Posted on 04/13/2015 6:52:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ted Cruz remains a conservative favorite in 2016. In 2012, the establishment backed his Senate opponent in Texas, then Lt. Governor David Dewhurst. The conservative grassroots backed Cruz and pushed him over the finish line. Cruz has since remained a favorite of the grassroots with a continually antagonist relationship with the Republican establishment.
In 2010, Rand Paul, before Cruz, was a grassroots favorite. The Republican Establishment backed his rival, Trey Grayson. Paul rallied a coalition of conservative grassroots and Ron Paul acolytes to trounce Grayson and win the Kentucky Senate seat. Since then, Paul has wobbled between maintaining grassroots support and developing establishment support. In 2014, for example, he backed Mitch McConnell for re-election and has taken an occasional aggressive position to contrast himself from Cruz.
Marco Rubio is the original Tea Party candidate. His candidacy united the grassroots against the leadership and he won. The Washington crowd convinced themselves he could not win, but the grassroots proved they could pick a winner. Rubio was the first.
In the same year Rand Paul won, the man who started the major revolt between grassroots activists and party leaders ran. It was the Rubio race that really exposed the divide between the base and the leadership. The leadership backed then Florida Governor Charlie Crist. The grassroots, led by former Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, allied with Marco Rubio. Activists began urging a boycott of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Washington group that helps the GOP take the Senate....
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His evolved position on amnesty? Group of Eight?
Rubio alienated his Tea Party base. I don’t see him going anywhere.
one cannot discount the possibility that Rubio got in to pull votes from Cruz as a favor to his mentor Jeb,
“Why? What is your point, other than sneering at someone successful?”
Of the three, Rubio is the easiest for Hillary to beat. So the MSM will promote Rubio as the most moderate and then will say he is to the right of Al Haig in the general.
And be his VP nod.
Fox News wants to choose our primary candidates again. Sorry, Rupert and Mr. Ailes. We’re not buying the Rubio brand.
Ding ding ding.
We have a winner.
worth giving up his Senate seat for
I was a campaign staffer for Al Haig in 1987-88. He wasn’t really that far right on much, more of a right-centrist with some hawkish foreign policy views.
Rubio plans to be Walker’s VP.
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Silly article. You make something happen because you wish it .
It sounds like Rubio is committed not to run for Senate re-election. That’s a lot to give up for an assist. I think he’s in it to win it. I am starting to wonder if it’s the other way around. Bush never takes off and supports Rubio. We’ll see. At this stage I am for Walker or Cruz...whichever shows me more during the campaign.
He brings youth...Latinos... FLA...all to table. He’s got FOX news...he’s the odds on favorite.
You missed your check from The Cheap Labor Express.
Bingo, that is his real purpose, as a blocker for Bush.
Alternate scenario.
Preibus has Bush “running” (but not really) to make his home state boy Walker look good to the base in comparison. When Bush demurs from actually running and endorses Walker, Walker then picks Rubio as VP.
The Cheap Labor Express gets its amnesty candidates.
Cruz is who the establishment of both parties is afraid of.
Fox News has already said that Walker, Rubio and Bush are O.K., they would only say that with the approval of The Cheap Labor Express.
he’s the odds on favorite.
Odds on favorite of scheming with Schumer and his Gang against the citizens. Never going to be President.
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