Establishment turns to Rubio to stop Trump

[Jackson]

Establishment turns to Rubio to stop Trump


GOP lawmakers and party leaders are rushing to endorse Marco Rubio as the panicked Republican establishment flocks to the man it hopes can stop Donald Trump’s “Terminator”-like march to the presidential nomination.

A crush of lawmakers and party leaders announced on Monday they’d support Rubio for president less than two days after Jeb Bush exited the race.

Rubio’s campaign touted those endorsements, as well as the thousands of supporters he attracted at campaign stops in Arkansas and Tennessee — where voters will cast ballots in the critical Super Tuesday primary on March 1— as evidence Republicans are coalescing behind him as the alternative to Trump.

“He’s the last great hope for moderate conservatives,” said GOP strategist Ryan Williams, a veteran of Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign. “There’s about to be a test of this grand theory that once the mainstream lane consolidates behind a candidate it will be enough to overtake Trump.”

Still, Rubio’s chances of stopping the real estate mogul, or even blunting his momentum before the March 1 contests, appear slim to many observers, at least as long as Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Ben Carson are still in the race and dividing up support behind the front-runner.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/270359-establishment-turn

The GOP is panicked they won't be able to control the next president. Is that good or bad?

 

[Auld Phart]

Establishment turns to Rubio to stop Trump


GOP lawmakers and party leaders are rushing to endorse Marco Rubio as the panicked Republican establishment flocks to the man it hopes can stop Donald Trump’s “Terminator”-like march to the presidential nomination.

A crush of lawmakers and party leaders announced on Monday they’d support Rubio for president less than two days after Jeb Bush exited the race.

Rubio’s campaign touted those endorsements, as well as the thousands of supporters he attracted at campaign stops in Arkansas and Tennessee — where voters will cast ballots in the critical Super Tuesday primary on March 1— as evidence Republicans are coalescing behind him as the alternative to Trump.

“He’s the last great hope for moderate conservatives,” said GOP strategist Ryan Williams, a veteran of Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign. “There’s about to be a test of this grand theory that once the mainstream lane consolidates behind a candidate it will be enough to overtake Trump.”

Still, Rubio’s chances of stopping the real estate mogul, or even blunting his momentum before the March 1 contests, appear slim to many observers, at least as long as Ted Cruz, John Kasich and Ben Carson are still in the race and dividing up support behind the front-runner.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/270359-establishment-turn

The GOP is panicked they won't be able to control the next president. Is that good or bad?

The GOP is panicked they won't be able to control the next president. Is that good or bad?

Good

and it would be good if Sanders won the nomination, so the DNC couldn't control the dem candidate

 

[Jroc]

Rubio a fraud and an opportunist


Marco Rubio, Defense Hawk, a No-Show at 9/11 Committee Meetings

In the anxious weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Florida House hurriedly assembled an elite group of lawmakers to develop plans to keep the state safe.


A spot on the Select Committee on Security was a mark of prominence in Tallahassee. Some of the airplane hijackers had acquired Florida driver’s licenses and trained at flight schools in the state, and legislators lobbied furiously behind the scenes in hopes of being named to the 12-member panel tasked with addressing the state’s newly exposed vulnerabilities.

It was little surprise that Marco Rubio, a promising and charismatic young lawmaker from Miami, secured a coveted position on the committee

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Rubio did not give the job the attention that legislative leaders expected. He skipped nearly half of the meetings over the first five months of the panel’s existence, more than any of his colleagues, according to Florida legislature records. He missed hours of expert testimony and was absent for more than 20 votes — prompting the state House speaker who had given him the assignment to express concern, the committee’s chairman said.


Worth saying again: he's the Barack Obama of the right, a man who ran for the Senate for the sole purpose of running for president. He's a man of no fixed principles, a con man with only his own advancement on his mind.

Marco Rubio, Defense Hawk, a No-Show at 9/11 Committee Meetings

 

[Iceweasel]

Rubio a fraud and an opportunist
Marco Rubio, Defense Hawk, a No-Show at 9/11 Committee Meetings

The autobots are running full steam ahead. Trump have no foreign policy experience, at all. So if that's your criteria, it makes no sense to slam Rubio.

 

[Jroc]

Rubio a fraud and an opportunist
Marco Rubio, Defense Hawk, a No-Show at 9/11 Committee Meetings

The autobots are running full steam ahead. Trump have no foreign policy experience, at all. So if that's your criteria, it makes no sense to slam Rubio.

Rubio is an establishment, opportunist, fraud.

 

[Iceweasel]

Rubio a fraud and an opportunist
Marco Rubio, Defense Hawk, a No-Show at 9/11 Committee Meetings

The autobots are running full steam ahead. Trump have no foreign policy experience, at all. So if that's your criteria, it makes no sense to slam Rubio.

Rubio is an establishment, opportunist, fraud.

Right on cue.

 

[Stephanie]

Rubio a fraud and an opportunist
Marco Rubio, Defense Hawk, a No-Show at 9/11 Committee Meetings

The autobots are running full steam ahead. Trump have no foreign policy experience, at all. So if that's your criteria, it makes no sense to slam Rubio.

Rubio is an establishment, opportunist, fraud.

I agree, he spews all the establishment lines. He's also for Amnesty. He acts like a little twerp Obama and has about the same experience he did. NONE