Here’s Erick Erickson opining that Rubio needs to man up and campaign with Cruz.
http://theresurgent.com/hey-marco-rubio-time-to-suck-it-up/
He lays all the blame for Rubio’s failed campaign at the boy wonder’s feet. You’d think Erickson and other Republican insiders had nothing to do with Rubio’s choices. Seems to me Marco and his advisers followed their mantras every step of the way. None of it worked and now guys like Erickson act like Rubio’s only problem was failing to heed their wisdom.
Now, for the good of the party, just this once Rubio needs to listen to them. One would never know (while living in their bubble) that little Marco followed the conventional Republican line every step of the way, trying to be everything for everyone (in a way that eviscerated any sense of authenticity the man may have had if he had spoken with his own voice — though we’ll never know since God alone, and not even Marco, knows what that voice might in fact say if it knew how to speak truthfully).
What a sad and pathetic scrum these insiders have become, flailing around helplessly as they try to figure out the key to putting the inconvenient blowhard from Manhattan in his place. Sorry, dipshits; he’s yours; you own him.
A problem with absentee/early voting == AZ GOP early returns: Trump 47%, Cruz 21%, Rubio 17%, and Kasich 10%. Of course some people are still voting for O’Malley who dropped out after IA.
Interestingly Rubio’s positions were to the right of Bush yet both failed dramatically. I’m guessing the supply-side, tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy-floats-all-boats mantra is now a ‘tell’ recognised among prospective constituents which accurately identifies ‘donor class’ candidates. If so that is seriously bad news for establishment Republicans; strategically bad news. Selling that snake oil on behalf of their benefactors was the party’s sole purpose; that it was always bollocks was in the fine print no one was supposed to read.
From Rolling Stone’s Jeb Lund:
A harsh and accurate evisceration of Rubio’s entire career.
Adding Rubio to his roster along with Jeb? could blow Cruz’s cover.
Which is why Rubio’s endorsement seems undesirable for now, as if contaminated with establishment donor cooties. His ‘inspirational’ personal story masks a life of ingratiation and abasement to wealth. Political patronage and ladder-climbing are his only discernible work products in a lengthy career.
Cruz’s ‘cover’ is already fraying with his jockeying for establishment blessing as the lesser pick of two evils. It was not his original plan, which went south on Super Tuesday. I think he’s winging it, playing the refs and stuffing ballots notwithstanding. Unless he’s planning on being Trump’s VP I don’t see an outcome for him that doesn’t involve riot police.
Today’s Politico is all about the GOP establishment sucking it up and accepting Cruz of all people. Of all the unimagined ironies; the schadenfreude and shame are on wide-screen in 3D. Can you believe it? They all swore Cruz was ‘finished in DC’ after his freshman procedural hostage-taking incident and here we are, three short years later and they are all lining up to kiss his defiant, smug ass.
And how choice is this quote from the same piece?:
Huh? So their going to ‘hand their party’ to Cruz instead or are they hoping Trump supporters take matters into their own hands? That’s it? No one of them saw this coming? That’s the best that all that money could buy? Enough for a bonfire that would have been visible from space?
If you ask me, those two leading paragraphs in a mainstream Republican media outlet’s insider strategy story betray a party in such profound disarray as to suggest a terminal condition. Utter failure and collapse. Their cunning gerrymanders had them trapped in a death-spiral of primaries; turning ever Rightward and descending. Boom. Fire engine sirens.
If most of the people on the establishment Republican media/academic gravy train aren’t already looking for work I think they should start. It all seems a terrible investment now.
And Erick, the wannabe gate-keeper, is an idiot. He gets pantsed just about every time he invites controversy, which is to say always. His only usefulness, and this in the realm of entertainment, is as reverse canary, sort of like Kristol. If Erickson is leading the charge on some issue you can bet support for it will soon collapse or hit a pothole. His leading voice in the anti-Trump movement portends its doom and I suspect the media sees this too. Just sayin’. He’s the kiss of death.
Unceremoniously ditching him was the only sensible thing CNN did in a decade.
Rubio already sucks!