(03-09-2016 10:22 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-09-2016 09:46 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  Please let Cruz and Rubio get on the same page and go ahead and announce a ticket together.

that's the GOPs only hope to stop Trump at this point...

Ted Cruz with VP Rubio would appeal to the non-Trump conservatives.

That would be terrible.

The "Little Marco" did Him in.

Rubio leap-frogged over Jeb! out of turn. The establishment backed him for a while anyway because they had no choice.

But they will have nothing to do with him after this election. He tried to go out of turn and torpedoed Jeb! Unforgivable.

He also burned all of his Tea Party bridges.

Young man in way too much of a hurry.

The beauty of this republican election cycle is that everyone that loses is toxic. They have all damaged their brand so much that none of them could be VP

(03-09-2016 10:21 AM)miko33 Wrote:  

(03-09-2016 09:55 AM)bullet Wrote:  The really sick part about this is that all the discussion is about how losing Florida would impact Rubio's political future. Its all about him. Not about the party. Not about the country.

Politics is just really drawing so many narcissists.

Rubio's future as a politician may be in peril. IMHO, the establishment is trying to use him as a stooge. Anything to torpedo Trump. I wonder what quid pro quo there will be for him. It's pretty obvious that he's there to take Trump down as opposed to trying to win it himself. His reward? Most likely, a leadership position within the party. My bet is to be the #2 man behind Rancid Prebus...

ETA, either he's the #2 behind Prebus and takes over the GOP party apparatus when Prebus moves on or someone puts him in charge of a PAC where he can siphon off some dough to enrich himself. I see both as the most likely options because he torched his political career for the next decade IMHO.

I think a lot around his campaign has just indicated it was all his team's bad decisions. He was still the insider's preferred candidate until he torched himself. They did NOT send him on a kamikaze run.

(03-09-2016 10:26 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The establishment & Jeb spent 8 months of attack ads on Marco Rubio, who was the only viable alternative for them. But Rubio weathered that fairly well. What he couldnt weather was the stigma that came with him suddenly being the establishment candidate. Its the kiss of death this cycle. And Marco should have known that. But he just couldnt pass up all of that potential money. Now he is looking just like Jeb Bush with that money. And the same results too.

The people who worried about that weren't voting for him anyway. He torched himself with people supporting the governors and people who didn't like Trump. So he went after Trump supporters and didn't get them and lost his more natural supporters.

(03-09-2016 10:25 AM)miko33 Wrote:  

(03-09-2016 10:22 AM)UofMemphis Wrote:  

(03-09-2016 09:46 AM)200yrs2late Wrote:  Please let Cruz and Rubio get on the same page and go ahead and announce a ticket together.

that's the GOPs only hope to stop Trump at this point...

Ted Cruz with VP Rubio would appeal to the non-Trump conservatives.

Honestly I don't see how. Rubio is radioactive now. Maybe Rubio is a cabinet trinket in a hypothetical Cruz administration, but as VP that's a disaster. Maybe Rubio could back Cruz like Christie is backing Trump, but not on the ticket. That ship sailed when Rubio became unhinged.

watch cruz make the same mistake.....

the rnc is lost in space....

(03-09-2016 09:53 AM)bullet Wrote:  Fox seems to be trying to protect the little snowflake. There's this bit in the article:

"There’s a larger issue here, and it has to do with the media drumbeat for whether a candidate—which can become so loud that it drowns out the person’s message and hastens the process.

The Jeb Bush death watch became such a prominent feature of his coverage that it seemed almost anti-climactic when he quit on the night of the South Carolina primary."

And who was constantly beating the drum that Jeb should drop out and that Jeb's employees were looking for jobs with Rubio's campaign-yes-Marco Rubio's people. We're getting crocodile tears here. They were talking about Jeb getting out after he beat Rubio in New Hampshire.

I gained a lot of respect for Jeb after his classy speech following SC. Rubio needs to follow suit now.

(03-09-2016 11:06 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(03-09-2016 10:21 AM)miko33 Wrote:  

(03-09-2016 09:55 AM)bullet Wrote:  The really sick part about this is that all the discussion is about how losing Florida would impact Rubio's political future. Its all about him. Not about the party. Not about the country.

Politics is just really drawing so many narcissists.

Rubio's future as a politician may be in peril. IMHO, the establishment is trying to use him as a stooge. Anything to torpedo Trump. I wonder what quid pro quo there will be for him. It's pretty obvious that he's there to take Trump down as opposed to trying to win it himself. His reward? Most likely, a leadership position within the party. My bet is to be the #2 man behind Rancid Prebus...

ETA, either he's the #2 behind Prebus and takes over the GOP party apparatus when Prebus moves on or someone puts him in charge of a PAC where he can siphon off some dough to enrich himself. I see both as the most likely options because he torched his political career for the next decade IMHO.

I think a lot around his campaign has just indicated it was all his team's bad decisions. He was still the insider's preferred candidate until he torched himself. They did NOT send him on a kamikaze run.

He co-opted the Tea Party movement to get his Senate seat and immediately ditched them and reverted back to establishment.

Jeb! was the insider's choice. Rubio elbowed his way in out of turn. He only became the insider's choice later out of necessity.

Rubio has torched all of his political capital.

If he can rebuild it to keep his political career alive at all in any form it will be quite an achievement. But he is quite the con-man so don't count him out.