Better than jeb, but not good enough...
Thoughts on this chart?
The GOP’s first real contender???
Good grief...
I hereby predict that media darling Rubio will be the biggest non-event since global warming.
Someone making a hard sell
He is the one the political left is most afraid of. And this is the real reason behind Obama’s push to normalize relations with Cuba.
lol
[Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign, which officially kicks off Monday, has so far attracted paltry support from Republican voters...]
THAT SAYS IT ALL! Compare the enthusiasm from Independents, Republicans, Tea Party people, even Democrats when TED CRUZ announced his candidacy.
TED CRUZ will take it all before the MSM even notices.
Ted Cruz will CRUSH Rubio with one hand tied behind his back. It won’t even be close. Rubio burnt his bridges with conservatives/Tea Partiers when he hooked up with Obama and Schumer over that amnesty bill.
I’d like to think Rubio would do well in a Cruz or Walker government, on one condition:
KEEP HIM AWAY FROM THE I.N.S., AND ANY INFLUENCE HE MAY HAVE ON THE SAME!
The answer is to simplify radically and to reduce rates across the board.
Not to compete with the 'Rats to see who can offer the "middle chump class" the best deal.
Hahahaha...yeah right!
Rubio? Uh, no.
First real contender? What’s Ted Cruz? Chopped liver?
If you count Amnesty as one of maybe a dozen key issues and weigh it equally as one of, maybe, 12 issues, Rubio does fairly good in most stack-ups (I suspect that’s the case here). He seems good on guns, taxes, foreign policy.
Yes, on Amnesty, he (along with about 20 other Republicans) voted for that 2014 Senate bill. Just one mistake, one bad vote. Perhaps he was distracted that day?
...but NO! Amnesty was not “just one vote”. It was NOT a water project or even closing the so-called ‘gun show loophole’. It was a GAME CHANGER, something that in one generation (or less) meant THE END of conservatism in the United States (i.e., either the Republicans stayed conservative and got 35-40% of the vote, or they went far-left and got closer to 50%, but either way conservatism and the United States loses).
So it was bad enough that he voted for it. But he did MUCH MORE. He LED THE CHARGE for it. He was the face of Amnesty for Republicans. He later explained that he knew he went overboard on the side of Amnesty but was trying to put the Senate in a “strong position” when negotiating against the House in Conference. Well, sorry, that might make perfect sense for Schumer, but it makes NO SENSE for someone that wants to come across as a conservative. And with the House leadership seriously compromised and dozens of ‘Republicans’ sold-out and ready to support some form of Amnesty, it was a VERY DANGEROUS game to play. In fact it was an absolute miracle that Cantor was defeated last year, which is what it took to stop Rubio’s grand plan.
But, in the end, perhaps he’s vying for either a VP slot or maybe thinking longer term and looking to finally slay Jeb, and possibly Walker, thereby opening the field up for Cruz. If that is his strategy, I’ll certainly respect him for it - but I’m not ready to forgive him, not now, probably not for a decade. But if he is #2 to Cruz, I’d be ok with that - but I’d prefer to see Martinez run with Cruz. It would be GREAT to have a pretty face contrasting The Hag.
I can only remain impressed by his turnaround on immigration two years ago and due to that single betrayal understand his sheer capacity to destroy his otherwise good standing. I would prefer that Walker or Perry emerge out of the pack as the nominee’s this election cycle. That said, Rubio is conservative but he never fully articulated his treachery on that senate vote.
Moses smell the roses...
WOW...Rand Paul has the most conservative voting record in congress? More conservative than Ted Cruz? Holy chihuahua!