Rubio is running in Florida, where the Cuban is king. I don’t think being hispanic hurts him there.
What hurts him is not being the “swells’” fair-haired boy, he’s conservative and he’s his own man.
But be that as it may, this is exactly what the rest of us are up against, the party muckedy-mucks are trying to drive the party to some mythical center and if we don’t take the party back there won’t be anything left to save.
So folks like Rubio, and Toomey, and folks like Palin, and Hunter father and son, and maybe folks like you and me, we’ve got to hang in and try to take the party back. Its ours, but they are making a mockery of it.
By the way, it makes me proud when a fellow FReeper gets off the bench and actually runs for office. You did it, no one can take that from you. Now, after you have time to decompress, get ready to do it again. We need people like you, conservatives like us, to actually get into the fight.
So I’m proud even if the party bigshots weren’t impressed. Do like Toomey; wait for it to come around again and then do it again.