This is great news and I expect that Rubio will slowly pull farther ahead as the campaign progresses.
I’m going to claim some bragging rights here- I was one of the first Freepers (perhaps the first) to support Rubio over Crist, even though Crist appeared to be more electable.
“This is great news and I expect that Rubio will slowly pull farther ahead as the campaign progresses.”
Rubio looked a lot more impressive to me back in April when he first began to appear on the scene. He was running as a real conservative, constitutionalist. Since then, he has become very measured in his responses and his answers have become “Bushified”. He doesn’t seem to realize that, with Crist in this race, this will be a “base” election. If he does not motivate the base and turn them out, he will lose to Crist. Being wishy washy on lifting the moratorium and opposing the Arizona law has cost him. He needs to jump start his flagging campaign. Sarah Palin could do this for him, but he must have received strict orders from Jeb not to call upon her.
I hope Rubio wins. He is far better than the chameleon, crypto-lib Crist. He should be far ahead of “Benedict Charlie” but instead he is within the margin of error and probably a little behind. Unless he gives the Bushes a wide berth and begins to fearlessly articulate constitutional conservative principles, I am afraid he is going to lose.
I’ve been told that Crist support among Republicans will collapse once it becomes clear he’s the de facto RAT in the race.
As I’m sure you know a bunch of democrats just held a fundraiser for him.