The rubio situation can easily be summed up. He was elected to represent conservatives. The very first chance he had he betrayed them with the Go8 amnesty treason. The voters never forgot and let him feel their disappointment at the very first opportunity. His career is over, I don’t believe he’ll even get elected mayor of Miami after this.
Yes, and his entire career path was based on voters forgetting. No doubt Schumer whispered plausible lies in his ear about how Reagan signed an amnesty and voters got over it, and how the future belonged to those on board the immigration train. The whole establishment was repeating similar lies so it was easy for a novice like Rube to believe them.
Of course Schumer didn't give a crap about Rube's future, he just needed a willing dupe to soften up the Tea Party opposition. And worst of all for Rube the whole scheme failed. The only thing worse than screwing up is screwing up for nothing. Rube was exposed as a lightweight, unable to stick to his alleged principles and unable to successfully betray them.
In 2016 he was DOA because he'd been a zombie for five years.