Now come on dude, that's just patently absurd and demonstrably wrong. The establishment hadn't even noticed the tea party when Rubio ran. You're about 5 years off the reservation here. They didn't even get that strategy up and running until 2014 really. Maybe some in 2012. But it wasn't even on the radar in 2010.
I don't know what's so damned hard about looking at the good and the bad in a candidate. But it seems like 99% around here can't do that. Rubio did us all a huge favor. And he's been a turn coat since then. BOTH ARE TRUE. Why are people so insecure that they can't see objectively?
Tea party started in 2009.
Rubio was elected in 2010.
GOP has hated the Tea Party since its inception.
The tactic used by leftists is to infiltrate and destroy from within.
The GOP is comprised of leftists.
The GOPe has been running pretend conservatives for years, way before 2010. Remember, Romney ran for president in 2008. He is one of the biggest pretend or “severe” conservatives out there. There may not have been a TEA party in 2008, but the lying GOPe infiltrators have a much longer history. Marco broadcast the fact that he was a Romney clone when he ran in 2010 right after he won the republican nomination for senate.
I do look at the good and bad in a candidate, but if the bad happens to be they are owned by the GOPe, I stop looking.