Last Tea Party rally I saw was in support of Newt Gingrich and Donald Trump and I'm sure Michelle Bachmann would be an easy choice over Rubio for Tea Partiers.
How can this article talk about Rubio and Bachmann and conclude that Rubio is the Tea Party favorite of the two?
“How can this article talk about Rubio and Bachmann and conclude that Rubio is the Tea Party favorite of the two? “
Because it’s a leftist rag. What is really sad is how Bachmann went to bat for Rubio during his election.
2011
[snip]Bachmann also made sure to work in a crowd-pleasing reference to Florida’s new Cuban-American U.S. Senator, whose name drew similar cheers when she brought it up Sunday in Sarasota.
Saying the U.S. Senate needs 13 more Republicans to give the GOP filibuster-proof control, Bachmann said she’d like the new senators to be “on the order of Marco Rubio. I want to bring on 13 more people cut out of the same cloth as Marco Rubio and (South Carolina Sen.) Jim DeMint.”
Asked by a reporter about Rubio as a vice presidential nominee, Bachmann said, “I’ve spoken with Marco Rubio. He is a wonderful man. He has a wonderful reputation in Washington, D.C., and I don’t disclose the private contents of the conversation.”