Posted on 01/24/2016 7:34:24 AM PST by Oklahoma
This is just the bloodletting the Republican Party needs Democrats have spent years raging about the rise of super PACs and the millionaires and billionaires who fund them. Maybe they should start laughing instead, because the largest super PAC in history may come to be best known for taking down the Republican candidate who may have had the best chance to win in 2016.
On Thursday, we learned that 35 percent of the money spent so far by the super PAC supporting Jeb Bush has been used to target the candidacy of his fellow Floridian, Marco Rubio. According to Jeremy Peters of the New York Times, the anti-Rubio ad buys by Right to Rise (R2R) have totaled a staggering $20 million.
That’s $20 million out of the nearly $60 million through which the super PAC’s honcho, Mike Murphy, has burned since R2R began its spending spree six months ago.
Bush raised $103 million for R2R before he officially announced his bid. The day he declared in June, it became illegal for him or anyone on his campaign to communicate with Murphy or anyone at Right to Rise in any way about politics.
From then to now, Bush has gone from a high of 17 percent in the Real Clear Politics poll average in July to 5 percent today. In New Hampshire, the first primary state, he’s gone from 16 percent to 8 percent.
R2R’s efforts on Bush’s behalf haven’t borne fruit, to put it mildly.
Except for this: It may well be that R2R’s relentless assaults on Rubio helped stall the Florida senator’s rise in November and December.
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His mom told him to.
Because Jeb speaks Mexican Spanish and Rubio speaks Cuban Spanish....
Hi mom told him to only pick on someone smaller than himself.
Fighting their way to the bottom. ;-)
Maybe it’s simply the pragmatic calculation that - being moderate Republicans from Florida who claim they can maximize the Hispanic vote for the GOP - they are electorally fungible.
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Yeb! has to have ALL of the amnesty supporters because there are not enough of them to go around.
Heb was Marco’s sponsor and mentor from the earliest days of Marco’s political career. He and his people feel that Marco running this time is a betrayal. So they’re out to stop him.
In before the midget boxer .gif.
Trump is doing his best to make Jeb win if he doesn’t.
Sounds just like Hillary...entitled to the job...Hillary/jeb ticket....
The truth is Cuban Americans and Mexico Americans don’t like each other. Now I don’t like ant hyphenated Americans so screw them all. This may be a feud that goes way back to something that started as a cat fight or identity or whatever. Since these are both hyphenation people at their core and Yeb can’t seperate his AMERICAN CHILDRENS FUTURE from his MEXICAN WIFES PAST I say good riddence to both these pandering fools.
Why can politicians from a county, state, nation simply do what is the very best for his constituants? Why the international distribution of what little is left of our nation heritage, wealth, resouces, future ? The all want to sell us into bondage to someone for pennies on the dollar or even pennies on the million. Because it’s not theirs. The Dont share that heritage and future of the United States of America. They are all international citizens and think they are above it all. F’ck Bush, f’ck Rubio, F’ck Clinton x3, F’ck Sanders, F’ck the Kryspy Kream, mailman son, just piss on them all. It’s time to make their lives hell, their families life hell. The need to be ridiculed whenever they poke their heads out of their fortresses.
Jeb wants to bring the third world here and be KING OF THE GRATEFUL 3RD WORLD.
Rubio wants to best his mentor...
Yeb and Rubio are both GOPe amnesty trash.
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