Wow. I mean it doesn't get much worse than this. He loses his home state of Florida by almost 20 points.
He was billed as the GOP's savior, it's Cuban Obama. But I think David Axelrod got it right tonight. He wanted to be all things to all people. A Tea Party radical and the Establishment candidate and everything in between.
His problem was he tried to win without an actual base.
Part of why I think he dropped like a stone when he started trying to out Trump Donald Trump, is it was just so out of character with what he had been trying to project before. It just made him look even more inauthentic.
"Rubio entered the GOP presidential primary in April, announcing his campaign at Miami's Freedom Tower, an emblem of Cuban-American heritage. The eloquent and telegenic senator came out swinging at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as being beholden to the politics of the past."
"Just yesterday, a leader from yesterday began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday," Rubio said. "But yesterday is over, and we are never going back. We Americans are proud of our history, but our country has always been about the future."
"It's an argument that could have proved very effective against the 68-year-old presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who has struggled to appeal to young voters more enamored with scandal-free rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)."
"But if anything, Rubio's platform was substantially more backwards-looking -- an ironic twist given his campaign slogan to usher in a "New American Century." To the disappointment of Rubio and his party, the Florida senator never made it out of the crowded circus that was the 2016 GOP primary to find out."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marco-rubio-ends-2016-campaign_us_56143762e4b0b134ad66b478?t0y93s5naryv3rf6r
If you've read my blog for any length of time at all, you know that I've been a big Rubio basher. I always despised his dishonest, ageist premise of his race he wanted to run against Hillary. Because he is younger in years supposedly he's the candidate of tomorrow.
He may be young, but his ideas are those of yesterday. He now is gone, as he is not running for Senate again.
It's possible he will be missed by some. But not by me. Why lie about it?
He was always very dishonest. He ran against amnesty, then sponsored it in 2013, then has run against it for 3 years since.
No, I can't agree with anyone who says he didn't get exactly what he deserves.
Let us dispel with the fiction that Marco Rubio doesn't deserve such a cruel fate. This is exactly what he deserves.
He was billed as the GOP's savior, it's Cuban Obama. But I think David Axelrod got it right tonight. He wanted to be all things to all people. A Tea Party radical and the Establishment candidate and everything in between.
His problem was he tried to win without an actual base.
Part of why I think he dropped like a stone when he started trying to out Trump Donald Trump, is it was just so out of character with what he had been trying to project before. It just made him look even more inauthentic.
"Rubio entered the GOP presidential primary in April, announcing his campaign at Miami's Freedom Tower, an emblem of Cuban-American heritage. The eloquent and telegenic senator came out swinging at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as being beholden to the politics of the past."
"Just yesterday, a leader from yesterday began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday," Rubio said. "But yesterday is over, and we are never going back. We Americans are proud of our history, but our country has always been about the future."
"It's an argument that could have proved very effective against the 68-year-old presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who has struggled to appeal to young voters more enamored with scandal-free rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)."
"But if anything, Rubio's platform was substantially more backwards-looking -- an ironic twist given his campaign slogan to usher in a "New American Century." To the disappointment of Rubio and his party, the Florida senator never made it out of the crowded circus that was the 2016 GOP primary to find out."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/marco-rubio-ends-2016-campaign_us_56143762e4b0b134ad66b478?t0y93s5naryv3rf6r
If you've read my blog for any length of time at all, you know that I've been a big Rubio basher. I always despised his dishonest, ageist premise of his race he wanted to run against Hillary. Because he is younger in years supposedly he's the candidate of tomorrow.
He may be young, but his ideas are those of yesterday. He now is gone, as he is not running for Senate again.
It's possible he will be missed by some. But not by me. Why lie about it?
He was always very dishonest. He ran against amnesty, then sponsored it in 2013, then has run against it for 3 years since.
No, I can't agree with anyone who says he didn't get exactly what he deserves.
Let us dispel with the fiction that Marco Rubio doesn't deserve such a cruel fate. This is exactly what he deserves.
"This is exactly what he deserves."
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Mike! Your nemesis is no more.
Yes he is.
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