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How will we know if he drops out? He doesn’t show up for his current job.
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Rubes aides want him to drop out before he embarrasses them by losing his “home” state by double digits!
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Name names or it didn’t happen. For all we know this is just another Cruz dirty trick.
All that being said, I don’t know why journalists keep printing/reporting stuff from anonymous sources. Journalist say, “trust us, this is real.” But journalist have also reported so many lies as facts from anon sources.
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JEB’s sobbing 3am hang-up calls are another clue…
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Hell, I don’t like the guy, and losing Florida would end his campaign, but he’s not assured of losing it by any means. Nate Silver has his chances there at about 1-in-3. There is a big upside in going, since the primaries afterwards favor Rubio.
If he really thinks he’s a better man for not trying, then everything Donald Trump ever said about him is right, down to implying Rubio has a little willy.
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[quote=“AZJude, post:3, topic:34164, full:true”]
Rubes aides want him to drop out before he embarrasses them by losing his “home” state by double digits!
[/quote]It’s not his “home” state. It is indeed his home state, no scare quotes needed. Unlike Ted Cruz, Rubio was born in America. Give the devil his due.
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Cruz’s people might be worried about what’s coming in the next Trump attack.
Could be the end of Marco’s political career.
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I thought today’s polling was actually good for him? A lead in early voting and close to Trump?
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Which wouldn’t be surprising, given that everything Trump says about Rubio is stuff we Democrats have been saying about him for years - aside from the little willy and the birther spin.
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Well, losing Florida by double digits would tend to discount his utility as a VP pick, in order to help the R team win Florida. But wouldn’t dropping out in order to avoid defeat kind of make the same point?
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He’s still going to lose!
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But…but…Marcomentum?
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Iceberg, right ahead!
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Oh my. Sad to say, I’ve been there, although thankfully it is now a long time ago.
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He could fall on his sword, endorse Cruz against Trump and walk away saying he did it for the good of the republic.
None of them are gonna win anyway and he might make himself look like a hero instead of a looooooser.
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In a dynasty far, far away (from power, unless Commissioner of the Texas General Land Office counts)
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Marco has been doing a pretty good job of ending his own political career. Do you remember the story of the fisherman who finds the magic lamp or genie and keeps asking for bigger and bigger prizes until he asks for the impossible and ends up right back where he started? I think it might be Hans Christian Andersen. That seems like a good metaphor for Rubio’s career.
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As long as Marco doesn’t endorse in Spanish and sticks to Canadian…