the worse comb-over at this point—Trump or Rubio?

Rubio has a slight comb over, trump has a hay stack on a head.

I met Trump 20 years ago and his soul hair style has stayed with him for all these years.

I'm convinced that he wears it like that for spite because he can afford to fix it.

[9YearLurker]

Yeah, but at least Trump’s biggest selling point isn’t his youth and representing the generation of the future.

[mtrott]

“A Cruz/Jindal ticket might be the thing.”

I have to agree that is too “southern” a ticket. Now, I think a Cruz/Fiorina ticket might be worth a look.

[perfect_rovian_storm]

Why? If a VP nominee can’t bring his/her home state to the table, he/she is worthless. No ticket wins the presidency without the VP bringing their home state. Fiorina can’t win CA.

For VP, people who can bring an in-play state to the table include:

Walker (good choice)
Rubio (fair choice)
Martinez (meh)
Kasich (barf)

Christie has won state-wide in Jersey, but anyone who thinks he can bring NJ to the table in a presidential election is smoking something.