Good day all. Last weekend’s GOP(e) Debate showed that Marco Rubio, aka “Marco the Rubot,” wasn’t ready for prime time. With Christie’s successful kamikaze attack, Marco the Rubot sank beneath the waves last Tuesday in New Hampshire’s primary.
Marco the Rubot finished 5th when he was expected to come in no lower than 3rd. Now that the latest establishment candidate is going down by the bows, the Rubot is saying he thinks his best chance now is a brokered convention. Here are the details from the Associated Press:
The best hope of the Republican establishment just a week ago, Marco Rubio suddenly faces a path to his party’s presidential nomination that could require a brokered national convention. That’s according to Rubio and his senior team, who told The Associated Press that the Republican nomination fight will likely go on for another three months, if not longer.
That really depends on a few things. First, it’s pretty much a race between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Many of each candidates supporters could support the other. Both candidates supporters outright despise the candidates that the RINOs running the GOP(e) want.
It’s a worst-case scenario for the Florida senator and many Republican officials alike who hoped to avoid a prolonged and painful nomination fight in 2016.
The way things are going, you might see fights in both party’s conventions. Comrade Bernie has discovered that the Democrat Establishment wants Cankles and will do anything to insure her victory. The Establishment Republicans are horrified that the two people they most despise, Trump and Cruz are crushing all of their favored RINO candidates.
But after a disappointing fifth-place finish in New Hampshire, a long delegate slog to the party’s July presidential nominating convention may be the only chance Rubio has left.
“I don’t think it necessarily is negative,” Rubio said Thursday when asked about the possibility of a so-called brokered, or contested, convention. He cited the Democratic Party’s 2008 clash between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama that went deep into the primary season.
Yeah, you might want to rethink that a bit Rubot. If it does come down to a brokered convention, my guess is that the two candidates with the highest delegate counts will be Trump and Cruz. If the Establishment GOP shoves Rubot, Bush or Kasich down the throats of the base, the base will walk away, and the GOP will lose yet again a very winnable election.
Rubio’s team has predicted a long primary season in recent weeks, almost by necessity, as polls suggested he would struggle to score any wins in the early voting states. He finished third in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire, and is already trying to lower expectations for South Carolina’s Feb. 20 election.
So he’s going to use the Juan! Bush strategy? Claiming that he has “Momentum” and is positioning himself for his inevitable nomination by not winning any primaries? Yep, that sounds like the perfect plan to me.
The public embrace of a possible brokered convention marks an evolution in public rhetoric from Rubio’s team that could be designed to raise alarm bells among Republican officials.
I don’t think the RINOs of the GOP(e) need any more alarm bells. They’re already in a full blown panic of Cruz and Trump. They understand that if either one of them wins the nomination, there is an excellent chance we will have a Trump or Cruz administration. That will mean a general flushing out of the RINOs in the upper echelons of the Republican National Committee.
New Hampshire destroyed any momentum Rubio had coming out of Iowa and for now, at least, locks the senator into a messy muddle in his party’s establishment wing. Both Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Bush beat Rubio in New Hampshire in the contest to emerge as the mainstream alternative to Trump and Cruz.
First, Kasich pretty much shot his wad on that second place finish in New Hampshire. Unlike Iowa, he wasn’t even close to Trump, where in Iowa Trump was only a few points behind Cruz. Bush is continuing his patented “Spend first, spend later, spend some more and when you’ve run out of money, try and claim a victory.” approach to the primaries. Marco the Rubot will just continue saying the same things over and over again until someone finally pulls his plug and packs him off to the everglades.
Rubio campaign manager, Terry Sullivan, told the AP the Republican primary contest could “easily extend to May – “or the convention.” “I would be surprised if it’s not May or the convention,” he said Wednesday.
I see that hope springs eternal for the Rubot’s maintenance crews. Personally, I don’t see a brokered convention, at least on the Republican side, as very likely. Then there is the question regarding the Rubot’s ability to actually last until the convention.
Despite his popularity among many Republican leaders, he will ultimately need to start winning primary contests to remain competitive – especially as Trump and Cruz perform well.
Now there’s the problem. The Rubot is popular among the GOP(e), but the base hates him. He won his seat in the senate with the help of the Tea Party groups and other conservative, Real conservatives, not the phony baloney ones in the running the GOP(e).
He promised, among other things, to oppose amnesty for criminal aliens. He then jumped into the sack with Chucky Cheese Schumer to give both amnesty and citizenship to criminal aliens. There’s a reason he isn’t seeking a second term in the senate, and it isn’t because he’s running for President.
As the primary contest shifts to South Carolina, Rubio wants voters to know he’s learned an important lesson from his experience in New Hampshire.
Would that be to load a bigger library of remarks so you don’t repeat the same thing over and over again? Frankly, even that won’t help him. He’s just another part of the problem, one that the RINO establishment just doesn’t understand.
The rank and file voters have had it with the garbage shoved down their throats since Ronald Reagan. They have reach the “Screw it! Lets just burn the whole thing down.” phase. The gasoline has been poured and the matches lit, and the marshmallows are being readied. Count me as one who wants to see the RINO house burn.
Thatisall
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