Looks like Rubio will be the establishment’s last hope.
I expect they’ll ask Bush to drop out shortly.
I see much of the establishment hooking their wagons to Trump. Some are saying anyone but Trump while others are quietly backing Trump.
“Looks like Rubio will be the establishment’s last hope.
I expect they’ll ask Bush to drop out shortly.”
I still think the hidden knife is Willard. Someone pointed out in passing that several of the most strident and alienating “Cruzers” were former Willard minions. They still might be. Sow enough chaos for a brokered convention, and the smiling, reluctant, happy mortician face of Willard might suddenly fill our screens again.
That could be an agenda mostly or wholly separate from the GOPe.
If all the establishment candidates except Rubio dropped out, that would be bad news, since the combined total of Rubio, Jeb, Christie, Kasich, and Fiorina in national polls would put the establishment ahead of Cruz and right behind Trump. Luckily the Bush political machine is too powerful and well-connected/funded for the RNC to force him out, so with any luck he and Rubio will stick it out until the end fighting over one another's votes.
I doubt Kasich, Christie, or Fiorina will still be there after super-Tuesday, however. There's also the question of where Carson's remaining 7-8% will go if/when he drops out.
No......Rubio is not the GOP Establishment RINO hope....Ted Cruz is, big time!!! The GOP Establishment RINOs wants to get rid of Donald Trump, anyway they can. They back Cruz because they know is a “one trick pony”, with an extreme radical and limited base of “Glenn Beck” supporters!!! With cruz winning th Iowa caucus....the GOP establishment can quickly finish him off....wipe him out politically and be done with him as thy try to foist Jeb Bush on us common folk!!!
Sad to say, any Iowa voter that votes for Ted Cruz is just wasting and throwing away their valued vote!!! Shame.....that they cannot see the forest for the trees!!!