Rubio is not Bush
Good article about Jeb and Marco. Excerpt:
Primary seasons, though, are when the tectonic undercurrents of our politics reveal themselves. And what’s become clear in the months since is that Bush fundamentally misread the seismic signs of the moment.Having been out of elective office for eight years, Bush took too long to grasp that the anger fueling conservative revolt was as much about the Republican establishment — with which the Bush name had become synonymous — as it was about Obama.He entered the race without even thinking through a response to questions about his brother’s foreign policy. Somehow he conceived of his own candidacy as tangential to the family legacy.
It would be hard as a politician to see yourself the way others see you, and in the case of Jeb Bush, he never seemed to grasp the infamy of his last name with certain people.
I make no secret I support Marco Rubio at this point. I like him better on immigration and domestic policy than Ted Cruz, he has a better temperament and he's more electable.
My contributions to candidates so far this time have been ethnically based -- I've contributed only to Latinos. While I'd be thrilled with either Cruz or Rubio as the nominee, I find myself preferring Rubio, but for slightly different reasons than Pauli. I strongly prefer Rubio on national defense (and Cruz on shrinking the federal government).
ReplyDeleteThe big news out of this cycle for me is that Rubio is considered as the "establishment" candidate. If that's true, that means we conservatives have won the battle within the party. Now to win the Nation.
While George Will has previously compiled what he sees as Marco Rubio's record of bad judgement (Rubio's actions with respect to the judicial rights of college males charged with rape should alarm any parent with a son), and while Ace of AOSHQ has placed himself in the vanguard of tarring Rubio as the business as usual "establishment" candidate, and while Laura Ingraham is touting a Cruz-Trump hook-up, as I've previously maintained" it's just hard at this point to see anyone other than Marco Rubio harvesting that non-base middle of voters without which Republicans simply lose the election.
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