Posted on 03/16/2016 6:24:07 AM PDT by jpl
Goodbye, Rubio.
Still we’re not going to miss you.
Marco Rubio had the hype, the hope and the backing of the GOP establishment, but there was always something missing — voters.
Now it looks like Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is the party’s only real hope to stop Donald Trump. Not the establishment’s first, second or third choice, but they have to get behind him if they want to stop Trump.
With Trump’s wins in Florida, North Carolina and Illinois, he’s all but sure to finish the primary process with the most delegates — and close to enough to clinch the nomination.
But Gov. John Kasich did his job last night — winning his home state and all of Ohio’s 66 delegates — and that may end up preventing Trump from amassing the delegate totals he needs in Cleveland.
But Kasich is far behind Trump in delegates, and won’t be favored in a number of Western states coming up. There will be pressure on him to end his campaign and allow Cruz a one-on-one shot against Trump.
It’s still a longshot for Cruz, who failed to show he can beat Trump in the South. But Trump has still not cracked the 50 percent mark in any state — the closest he came was 49 in Massachusetts. Now he has to show he can knock off the Texas conservative in a two-man race.
Rubio will go down as the most underachieving candidate of the year. Next time the Republican bigwigs should rally behind a candidate who can actually win something.
The 44-year-old Florida senator went 1-for-28 in GOP state contests. That’s a .036 batting average.
The only reason Rubio stayed in this long was to keep Trump from winning Florida, and he failed miserably at that.
Rubio’s high point was actually his third-place showing in Iowa, which he managed to spin as a surprise victory. He rolled into New Hampshire with momentum, and flopped. A horrible debate performance where he looked like a vacuous robo-pol sealed his fate. Then he tried to get into an insult fight with Trump, and lost that.
Rubio did earn some points with the party by urging Ohio Republicans to vote for Kasich. But any hopes he had of getting on the ticket as running mate pretty much ended when he got trounced in his home state.
Rubio’s failure shows just how badly national Republicans miscalculated the campaign. The Florida senator never came close to capturing the mood of the voters. They are craving a rock-the-boat tough guy who will take on Washington and Congress. That’s not Marco.
It appears that the liberal “media” has chosen Kasich as their new “Rubio of the Month”.
Florida sent Rubio to the senate as a Tea Party Conservative and Rubio stabbed Florida in the back.
Yesterday, Florida stabbed back.
Rubio’s pathetic attempt to spin loss after loss after loss showed a lack of character and common sense.
The guy just couldn’t tell the truth about anything—the lying robot.
btw that may be the ultimate Turing Test—only humans should be liars. :-)
Little Marco should beg forgiveness from Trump and endorse him.
They’re running out of next-best-chances to stop Trump. :-)
If Little Marco had taken a different position on just one issue, Amnesty, in office, I would have felt much differently about him. However, when US Senate Candidate Rubio opposed Amnesty and then US Senator Rubio led the Gang of Eight, I was done with him. I don’t care if Rubio tries to come back 20 years from now, I’ll still oppose him. He’s a treasonous liar on an existential issue. A loss on Amnesty will permanently destroy America.
March 15th: “Goodbye Rubio” Tuesday!
Well...back to the Turkish bath house...
So. Now. This? is what Cruz has been relegated to? I had such high hopes and good will for him back in March when he was first to declare. Christian, I believe an American despite birther claims, a constitutionalist and all round great guy. I supported him as my #1 pick all through the year until the end of 2015 when I finally got so, so tired of the rabid and rigid nonsense a lot of his support exhibited, and the vitriol with which they expressed it against Trump.
The fact that Ted embraced Glenn Beck's endorsement was and should have been a wake-up call for a lot of people. Sarah Palin's endorsement of Trump should have been another. Even through all this, and while switching to Trump, I never talked bad about Ted. I still don't want to.
But in the end with the performance stats as they are now we now see the Boston Herald in fact 'heralding' the coming of Ted as the ESTABLISHMENT's only recourse to stop Trump, there is something very badly, BADLY wrong with this picture.
Frankly, I'm disillusioned that such staunch supporters of Constitutional principles and conservatism throughout the anti-Trump side ally themselves with the likes of an establishment that has made a decades-long career of lying to us all and stabbing us in the back. I am honestly puzzled.
All politicians do this to some extent. They all lack that character needed to accept defeat. Time after time I've seen some candidate get their ass handed to them; yet they make a concession speech about how "their voice was heard, they sent a message, blah, blah". Disgusting really. Yesterday Kasich was acting as if narrowly winning a primary (in the state where he is governor) was a sure path to the nomination.
He’s a rookie.
One Senate term won with a plurality.
This guy won’t even be prime POTUS age for another 3 or 4 campaign cycles.
I’m sure he’s learned a lot.
If the GOPe hooks up with Ted Cruz, it will turbocharge Trump support. Besides GOPe don’t want Cruz..They are planning something else.
The answer is simple. Cruz is one of "them"....a politician. He will do and say anything to win. He will become whatever is necessary to gain power.
Over the years, you may not have noticed...but Cruz/s mask slipped every now and then. His true self was exposed and it wasn/t pretty.....and I do mean Glenn Beck.
I don’t honestly believe that he really is “one of them” in spirit. But I do believe that want, need, desire and determination and drive can make a man do a lot of things he’d be better off considering in calmer times.
To me it is this gradual relaxation of ideals and principles giving way to exigency, all with the vague self-assurances that “it is for the good in the end, and what if I have to cut some corners to get there?”
Rubio was definitely an underachieving candidate but the author must have forgotten all about the GOPe early leader, Yeb Bush, who came into the race as the presumptive nominee and proceeded to spend $150 million in a race to the exit doors.
I think the author needs to reassess his claim that Rubio performed worse than his big-brother, mentor, Yeb, did. Bush had the least success for the most bucks spent, than any other candidate in this election cycle.
Reading that makes me want to sip some whiskey. Maybe even a little rye.
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