Posted on 01/27/2016 4:52:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One of the recurring fantasies of many in the media is that Republicans are going to wake up and finally acknowledge that Marco Rubio is their nominee. Politico (again) has one of these types of stories today.
The thinking behind this is as goes:
* Marco Rubio will do well, somewhere
* He has the highest favorable ratings of any Republican
* He's also the most "electable"
* Everyone else will come to their senses, drop out, and endorse him
* Republicans will then finally realize Rubio is the one and he'll defeat Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and be the nominee
I hate to break this news to the media, DC based consultants, and other Rubio fans but Marco just isn't going to happen this year. The thing you have failed to take into account is actual Republican primary voters. They may like Marco Rubio as a person, but they don't think he should be president.
Bloomberg View columnist Leonid Bershidsky has this observation of both Rubio and Ted Cruz when he saw them in Iowa:
Unlike Trump, Cruz and Rubio may be true conservatives. But also unlike the rule-breaking billionaire, they don't come off as people who can afford to do and say anything they please -- an ability that lends Trump his powerful crowd appeal. They try too hard, and they fail to connect on a human level.
Rubio comes off as too controlled by his consultants. At times, he is little more than a robot spouting off canned talking points. For a guy who was hailed by some as the greatest politician since JFK, he seems too much like Mitt Romney 2.0. Just like Romney, Rubio has a nasty habit of pandering too much for votes with the most ludicrous example being that he bought a gun to protect himself from ISIS.
There's also the factor of polling. We can discuss the fact that he's stalled in Iowa and is losing ground in New Hampshire. But the most damning polling is that Rubio is losing in his own home state. If he can't beat Donald Trump in Florida, how the hell is he going defeat Hillary or Bernie?
If you're hoping for Marco's "New American Century", the evidence is coming in that you may have to wait beyond 2016 for it to happen. It's increasingly hard to envision a credible scenario where he emerges as the Republican nominee for president.
Rubio lied about immigration to get elected to the US Senate and then immediately joined the Gang of Eight to betray his voters. He is dead to me. I wouldn’t trust him if he claimed to have seen the error of his ways and to have finally and firmly repudiated the treasonous positions he proudly held last week.
“I have often wondered if Ted took Rubio aside and clued Rubio in to what Schumer was really up to.”
Rubio has a long history of siding with illegal aliens dating back to the time he was Speaker of the Florida House.
Schumer didn’t deceive him. He didn’t have to. Rubio was already on board with amnesty before he ever joined the Gang of Eight.
Sorry But Marco Rubio Ain’t Happening This Election
or any other
I like your tagline.
I respectfully disagree. Other than their Florida connection, Rubio represents just the opposite values. Rubio is an amnesty guy, lacks worth ethic, is controlled by special interest, has accomplished nothing, and is part of the establishment. Choosing him would make Trump seem like a hypocrite, somebody who does not mean what he promotes.
Trump has no core values and is offering touchback amnesty, so the last thing Trump is worried about is hypocrisy.
Rubio offers the largest voter block and swing state, to add to Trump’s.
Kasich is way behind that measure, and nobody else comes close.
Why even bother with somebody this lightweight who is saddled with this and other controversies when there are better qualified persons who clearly are nbc? When it come to experience and qualifications, Rubio is clearly the weakest, best known for being part of the Gang of Eight
Seems efforts are underway, starting with Obama, to push the envelope when it comes to the question of natural born citizen. A slippery slope.
Read my post again.
I never said Rubio could win.
I said Rubio is Trump’s best bet for VP.
You & I don’t have to like either man or his policies.
I’m simply presenting you with political realities.
And I am upset about the change in Cruz. I supported him even after the fiasco of delivering teddy bears to illegals, which I found offensive. Now he is making stupid statements as if he is unraveling. Or at least that is how the media has been portraying him in the last few days. It's as if his campaign had been sabotaged.
Chuck Schumer’s rent-boy not catching on this year. So sad.
Yet FOX is still pushing him.
He can always form a rumba band and open a Miami nightclub.
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