Posted on 02/05/2016 8:17:13 PM PST by doldrumsforgop
It’s silly to pretend otherwise: As a Democrat, I’d rather run against Ted Cruz than Marco Rubio.
But that’s like saying I’d rather run against herpes than Marco Rubio. Of course I would. I don’t care that Ted Cruz may be smart and strategic. He’s also creepy and cruel, according to just about everyone who’s ever had the misfortune of knowing him for longer than 10 minutes.
I’d also rather run against Donald Trump than Marco Rubio. Again, obvious. But for me, less so than Cruz. Trump isn’t quite as easily caricatured as a cartoon villain. Before his current role as America’s most overexposed xenophobe, he was a celebrity con man whose job was getting people to like and trust him against all odds. Trump is a loser now after Iowa, and perhaps for good, but he is also unpredictable, unscripted, and unafraid to torch the establishment of which he was once a member. There’s no zealot like a convert in search of voters.
Rubio is none of these things—which is why the more I think about him as a potential GOP nominee, the less scared I get.
Rubio would certainly start with some strengths. His youth, background, story, and ability to tell that story will generate another round of fawning media coverage of Rubio as the Republican Obama (hence the echoes of Obama’s Iowa speech in Rubio’s). He will be called the Democrats’ Worst Nightmare by so many annoying pundits, who will quote from the latest Gravis Marketing/Insider Advantage/Outback Steakhouse™ poll that shows Rubio capturing 85.5 percent of the Latino vote and all Americans under 30.
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I did not know he used to be a registered lobbyist.
If the libs who wrote this article think he is an easy one, why don't we nominate someone they fear instead like Cruz?
Rubio is Jeb with a side of red chile, and tortilla chips.
Can Marco Rubio Even Win a Primary?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3368499/posts
Rubio is a Weasel.
Cannot stand the guy
Mario Rubco is now The Designated Loser they would like to stick us with.
Do not fall for the propaganda.
And he looks like a bellboy at an expensive hotel.
Lol, that’s funny.
He's clean, articulate, good looking, a minority, and pretty much has done nothing his whole time in office ...
Haven't we been here before ?
Trump will crush the Bubble Boy(Rubio)
Remember, Democrats ALWAYS say they want to run against the person who scares them and don’t want to run against the one they know they can beat.
ALWAYS.
Rubio is better looking than Jeb.
Nicely stated, my good FRiend.
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This should have come with a barf alert.
Liberalism is sooooo much a mental defect. If it wasn’t for all the damage they do; I’d almost feel sorry for them and their mental disability.
Chris Christie on Fox News with Cavuto on 2/3:
“It’s for Rubio to come out. It’s time to get the boy out of the bubble”.
Rubio is bi..........partisan.
So they say, but will the truth “come out” on the weekend before the presidential election ?
“And he looks like a bellboy at an expensive hotel.”
Put him in “whites” and he’d make a good cabana boy!
How right you are.
Few know that he got his start as Lobby Boy at the Grand Budapest Hotel.
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