Posted on 12/04/2015 11:39:02 AM PST by TBP
According to the latest Quinnipiac poll, the two most popular and broadly acceptable candidates in the field are perhaps the most talented and most reliably conservative. Oh, and by the way, they are Hispanics in their 40s.
If the race eventually has Rubio and Cruz among the finalists, or winnows down to a Rubio-Cruz fight, it will feature supremely skilled campaigners who are eloquent and sure-footed and represent the best next-generation politicians the party has to offer.
A Cruz-Rubio race would play as the grass roots vs. the establishment, although Rubio in the establishment slot would be an enormous victory for the Tea Party.
In this scenario, the so-called establishment candidate would be the guy who ran for Senate in Florida in 2010 against a sitting Republican governor with presidential ambitions and the firm backing of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. As far as RINO-hunting goes, by stopping Charlie Crist and chasing him out of the party, Rubio still has the best and most consequential hide.
And, in a Cruz-Rubio scenario, the grass-roots candidate would be the guy who emulated the establishment candidate’s upstart campaign two years later in Texas.
The Tea Party has over the years backed some flagrantly unsuitable candidates in Senate primaries — remember Christine O’Donnell? Chris McDaniel? — but it invested very wisely in Cruz and Rubio.
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Chris McDaniel was a bad candidate?
Really, Rich?
Lowry also like Romney.
Rubio was supposed to be one of “our guys” when he ran against Charlie Crist. He’s not one of our guys but he was supposed to be.
Lowry starts with LOW and Rich put the LOW in Lowry.
He has TDS Trump derangement syndrome.
Saying that Jebs trainee Rube Boobio, is a real conservative is laughable. Gang of 8 is an odd place for a Tea party conservative to be.
The opinions of Rich Lowry are completely worthless.
...the most talented and most reliably conservative....
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Well, that describes Cruz but not the weasel Schubio.
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