The main reason I supported Marco Rubio for Florida Senate early on is because he checks off all of the boxes we as both Republicans and Conservatives need in our candidates. One of those boxes is having someone to reach out to young voters.
Most young voters ran to then Senator Obama in 2008 because they were intrigued by his vision for America of both hope and change. Now that they’re starting to pay attention to his actual policies, little by little they’re starting to turn against him when it comes to dealing with jobs, health care, deficits, and jobs again.
The rub is, while most people reading this agree that we have the right message, we haven’t had the right messengers. Even if John McCain ran a remotely competent campaign in 2008, it’s hard to explain how a reduction in the capital gains tax will help with job creation while he’s yelling at voters to get off of his lawn.
Enter Marco Rubio…
Of course he isn’t, don’t be ridiculous. This is what we in the blogging hustle call a “bait and switch,” where we give you a crazy headline to grab your attention. We’re still going to talk aboot Rubio and RiNO’s, but he’s not the RiNO himself as much as he is the hunter.
Marco Rubio doesn’t stand a chance at becoming the next Senator of Florida, or at least that is the opinion of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) who endorsed Rubio’s primary opponent FL Gov. Charlie Crist the day he announced he was going to run. Rubio has so little a chance, the NRSC felt it necessary to interject themselves a full year and a half before Florida votes.
The biggest issue many of us had with the NRSC’s endorsement of Florida Governor Charlie Crist for Senate, other than the fact that he’s a tool who admits he’ll govern just like Arlen Specter, is the way the braintrust in Washington dismissed any chances Marco Rubio would have. Over a year out, and they thought there was no possible way he could overcome the odds and win the nomination, let alone the senate seat.
