Rubio doth look to be sucking on a lemon in that picture. Or does he always look like that?
Alternate headline: Loser Launches Losing Strategy Seemingly Unaware He Is A Loser
Vote Marco Rubio / Jeb Bush in 2016
Ask yourself - what’s the worst that could happen?
Don’t you have to have delegates in the first place, in order to hold on to them?
Seems fair to me. If I was Rubio I would demand the same thing. Don’t let your delegates go to Trump!
So he thinks his 167 delegates will allow him to be kingmaker of some sort?
He could only be a kingmaker if there’s a contested convention, so, sure if you believe that’s not possible, then no, Rubio can’t be a kingmaker. But in that case, even Cruz’s much larger delegate total doesn’t let him be a kingmaker either, if Trump has a majority on his own. If we don’t have a contested convention, what that means is that we have a king before the convention opens, and it’s just a coronation, and how many delegates anyone else has is irrrelevant.
If the convention is contested, then, by definition, that means that Rubio and Kasich, together or individually, will hold enough delegates to grant or deny a majority, to be kingmakers. It is possible that neither Cruz nor Trump will have enough delegates that, when added to Rubio’s, is a majority, but Kasich will have enough for that purpose, so Kasich gets to be a kingmaker, but not Rubio.
Of course, all the above reasoning is based on the idea that the delegate totals are fixed quantities. In reality, there will be seating challenges and other procedural votes that, if it’s close enough to be contested, could well decide the nomination well before the first ballot. No one’s delegates are bound to take instruction from the candidate they are pledged to on those procedural votes, so those votes could get very interesting. Rubio has to at least claim relevance, and the clearest role he can claim is that of kingmaker, to keep his delegates together for those procedural votes. Those are the votes he can sell for the highest price, presumably getting something for his delegates as well to buy their loyalty (in this case a willingness to be sold to the highest bidder).
Private citizens don’t have delegates. Narcissists have such a hard time letting go and little boots is no different.
Good luck with that, Marco.
( You might want to hone your 'Thinking on Your Feet"-skills, they are quite bad, I hear)
