Marco Rubio & Other Messes
So, Marco finally admitted he was running for President, which is good because it means he can’t run for re-election to the Senate. You can only appear on a ballot once in Florida, so if he puts his name on the ballot in the Presidential primary, he can’t have it on for the Senate primary challenge by the Tea Party if no one else.
I have seen people who are actually treating him as a viable candidate, which is absurd. He isn’t crazy enough to win the wingnut vote, and he lacks the fund-raising capability to make it through the early round without those voters. Further, if Jeb Bush takes the nomination, Marco isn’t viable for the VP slot because of the requirement that Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates be from different states.
In local news the weather forecast is for thunderstorms for the next week. We have already had more than twice the normal rainfall for the entire month, and it is just going to get soggier as a cold front has stalled north of us.
It isn’t of Biblical proportions, but it is at least one book’s worth. Mobile had over 7 inches of rain yesterday.
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Mobile needs to send rain our way. We’re at 5% of normal snowpack :(.
Rubio is a teabagger and Jeb is not, Jeb is more of an establishment Crist-type Republican (before the teabaggers ran Crist out of the Republican Party). It’ll be interesting to see who wins the Republican primary in Florida between the two of them. Still, I haven’t seen any indication that the teabaggers are capable of organizing enough states to be nominated for President even in today’s crazy Republican party, and besides, the baggers have Ted Cruz, who is crazy enough to make Rubio look sane.
It will be interesting to see who replaces Rubio in Florida…. now *that* is going to be a free-for-all!
Rubio won the Senate seat with the support of the Cuban faction of the Florida GOP, not the TP. He has had to annoy his base to seek support from the TP and that isn’t going down well. John Ellis Bush is old money establishment with the resources to contest the nomination in every state. He can be second or third in the TP states and survive, but none of the others can. It will probably be Clinton v. Bush in 2016.
welllll…… we can’t have two Hispanics from florida running for president…… 😈
ROFL, Hipparchia!
Full points, Hipparchia 😆