Allen West won’t rule out primarying Rubio in Florida in 2016

Hot Air ^ | June 19, 2013 | ALLAHPUNDIT

[Hojczyk]

Outlets like Politico are overselling this, but for understandable reasons. The thought of a nationally known tea-party hero bloodying the nose of the great GOP hope in 2016 over amnesty is irresistible to political media.

It’s momentarily irresistible to tea partiers too, I bet: Grassroots conservatives complain endlessly about Rubio these days due to his Gang of Eight fiasco but he’s gotten off with a wrist slap among prominent conservatives and most right-wing big media, apart from the occasional perfunctory expression of “disappointment.”

How many border hawks out there wouldn’t want to see West, a guy respected by the grassroots for speaking truth to various forms of power, take off the gloves with him over immigration in a primary race?

Listen to the clip, though, and you’ll see that he’s all but ruling it out without explicitly ruling out. He makes no “Sherman statement” but there’s nothing here suggesting that he thinks it’s a good idea — it’s a “heavy lift” to knock off a sitting senator, he says, it plays into the media’s hands by handing them a storyline of red-on-red tea-party internecine warfare, etc. In fact, there are two obvious problems with a primary challenge. One: Won’t Rubio be, er, running for a different office in 2016?

There’s a chance that he’ll stay out if Jeb Bush makes a bold move into the race, but I think that depends on what happens with immigration reform. If Rubio succeeds in getting something passed, the media will toss bouquets at him and wealthy Republicans will ooh and aah at his ability to “get things done” by getting them lots of cheap new labor. He’ll be tempted to strike while the iron’s hot. If he runs for president, then he might not run concurrently for a new term

[Liz]

Rubio should run as a Democrat.......

Yup----New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza caused a bit of a stir, recounting how Senate Dems praised Rubio for bamboozling Rushbo, his st5aunch conservative audiences, and Republicans, in general, by repeatedly lying about "reform".......

Can you almost hear Schmucky Schumer saying," Aw, go ahead, Marco, baby......we Democrats lie to our stupid supporters all the time....and we get elected and reelected....no problem."

I guess Marco was really swayed when Schmucky showed him this picture of Biden and Arlen.

"Trust me Arlen, when you're one of us, your worries are over."

[Liz]

Mmmmmmm.....I just can't decide.

Which is the killer quote---the one most devastating to political ambitions?

(1) Rubio saying latinos are superior to American workers?

.....or.....

(2) Jeb Bush saying latinos are superior to Americans b/c they are more "fertile?"

Mmmmmmmm.......decisions, decisions, decisions (cackle).

[Vigilanteman]

I confess that I had to vote for Arlen in the Democrat primary just so I could vote against him in the general election. I was genuinely sorry (but not all that surprised) when he lost the primary.

Democrats do not have a good track record of being kind to traitors.

[Lions Gate]

I hope West does defeat Rubio in the next primary. Rubio is a traitor to America.

[Viennacon]

Go WEST!

[Bulwyf]

Even though I’m Canadian, I called his office anyways to voice support for him, and to let him know that it’s not just Americans that support his ideas either.

[VideoDoctor]

Go for it Mr. West

"Marco the Rube" is a lost cause.

[SeminoleCounty]

West would destroy Rubio in a primary. He would also beat Bush in a primary as well

West can raise enough money to run an effective campaign...enough to beat back a Liberal GOP candidate

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Florida's Tea Party patriots will be crawling over broken glass to unseat the traitor "rubio" ...


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