[DannyTN]

Well for one, penis envy wasn’t a good strategy.

[Democrats hate too much]

All of this was probably done on Romney’s advice and direction. Dealing with Romney is always career ending.

[IChing]

Nonsense, Rubio does not embody sunny optimism, but Trump certainly does, in the same way that Reagan brought a withering light and heat against scumbags and nattering nabobs

[marron]

No, what drives Trump’s candidacy is what did in Marco. And Jeb.

Borders.

I like Rubio, but he never was able to overcome his “gang of 8” betrayal. I’m not sure what he has to do to get past it, those things are hard to shed because people have long memories.

I notice that Fox likes to quote polls showing that people don’t care about borders, and yet their ace candidates bit the dust and Trump, for all his antics and defects, is forgiven everything because he is perceived as firm like granite on the border.

That is why Cruz is still in the race, he was the original borders guy before Trump ran away with that issue. Cruz has other things going for him as well, which is why I still see him as the better man between the two...

But the electorate cares about borders, and they have no patience for anyone likely to bring in another million jihadis and their families. So its Trump, or Cruz, or nobody.

[sickoflibs]

[Lurkinanloomin]

Marco made his mistake when he joined the Gang of Eight Traitors.

He deserves his upcoming political banishment.

[Mount Athos]

“No one can honestly say Trump cares about people who worry about how to pay the mortgage or put kids through college. “

Really?
This is what passes for wisdom among the journalist class?
Terrible.

So terrible.
You’re fired.

[Robert DeLong]

Many folks thought Marco Rubio was the most talented politician since Ronald Reagan.

Stopped reading right there. Rubio is nothing like Reagan, and never will be.

[Arthur McGowan]

I recently heard Ken Blackwell on Steve Deace, by accident.

As all segments of the Steve Deace show do, the segment began with Deace asking: “Does Donald Trump have any virtues or redeeming qualities whatsoever, or do you agree with me that he is the most evil, wicked, despicable human being who has ever lived?”

No surprise then, that Ken Blackwell is continuing his campaign to warn us that Trump is a professional mud-slinger who wants to blow up the world!

[IChing]

I want Trump to have his fingers on the nuke buttons because I WANT HIM TO NUKE ISLAMIC STRONGHOLDS. REPEATEDLY AND WITH EXTREME ARDOR

[STARLIT]

First off, Marco can’t think for himself.
Secondly, Telling everyone he shouldn’t have gone there tells me he was already there.
Third, I’m glad he showed his true inner soul for the fake TEA Party guy he claimed to be.
Fourth and Final, thankfully he showed us when face to face with a real working man he is still only a child in a man’s body. Marco has no concept of the real world.

[ronnietherocket3]

Marco should have focused not on body parts but on the readily seen parts of Trump’s bizarre behavior. And he should have asked Americans: Do we want put into Trump’s hands the keys to our U.S. nuclear arsenal?

What is this obsession with the US Nuclear Weapons arsenal? I am more worried about someone like the author of this article having control over nuclear weapons than Trump.

Mr. Trump has never been a Republican or a conservative. He claims he cares about the plight of the typical straphanger on the New York subway, those working stiffs. If that were true, Trump might have run for Mayor, for Governor, or even for U.S. Senator from his home state.

If the problem is Federal policy rather than laws or state/local policy, it would make more sense to go straight for the position that has the most effect on federal policy, i.e., the presidency.

The enlisted men and women in our all-volunteer military are hard pressed these days. If only Marco had gone after Trump’s questionable fitness to command any of these loyal troops.

Doing better by our vets is one of the top 6 issues of Trump's campaign.

The tragedy of Marco’s failed campaign is that he did not focus on the existential danger of putting nuclear weapons in the hands of a loose cannon like Trump.

Where does this obsession with nuclear weapons come from? Is the author jealous because he doesn't have any?

What Kennedy then called the slenderest of threads now is fraying daily. This is because of President Obama’s fatally flawed nuclear deal with Iran. Considering this, we must think hard about letting Mr. Trump run around with a large pair of scissors in his hands.

Obama brings us closer to nuclear war with the Iran deal (which Trump has thoroughly criticized), but Trump is too dangerous to trust with nuclear weapons. This argument makes no sense. Trump has stated we should try to undo the Iran treaty.

That nuclear sword of Damocles should have been the focus of our attention all winter. It must be our focus even more urgently now.

Given that we have more pressing issues, no. E.g., the trade deficit, the budget deficit, ISIS, the drug epidemic, etc.

[Cyman]

I hate Marco but the last two debates when he decided he’d had enough and went after Trump using Trump’s own bullying techniques, he wiped the floor up with him.

[Seruzawa]

When comparing Marco to Reagan he left out two slight differences between the two. 1- Reagan was conservative. 2- Reagan had some integrity.

Aside from that they are identical. LOL.

[bigbob]

all the April Fools silliniess is killing me

[Fhios]

I disagree with the whole premise. Rubio was behind Trump in Florida for months on months.

Rubio’s biggest problem? Not showing up for work. That meme really resonated with people and destroyed his chances.

[x]

Many folks thought Marco Rubio was the most talented politician since Ronald Reagan.

?????????????

WTF? Who are these people. Do they even exist? And what do they think of their boy now?

[mac_truck]

My understanding is that Roger Stone and Donald Trump had a bet about whether Trump could knock Marco Rubio out with one punch.

[MHT]

Affiliation with the Gang of Eight killed his career before it got started. The drink of water at the Obama after-speech was a moment of stupidity. Visuals for the new guy on the block create reality. Also, he needed Hispanics to prove that the GOP couldn't live without him. Another Floridian who was right about nothing (Bush) should NEVER have been allowed to run. Lastly, if Donald hadn't named him Little Marco, Cruz would have knocked him off the box. Cruz is the ruthless one. Marco was very telegenic and was the best but he was defeated before he got started...

PS Maybe he shouldn't have said something about immigration amnesty in Spanish that he didn't say the same way in English.

[Caipirabob]

Marco was going down from day one for the amnesty treason. All other aspect of his candidacy were and are irrelevant. Maybe he can run for the mayor Havana-miami.