I hope no one is under the misconception that Marco is conservative. He is a stealth, sovereignty hating RINO. He no longer cares if he has TEA party support because he knows that he will be able to cry racist and get the dems on his side when re-election time comes.
I agree with your assessment. IMO he is the current Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice style ‘minority outreach’ model being groomed by a certain globalist, carpetbagger family of some notoriety.
Never impressed me, albeit he was an improvement over his predecessor, as Scott Brown was over his.