Posted on 02/22/2016 7:17:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Establishment wants Rubio.
Rubio inherits establishment support but is on a narrow path to stop Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/rubio-inherits-establishment-support-but-is-on-a-narrow-path-to-stop-trump/2016/02/22/0e076de4-d969-11e5-81ae-7491b9b9e7df_story.html
IMO, Rubio is a POS.
South Carolina was an open primary. That means a lot of non-Republicans voted. I saw something posted earlier mentioning how many registered Democrats voted in the Republican Primary.
I just recently learned that South Carolina was an open primary, and now I understand how Lindsey Graham keeps getting elected.
Rubio continues the establishment lie of confusing immigrants with illegals. That disqualifies him from ever getting my vote right there.
Cruz can’t get confirmed for SCOTUS. Too many RINOs.
Trump & Cruz need/should go into every single GOP Senate primary and endorse the guy running 2nd.
Just put a cardboard Trump next to some of these Senate candidates & and official endorsement from Trump and they jump 20 points.
If all that support couldn’t help an experienced governor, how is it going to help a baby-faced senator with hints of scandal swirling around him?
I suppose if he had grown up in an American part of the USA instead of in Miami he might have turned out more patriotic.
I saw my first Marco Rubio bumper sticker today. College students at a relatively liberal state school here in Texas.
Rubio is for Amnesty. Cruz is not.
It’s a fair argument. Frankly, I would love to get 100% behind Cruz. He’s ideologically superior to anyone running in my adult lifetime. I need to see more from him to get my full support. More ease and likability. More ability to connect with voter who are ideologically conservative. He has good moments and then iffy ones, and I am not sold that he can close the deal in November. He also has stumbled when attacked on his weaknesses (everybody’s got weaknesses), and instead of challenging and turning them around, he seems to get in his own way. Rubio, on the other hand has done a good job of muddying the waters on his key weakness immigration. His issues are lost in the shuffle because he turns around and makes Cruz look equally mixed. It’s BS, but it worked fairly well.
Rubio isn’t going anywhere. He’s the establishment’s last hope. The money is going to pour in. The GOPe and pundits hate both Trump and Cruz. Listen to Michael Medved some time to get the establishment view. He makes Hugh Hewitt look like a right-wing extremist.
I really don't understand where Rubio is getting any support. I guess young college age people probably relate to him a little.
I think some women “of a certain age” look at him like they do Barry Manilow or Englebert Humperdink.
But I have screamed out openly against Rubio from the start!
Florida will not support that little crapweasel.
And unlike Kentucky, we didn't change laws to allow him to run dual campaigns, for both POTUS and Senate.
He is mildewed, inedible burnt toast!
And that could be too. I remember years ago sitting in a Dentist office and the Dental assistant started talking about Clinton. She said she couldn't vote for him because his hair reminded her of a Televangelist.
I thought to myself, "that is a very dumb reason not to vote for someone."
No, there were plenty of good reasons not to vote for Clinton. The main one was that he was a snake. Maybe that was what she was trying to get at? :)
Not the Florida college students I know.
Here, they have parties laughing at him!
I would agree with this in theory if not for the fact that Ted’s campaign has been such an abysmal nightmare. At this point he just doesn’t seem ready to handle the management of (and accountability for) large groups of people.
But, his trust issues go past his campaign as well, to some of his questionable votes and previous positions on LPR status for illegals. I think he needs to be a voice in the Senate to echo the sentiments of what people want, and actually do it this time, not cower in silence after someone gets primaried for supporting LPR or amnesty for illegals.
Trump has proven it can work. Send him to the big chair and start sending him conservative legislation. Cruz can lead the charge and try again next time, having learned from this campaign.
Where is that coming from that makes you say Cruz is not for AMNESTY????
He dodges the question. The nearest he gets to ANYONE of the thousands upon thousands of illegals ever being associated with the word “deport”, is when he wags the Constitution out and refers to “federal law”! Then he rattles off that “those who are ‘caught’ are ‘deported’”.
Translation for ya’: He means ONLY INDIVIDUAL FELONS.
The GAZILLIONS in here, who are “in the shadows” and he recommended “A PATHWAY TO LEGALIZATION”.
Where can we find that he has ever backed off that sentence?
You NEVER hear him address the gazillions on the trail, he dodges with the border crap and NEVER discusses it, beyond the Feds and the felons.
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