Marco Rubio

Rubio won the debate, I guess

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I watched the whole GOP debate Wednesday night, twice, and truly wasn’t impressed by anyone on the stage, including the moderators, but the general consensus was that Marco Rubio won, for some reason. Robby Van Winkle, AKA Vanilla Ice, thinks so. I think Rubio won The GOP debate, Cruz Second and Trump and Carson seemed … Read more

There is no “Republican establishment” and the GOP Presidential slate proves it

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Crossposted from DemocraticDiva.com

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Nothing drives me up the wall these days more than pundits (including many on the putative “liberal” cable news network) engaging in endless, pointless dissections of the GOP and pondering if the “Tea Party fringe” is winning over the “moderate, establishment wing” or vice versa. Stop it, pundits. There is no “Republican establishment” today. None. If there (arguably) was one in the past it does not exist anymore. I’ll let Grover Norquist, writing at The American Spectator, explain it to you:

So where does this narrative of liberal Republican leaders battling the Tea Party grassroots come from?

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A Prediction, and a Word About Predictions

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Posted by Bob Lord On Morning Joe this morning they showed a poll of Obama against each of the R candidates, other than Paul, among Latino voters. They each pulled a whopping 14% of the vote. That’s astounding. In 2004, Bush pulled somewhere in the 40s. McCain did worse than Bush, but way better than … Read more