Rubio: Corporate stooge, comes in third place, last name has that ‘ferrin’ sound, checkered history on immigration reform, GOP establishment’s new darling (Jeb is DOA)…etc.
And, Trump and Cruz are lining him up in their sights as we speak.
He’s the new GOP “savior”?
African American women were attacked by whites in Albany NY.
I attribute that in large part to Donald Trump (along with lizard enablers of the MSM, like Jimmy Fallon, Wolf Blitzer and Chuck Todd). Trump is a blight on the American CULTURAL scene (forget political). He is the visible perversion resultant from dysfunctional structures, mores and sanctions.
His existence as a viable Presidential candidate bodes ill for the United States, whether he wins one, two, four or none more Primaries and every minute (including my own) spent in discussing him is analogous to necessary time discussing how to rid the land of a scourge.
As far as I’m concerned, Trump is really nothing more than a mass of #2… 
Nope. Frothy said he’s off to tour every county in South Carolina…
Forbe’s did an analysis of Trump’s wealth and very publicly shot down his claims of $10 billion, whittling it down to roughly $ 4.5 billion. It truly pissed off Trump. He equates his very being with his wealth:
“I think you’re trying to make me as poor as possible,” says Trump, whose campaign filings claim that this year alone his worth has risen from $8.7 billion ($3.3 billion of that from brand goodwill) to more than $10 billion. Over the course of our interviews, he raises that to “much more than 10 billion” and says that another “respected magazine that’s coming out” is going with $11.5 billion.
“You’re gonna look bad,” he adds. “And look, all I can say is FORBES is a bankrupt magazine, doesn’t know what they’re talking about. That’s all I’m gonna say. ‘Cause it’s embarrassing to me.”
My overarching question for Trump is a simple one: Does he think FORBES uses a different methodology to value him than it uses for every other real estate titan on The Forbes 400? “Yes, I do,” he responds. “Yes, I do.”
Really? Why? “Because I’m famous, and they’re not. Because when [Richard] LeFrak had dinner at Joe’s Stone Crab, he calls me up and he says, ‘Could you help me get a reservation?’ ”
Don't for one second mistake the fact Trump has his eye on his business at all times. In the end his personal wealth validates him, to himself, much more than this race does. He could live without being President. He couldn't live without the ability to lord his money and status and fame over others.Well, the Iowa caucuses have convinced me. Rubio will be the next President. After all, he’s garnered the demonstrable support of 0.013% of the American public, or, more accurately, 0.019% of the white population. Unstoppable!!
I think that’s a salient point. Rump’s followers are very far gone and he hasn’t shown any inclination to want to pull them back from the brink. Let’s the Rube is their nominee. How does he get Rump’s supporters on board? If he even CAN get them, there’s no way that flies in the general election. “Etch-A-Sketching” in the general is one thing but that’s another entirely.
Marco Rubio is a low life in high heels.
The Rube has yet to break the 50% threshold in any meaningful election, and has benefited from Trump’s failure to see him coming. He is a a sock puppet for Republican Donors who is about to get the attention he deserves.
I would only disagree with that to the extent that I think he couldn’t live without the ability to lord his fame over others. Considering how many times he’s gone through bankruptcy court, I think it’s the fame and notoriety that he thrives on more than the money. He’ll always find some way to get some scratch.
Not likely.
Rubio is pretty but seriously, he is just as much a nutjob and the rest of the clowns on the bus.
Yep. He’ll benefit from being the last (establishment) man standing. And Rethug donors are probably quite happy that he was able to “hold his own.” In Iowa. Yayyyy.
But, once he loses Florida to Rump, that’ll be a different story.
This is great. It personifies what I was just going to say in words.
Your assumptions about Trump are accurate. What I am concerned about are two things.
(a) The damage that Trump’s candidacy achieves in exacerbating xenophobia
(b) The Lizard-brained MSM enablers of Trump
The first thought in my head when I saw those black women crying on television was,
“We failed them. We did not stress to them that the battle never stops”
Inattention, people “not coming out”, inertia and somnolence in an electorate comes often from misdirection and miseducation. There was always enough racism in the United States (even with the Reagan bullshit, the “fun 1990s” and the miracle of Obama’s election) to have warranted vigilance.
The first thing we did wrong was letting the Right snooker Americans into hating unions (which is hilarious, since all of the athletes people worship like God got their riches from collective bargaining). The second thing we did was to let them consolidate the media and make it profit-driven. The third thing we did was forget that Civil Rights (like all rights) must be valued and maintained. By the time FOX came around, we were pretty much softened up.
And I am deeply sorry that those girls experienced things in college THAT I NEVER DID.
Marco’s problem is he has more flip flops than any other teenager in Florida.
Unions were dominant in Rust Belt and municipal sectors when they were more prevalent. I posit it wasn’t unions that were successfully diminished and demonized, but their members. The GOP dog whistled to white America that unions enabled blacks, government employees and teachers to get too much pay, too many benefits, and too good of working conditions for “what they deserved”. So, it wasn’t the unions that were the target for destruction. It was blacks (manufacturing in urban centers), the evil government (city/state/Fed workers) and women (the predominate gender in the teaching profession, at least pre-school through elementary and high school). Tearing down and crippling those workers was merely destroying groups that supported ($$$) and voted mainly Democrat. The fact it also wiped out unions was a twofer.
The dude is indeed hardcore Tea Party. 538 did a run-down of Rubio’s votes. Spoiler alert, he is firmly in the Freedom Caucus - to the right of most members actually. It is really just his apostasy of trying to broker an immigration deal after the 2012 drubbing that has them up in arms.
Can Marco Rubio Save Republicans From Themselves?
That horse bolted from the barn during the Reagan administration.
A competent, on-point Jeb Bush could (and should) have pounded prissy Marco Rubio into dust before it got this far.