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The End of Marco-mentum
The New York Times Magazine ^ | March 14, 2016 | Mark Leibovich

Posted on 03/14/2016 10:02:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The last time I saw Marco Rubio in person, he seemed to be on the verge of inheriting the charred Republican earth. It was Feb. 22, the day before the Nevada caucuses. We were aboard Rubio's campaign plane, flying from Reno, Nev., to Las Vegas. Rubio is 44, but he can sometimes come off like an overgrown and hyperactive boy, jiggling his leg when he is otherwise still. He seemed to be in a sunny mood.

"This was a great day for us," said Rubio, who had not yet resorted to making pee-pee jokes about the Donald. At the time, consensus was building among the pundit geniuses (whose consensuses are, of course, always correct) that Rubio was now the preferred alternative to Donald J. Trump.

As Rubio crisscrossed Nevada with his retinue of local dignitaries -- Nevada's lieutenant governor and a former governor, a congressman and a senator -- it seemed as if every hour brought another endorsement from another vintage piece of the Republican furniture: Orrin Hatch, Bob Dole, a senator from Indiana, the governor of Arkansas. The night before at a rally in North Las Vegas, Rubio strode, chest out, onto a stage crowded with validators -- 17 of them in all. They included a casino's buffet of Nevada pols, someone from a reality TV show called "Pawn Stars" and Donnie Wahlberg: once a New Kid on the Block, now a lapsed golden boy who was going all in for Marky Marco....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: rubio
We Cabernet-swilling, farm-to-table eating elites never watch "Pawn Stars."
1 posted on 03/14/2016 10:02:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wish he would drop out already!!!


2 posted on 03/14/2016 10:21:30 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He really never had any momentum, it was all a media myth. After he crashes and burns tomorrow, what he’ll do is anyone’s guess. I’ve heard him say that he will stay on, because he says once the primaries more up north he’ll do better there. But, who will keep donating to him, he’s only won 1 state, DC, and Puerto Rico.


3 posted on 03/14/2016 10:35:13 PM PDT by euram
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

End?

He never had any.


4 posted on 03/14/2016 10:41:42 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dear Rubio,

We heterosexual males do not care about the size of another man's penis. You lost us there buddy.

5 posted on 03/14/2016 11:31:14 PM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: euram

Carl Rove, the Koch bros, national review, hillaries people, mitt, shall I continue.....


6 posted on 03/14/2016 11:46:32 PM PDT by enduserindy (Republican's have sold the path, not lost it.)
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To: euram
The media hyped nobama in 08 with success and tried to do the same thing with scrotumio. It just didn't go as planned because Trump bulled his way through the chaff.

Ed

7 posted on 03/14/2016 11:59:10 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: justa-hairyape

“We might have to start eating people if we land in the wrong place,” Rubio conceded, again deploying an obvious metaphor for this particular Donner party of a Republican primary campaign.


8 posted on 03/15/2016 1:11:54 AM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Marko, is he still in the race?


9 posted on 03/15/2016 1:18:27 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubio is Jeb, without the integrity.

Jeb openly told us that he sees illegal immigration as “an act of love” rather than a crime that will destroy our country. You know what you get with Jeb.

Rubio lies to get into office, and then does what Jeb would have done. Rubio never had any potential at all to go above the floor set by establishment voters looking for the designated heir.


10 posted on 03/15/2016 2:49:53 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to meand over an is worthless." - Scalia)
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To: justa-hairyape

I wonder if Marco is all the time thinking about “size”.

Foam parties, and all. Hmmmm.


11 posted on 03/15/2016 3:34:06 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He was done the moment Trump called him “little Marco”. A linguistic kill-shot.


12 posted on 03/15/2016 4:37:51 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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