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POLITICO Florida Playbook: RUBIO’s Cruz problem? – BUSH’s Cuban comment...
The Politico ^ | December 29, 2015 | Matt Dixon and Kristen East

Posted on 12/29/2015 1:06:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A STRANGE COMPARISON -- "Marco Rubio's big problem--and his party's," by The Washington Post's Paul Waldman: "Believe it or not, the Iowa caucuses are just over a month away. And Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) -- establishment darling and the cognoscenti's assumed front-runner -- is heading to Iowa for a bus tour, bringing along a shiny new endorsement from Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, head of the special committee on Benghazi. Can you feel the excitement? Probably not, which is why this is an excellent demonstration of Rubio's problem, and the problem the GOP is facing as the actual voting approaches.

"While everyone waits for the voters to finally figure out that they ought to be supporting Rubio, the only candidate who at the moment looks like he might be able to defeat Donald Trump is Ted Cruz. From the perspective of the party's fortunes in the general election, that would be sort of like being cured of your electoral syphilis by contracting gonorrhea." http://wapo.st/1meDeUX

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TOPICS: Florida; Iowa; Texas; Campaign News; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cruz; cuba; demagogicparty; districtofcolumbia; election2016; florida; kristeneast; marcorubio; mattdixon; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; paulwaldmaniowa; politico; rubio; tedcruz; texas; trump; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost

1 posted on 12/29/2015 1:06:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Sir Rubio is running a “brilliant” NO SHOW campaign. /s

Brave Sir Rubio ran away
Bravely ran away away
When the Budget reared its ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled
Yes, brave Sir Rubio turned about
And gallantly he chickened out

Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat
Bravest of the brave, Sir Rubio!


2 posted on 12/29/2015 1:07:41 PM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Cheap Labor Express is finding it much more difficult to nominate their amnesty candidate this time around.

Yeb! and Rubberio are bombing out.
Kasuck and NJFatBoy never got off the ground.


3 posted on 12/29/2015 1:13:15 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s interesting that the Washington Post likens Donald Trump to syphilis and Ted Cruz to gonorrhea. The mainstream media is getting incredibly desperate that their standard “playbook” for maintaining power for the progressives no longer works. The GOPe, the ‘RATS and the media with whom they are in bed are at a loss and cannot understand the “power” that Trump and Cruz have. And they have this power because they are actually aligned with the American people.


4 posted on 12/29/2015 1:20:07 PM PST by House Atreides (Cruz or lose! Do TG & Boogieman have to be asses every day?)
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The media’s real class aren’t they? They’re just the best, and a great example of decency and goodness that all Americans strive to be..


5 posted on 12/29/2015 1:23:27 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
is heading to Iowa for a bus tour

Without a bus, using a private plane.

Marco Rubio to Kick Off Iowa Bus Tour Without a Bus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3377734/posts

6 posted on 12/29/2015 1:24:08 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Pundits who are not Republicans, or genuine independents don’t even know that people like me exist. I fought for this country. I have a Ph.D. and other letters indicative of earned advanced degrees. I expect to vote for the Republican candidate, as long as there is no obvious hanky-panky. I will vote for Trump if he is the Republican nominee, or Cruz or any of the others. If there is hanky- panky by the Republican establishment: however, I well might vote for a ticket including Trump, and/or Cruz if I think it has a chance. The time is ripe IMHO for a new party, and it would likely draw heavily from both parties, perhaps forcing RINOs and liberal Dems to have little political pity parties that play around the feet of the new BPOC. (Big Party on Capitol Hill) I can conjure up no circumstance under which I would vote for anyone in the Democratic Party for President or anything. What a pity party they, their media, academic and organized labor friends, and cohort of useless idiots will have if we in the real America gain control of the White House, and in a couple of years the House, and soon after, the Senate, as most of the maggots decide nobody likes them, even themselves.


7 posted on 12/29/2015 1:28:47 PM PST by mathurine
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8 posted on 12/29/2015 1:49:29 PM PST by reviled downesdad (It's time for an AMERICAN CRUZade !)
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GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TRUMP!


9 posted on 12/29/2015 2:03:45 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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"that would be sort of like being cured of your electoral syphilis by contracting gonorrhea."

What a vulgar way of expressing oneself. Are these the same people who were upset over the use of the term "schlonged"?

10 posted on 12/29/2015 3:15:43 PM PST by free-in-nyc (Freeping from the heart of the occupation)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Partisan Media Shills Alert!


11 posted on 12/30/2015 11:44:28 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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