Say farewell to Little Marco. The man who was going to save the Republican party from itself (and from Donald Trump) made a pitiful showing in the primary in his home state of Florida, coming in more than 400,000 votes behind Trump. Faced with the inevitable, Rubio suspended his campaign and with it, quite possibly, his political future.
Much has been made of Rubio’s willingness to stoop to Trump’s level in the days lead up to last week’s primaries by suggesting that his rival’s mind wasn’t the only thing that was small.
But the fact of the matter is, Rubio was a lousy candidate for the Republican primaries and ran a poor campaign. He had pinned his hopes on the establishment crowning him the fresh face of the future in a year when love from the party elite was the kiss of death. His campaign made a series of stupid mistakes, focusing on ads instead of retail politics. And his reputation as a brilliant debater took a hit when he revealed himself to be a robot.
Democrats were rightly afraid of Rubio as the strongest candidate they could face in November. He was the pretty face of the far-right craziness that plagues the GOP. Rubio’s proposals were as bad as Trump’s and often even worse.
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But Rubio had the potential to appeal to Latino voters (or at least a small portion not offended by his immigration flip-flop) and to the general voting public as a sunny, articulate, moderate-sounding and presumably sane candidate. Those qualities are in short supply among Republicans these days, even if its debatable Rubio ever possessed them.
Instead, Rubio is joining the ash heap of failed 2016 candidates. Moreover, convinced of his ability to win the nomination, he started burning his bridges while he was still standing on them. He had pledged not to run for re-election in the Senate, although tonight’s results showed that voters may not have nominated him again in any case. He had the worst attendance record of any Senator, so it’s hard to know if anyone will miss him when he leaves.
Where will Marco go next? Assuming the foam party is out of the question, probably not politics, at least for a while and possibly forever. The Florida governorship will be up for grabs in two years, but it’s hard to see how Rubio could recover by then.
One of the problems Rubio would have faced if he was the primary is his questionable financial history. He apparently wishes he could pull down the big bucks that his pals in the private sector do. which would solve his ongoing money woes. While the Republican elite may not control the party base, they do control a lucrative conservative apparatus, and Rubio will likely find a lucrative sinecure where he can lick his wounds.
As for the Democrats, they dodged a bullet. Whether it’s Trump, Cruz or a brokered convention, the odds against a Republican presidential victory look a lot slimmer now than they did when Rubio was still in the race.
tyintenn
He’s kinda hot – in his own, quirky, Republican way…..
stanhope
“Pretty face?” hell no. He is one of those who may have been attractive in youth but time was cruel. He smells gay and inauthentic from a mile up wind. Little Marco in the park after hours with a guy. Little Marco at the foam parties in a speedo. He was a punk when he was running and he’s still a punk now that he was eviscerated in Florida. What I have to say to Little Marco is …….Buh bye bitch. Now go find a park bench in a place “known for gay men trysting” and do your thing. LOL LOL LOL
Ian Watson
Ian Watson
ANOTHER DICK HEAD BITE’S THE DUST!
1EqualityUSA
He’s done. John Gallagher, thanks for the new word (new to me) “sinecure.” Had to look this one up. Even my spouse never heard of it.
Marco thought the Senate was boring. Likely, his colleagues thought he was boring. Tea Party waste-case counterfeit.
Stanhope, He will not age well. His bone structure, pouty mouth, receding hairline, and doughy eyes will reveal the phony living beneath his sallow, moist, cool skin. Most ugly of all were his ideas, shared by every one of his Republican compadres.
Let’s all vote the GOP into oblivion for at least a century. File for absentee if you must, but let your voices be heard in 2016.
Brian
Marco Rubio let the whole thing get to his head.
Bob LaBlah
Personally I think had he kept his mouth shut about Obama after Christy called him on it during that debate he just “might” have had a better chance at survival. I was hoping so bad Christy would have pulled out the Energizer Bunny and made the comparison. He sounded just like the little fool he appears to be just going on and on, WORD for WORD, about Obama. It was an obvious memorized speech that only he thought was original. He will now get laughed off of the stage at the convention. Don’t count him totally out because it was during the 1988 Democratic convention where the crowd started booing Bill Clinton’s extremely long WINDED speech (I changed the channel before it was over) but four years later look what happened.
Both he and Cruz have miscalculated white men and women. After eight years of “Obama” do they honestly think that they are not seen as “another” one trying to get into office, no matter how “white” they try to appear and sound? I bet when the surveys come in of the near 600k votes he got 595k of those were from his fellow welfare freeloaders, Cubans, than any other ethnic group. Cubans simply do not understand the resentment other latinos have for them. They get Carte Blanch once they arrive while everyone else is told to step to the end of the line. People have grown tired of them and their arrogance and it is beginning to show.
1EqualityUSA
He left Cr!stie standing in rain:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/trump-rewards-obedient-christie-by-mocking-him.html
1EqualityUSA
Now, if Rub i ohh endorses his nibs, he can be humiliated too. So degrading.
Mark Reimer
#NoneTooBrightRoleCallMissingRapidlyFadingExPrettyBoiLooser
o.codone
@Ian Watson: You said: ANOTHER DICK HEAD BITE’S THE DUST!
You have something against dick heads? I’ll take yours. You gonna eat that? hhaahahahahah.
Kieran
Poor Little Marco.
Desert Boy
Traditional Marriage Marco is a loser. Someone told him to market his sorry ass to the Archie Bunker class. The thing is, the Archie Bunker class is dying off. Marco is a retro candidate. Adios, Traditional Marriage Marco.
1EqualityUSA
Chris Christie’s theme song for Trump’s 2016 Klandidacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjeXCbe8GdQ
1EqualityUSA
Rubio, “Now I wanna be your chihuahua…”
Glücklich
Foamy can hang out with Frothy.
robho3
@stanhope: inauthentic —- that is the perfect word to describe him!
Kangol
Vete, cabróncita, no molestes!
John McMillin
he should just come out of the closet… we’d welcome him more than Cruz any day. It’s kind of a shame that he completely sold his soul just so 80 year old white folk will embrace him
1EqualityUSA
Kangol, he’s such a dumbass, he’ll have TrusTed translate this for him in a public forum.
Frankie Trice
Especially since he doesn’t go to work anyway.
Rhoderick Gates
Yesterday night, he was last seen coming out of a car park in Miami, after getting a blowjob from a 20-something fellow. No one recognised him in the darkness except for a hot-dog server. He said Marco looked ‘weird’
dave lopes
Trump knocks another one out…LOL
redzebra1
Here is Politico’s self-admission of how he was built up artificially and was a stereotypical duplicitous politician (his biggest flip-flop on immigration);
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/marco-rubio-2016-wrong-predictions-213739
It’s a long, but informative article, of self-admission and exposure of the media and political fraud he was from DAY ONE.
Yes, Florida has this posh image as a tourist resort for the hot weather, nice beaches, etc. Most of Florida is a ghetto dump. He never did anything to make it better.