I was really surprised when he reversed course and decided to run again. I thought he’d done the job the GOPe wanted done well enough they’d reward him with a high-paying lobbyist job. Now he thinks he’s going to be the key man and all center of attention on this vote. But this is where Pence and Priebus come in, to whip him into shape. Give him a chance to strut and crow and then he will either suck it in and vote the way he should, or he can kiss goodbye the prospect of getting anything done in his Senate career bigger than renaming post-offices. They can hold committee assignments and chairmanships and other incentives up, and he will sit nicely and bed.
Trump himself was urging him to do so because of needing a strong candidate in a major race in Florida not only to hold the Senate seat but help carry the state in the Presidential race. That’s the first thing he’s done the GOPe wanted him to do...they were furious with him for running against Charlie Crist in 2010 and only accepted him when they had no other choice...then furious again when he ran for President when they told him not to do so because it was “Jeb’s turn.”
“I was really surprised when he reversed course and decided to run again.”
Then you don’t understand him. He NEVER reversed course - he knew that he would have more credibility running for President if he ‘claimed’ to not want to stay in the Senate and was willing to leave Washington if he lost. But then he also knew the laws of Florida allowed him to flat-out lie to his voters and then yes, run for Senate again, once he lost his Presidential run...which is what he did.
Fits his pattern to a tee, from the days of him be State House Speaker and PROMISING to never go soft on Illegal Immigration. If Rubio had won on Nov. 8, then we would have been fighting him on Amnesty starting on Nov. 9. Of course he would have claimed to be even more conservative on the issue than Trump...but that ends once the votes are counted for him.
At least with Jeb, Kasich, and other left-wingers, they’re willing to tell our side the truth and let us decide on it - same with most Democrats. Never been true with Rubio, and like Ryan - they are the biggest SNAKES in politics, in either party.