Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The False Claim that Rubio Can Unite the GOP
Lifezette ^ | Feb 3, 2016 | Keith Koffler

Posted on 02/03/2016 6:03:18 PM PST by JSDude1

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last
To: JSDude1
It is becoming more and more apparent that uniting the party is something that none of these guys can do. Substantial numbers will defect or sit home if Trump, Cruz, or Rubio is the nominee.

Which means the only way any of them could actually win the nomination is if they can clean up on those in the middle.

21 posted on 02/03/2016 6:20:39 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JSDude1

I was really disappointed to hear Rush spend so much time defending Rubio today as a “True Conservative.” If he wants to stay above the fray until the primary is over then he should just spend his show pointing out how bad Hillary and Bernie are and leave the Republican field to fight it out amongst themselves.


22 posted on 02/03/2016 6:21:09 PM PST by Mac n Jac (www.vetsfightingms.org)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bruce Campbells Chin

So, that should have been “win the general election”, not the “nomination”.


23 posted on 02/03/2016 6:21:28 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

Comment #24 Removed by Moderator

To: JSDude1

Even Obama was more qualified than Rubio. What has Rubio EVER done?


25 posted on 02/03/2016 6:23:26 PM PST by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

Same here. I’m staying home if Rubio is the nominee.


26 posted on 02/03/2016 6:30:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: JSDude1

Maybe Boy-Wonder can unite with Schmucky Schumer’s new democrat voters - the ones who only speak Spanglish.


27 posted on 02/03/2016 6:34:12 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JSDude1

From what I can see no current candidates can. Cruz? Please. Trump? Seriously. Rubio? Yeah right.

Welcome president burn...


28 posted on 02/03/2016 7:01:38 PM PST by wyowolf
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JSDude1

I should have said the GOPE incoming will be behind and effort to get Cruz out, and throw everything in, in order to make a two man race for Rubio against my guy, TRUMP.

On the “scorched earth” term, as related to Cruz, has hurt him and will be reflected in the polls, because not everyone thinks dirty tricks are fine, including some Evangelicals.

Between messing up his own reputation all by himself, and the GOPE/Rubio/TRUMP assault is unleashed against Cruz, I think Rubio can rise to second and threaten TRUMP in a two man race.

What do you think?


29 posted on 02/03/2016 7:06:09 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: RitaOK

Cruz hasn’t committed “scorched earth” as much as Trump, IMO. They should both cut it out as that may allow Rubio to advance. Evangelicals do not, you are correct. 1) Evangelicals aren’t stupid either, and seeing as the Carson dustup isn’t malicious they won’t abandon Cruz (if it were that WOULD be a different story).

No, Cruz will surge to a degree after Iowa.


30 posted on 02/03/2016 7:15:11 PM PST by JSDude1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: E. Pluribus Unum
He is a known quantity.

One of the Anti-federalists said the same thing about Alexander Hamilton and his phony professions of republican sentiment (he was actually a centrist, damn near a Phalangist, or as they called it at the time, "Empire without the king"); but nobody actually did anything about it until Aaron Burr shot him.

31 posted on 02/03/2016 7:32:18 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: corbe

I love how everyone says that Trump is done because he said he’d make deals.
I’m wondering, based on what we’ve seen so far, do you think the deals he’s going to make will be a victory for the other side?
Is his dealmaking going to be any different than obamas?
Wasn’t it obama who said that he won, so STFU?
If that’s the case, as long as the deal is for the benefit of me and those like me, than make all the damn deals you want?

I could be way off, but I do know one thing. I don’t know with 100% certainty that Trump will do everything he has said he’ll do. But everyone else up there(except for Carson and Fiorina), has played a major role in bringing this country to the edge. And I know that others will continue screwing us.

Cruz won’t be able to get anything done. The Dem’s will hold up everything and anything. And most of the Republican politicians hate him. So, he’ll get no cooperation.

The only thing Cruz would be good for, is picking people for SCOTUS(maybe, depends on who Goldman Sach and the CFR want in there).


32 posted on 02/03/2016 7:35:19 PM PST by qaz123
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: JSDude1
No, Cruz will surge to a degree after Iowa.

Screw the degree. I hope he surges to the nom.

</off flat pun>

33 posted on 02/03/2016 7:37:33 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: lentulusgracchus

Well I do too!


34 posted on 02/03/2016 7:40:37 PM PST by JSDude1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: qaz123
...most of the Republican politicians hate [Cruz]. So, he’ll get no cooperation.

That "he can't get anything done" is RiNO propaganda, and a smear of Cruz.

No, if as President he cleans out the 'Rats in two legs of the Iron Triangle through authority and influence, and if he leads conservatives in Congress in an insurrection against "K" Street money, he could mount a successful insurrection-from-above against Yurtle the Turtle and his sycophants and dependents, purging RiNO power in the Senate and opening the way to impeachment of Leftist SC justices and prosecution of the principal malefactors of the Clinton and Obama crime machines.

If Cruz has to fight a revolutionary war of extermination against the RiNO's in our own party first, then that is what he'll have to do. Pursuing them with the sword of justice is the best plan: their corruption has been their power, and it can be their downfall. America's ripe for a "great justice" and the fall of so many rotten, evil people.

35 posted on 02/03/2016 8:10:31 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer
She said she was going to “unite” the country and then went on to bash Republicans, conservatives and various other Americans.

When Leftists like She-Beast say crap like that, "unite" translates to "get your guns, break out the torches and kick up the dogs, we're going to hang us some Unbelievers tonight".

36 posted on 02/03/2016 8:19:03 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: lentulusgracchus

I can agree with what you said. And, truly I wish everything you said would happen.

But, it ain’t gonna.


37 posted on 02/05/2016 4:07:07 PM PST by qaz123
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-37 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson