The GOP still needs Reagan Dems in places like Ohio and Florida for 2016. Rubio might just have blown 2016 for the GOP by supporting TPA.
At this point I'm seriously wondering if it really matters. Now, I really don't want the kleptocrat with blood on her hands in the White Trailer again. Don't get me wrong there. But with the way our government bureaucracies have metastasized into their own feudal dukedoms, a Congress that does the bidding of K Street lobbyists, and elections that appear more stage-managed theater acts than real elections....
I don't know if it really matters who gets elected from either party. The "system" has grown so large and assumed a life of it's own that no one person or group of people will have any meaningful impact on its course.
ANY candidate that assisted this bill to pass will lose their sheen with core primary voters.