Posted on 05/01/2015 3:28:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican insiders in early-voting states say a crucial battle is emerging in the 2016 presidential race between Marco Rubio and Scott Walker, competing to establish themselves as the party’s “bridge” candidate who can appeal to both the establishment and grass-roots activists.
As it has become increasingly apparent that they are key rivals, the men have started taking regular,subtle but unmistakable,shots at one another. Walker talks about the need to nominate someone who is not from Washington and implicitly compares Rubio to Barack Obama. Rubio suggests that there is “no way” a governor like Walker is prepared to deal with global crises facing the United States.
Dozens of interviews on the ground in the early states, backed up by recent polling,find many Republicans torn between Walker and Rubio.
A Public Policy Polling survey this week shows Walker and Rubio in first and second place in Iowa. “The key to Walker’s success is that he’s winning both among voters who are most concerned about electability in the general election and among voters who are most concerned with having the most conservative candidate,” the Democratic firm said in a release explaining the numbers. Rubio and Walker tied in the poll for being the most frequent second choice of voters.......
Rubio and Walker differ in many ways—a blue-collar Midwesterner who shops at Kohl’s; the son of Cuban immigrants who is married to a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader – but they are trying to woo an overlapping group of voters. There is a large bloc of establishment-minded activists who do not want to support Jeb Bush for the nomination out of dynasty and electability concerns, and there is a swath of deeply-conservative voters who love guys like Ted Cruz or Mike Huckabee but won’t support them because they want a nominee who they believe can win the general election.....
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A Governor can't deal with a "global crisis" better than a Senator? Does this mean Rubio would rather have Barak Obama running foreign policy over Ronald Reagan?
Born November 2, 1967 in Colorado, CO (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Liewellyn Scott Walker, born in IL
Patricia Ann Fitch, born in IL
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Scott Kevin Walker is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
Go ask the defeated and deflated union bosses in Wisconsin (and their brethren around the country who came to their aid - and failed to stop him) how "moderate" Walker is.
Yes. Rubio stepped in it with that one.
Jealous? I'm a Cruz control guy, but throwing rocks at Rubio is just plain stupid.
This is the same kind of crap that happened during the last election cycle.
If anyone doesn't meet YOUR standards, they just get trashed.
Too many FReepers are insanely in love with their own candidate and no one else will do.
I've seen too many say it's Cruz or no one.
I have only donated to Cruz, he's my guy and he'd be the best IMO, but if he gets beat in the primary, I will not concede to the demonRATS.
If you do, don't bitch about the butchbitch.
I don’t like traitor Marco Rubio but will vote for him over any pos Democrat. BTW Rubio is running for the Republican vice presidential nomination same as Obungu was w the Democrats
Rubio is hoping he can parley his mediocrity into presidency same as Obungu. Rubio has that minority thing going on same as Obungu so.......we shall see
Hillary’s claim to elected office is the U.S. Senate; a governor will have more chops (beyond the obvious ideological divide between her and the GOP candidates) to show what leadership and actual governing looks like.
I know what the reference was, but, no Republican should ever cast another Republican in the same lot with Barack Obama. To even begin to make that association is anathema.
I know what the reference was, but, no Republican should ever cast another Republican in the same lot with Barack Obama. To even begin to make that association is anathema.
If any one of the GOP contenders wants to take a swipe at Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul or any other “First-term Senator”, that’s fine, but please...... Compare them to another “First-term Senator” who became President; John F. Kennedy. Never impugn anyone’s character by associating them with B. Hussein Obama.
If they want a Hispanic for VP on the GOP Ticket, Dennis, why not go for the gold: Governor Susana Martinez of New Mexico. She would neuter the “Women’s Vote Advantage” and the Dem’s phony issue they call “The GOP’s War on Women” that Hillary will try to exploit.
Thank you, USS Alaska, for your Post #25. I could have cut and pasted it and signed my name to it, because every word of it expresses my sentiments exactly. Hang tough. Guys like you and me are in for a rough ride all the way up to Election Day.
He didn't but you prefer to repeat the talking points.
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