At this point, I think the only thing Trump genuinely likes is the attention he gets from saying crazy shit. I seriously doubt he’s given more than 5 minutes of thought to Putin in his entire life.
“A world leader admires me? That’s terrific. This guy’s a winner! Excellent leadership. What country’s he from?”
The Cruz campaign has been sending out this anti-Rubio mailer.
The next Republican debate should be fun!
Not only that, but your link shows how woefully incorrect it would be to think that:
Cruz is anti-TPP? That’s an odd position for him to take. Is he a conservative, or does he just hate Obama?
It’s not blindingly obvious?
It is, but I had hoped Cruz was just being ideologically inflexible, not making about his personal issues with the President.
Today Cruz fired his spokesman, Rick Tyler, after Tyler posted an anti-Rubio video that impugns Rubio’s religious convictions.
Apparently it’s video in which Rubio passes someone (a Cruz staffer?) who is holding a Bible. The audio is a little unclear, but Rubio says he told the person something to the effect of “Got a good book there. Got all the answers in it.” Which makes sense and is consistent with Rubio’s image.
The Cruz people, though, added captions to the video to make it look like Rubio says “Not many answers in it.”
Looks like this is the version of the video Cruz’s people posted: - YouTube
And yet the guy gets fired for it.
No shit, Sherlock, what did you think he would do?
What do you expect? He is a frontrunner for a party which has long since erased the difference between the two.
Trump would be embarrassing, but I think Rubio or Cruz would be worse. Here’s an article that compares Trump and Rubio, and Trump comes out much better.
Trump would be bad, but it sounds like Rubio could be a lot worse.
“Dippy’s Kaboom (And Tyler’s Too!)” would make a fun bumper sticker… 
These two have to get together and unite behind Rubio ASAP or they are both toast. Rubio could offer (openly or secretly, not sure which would be best) either the VP spot or a promise to nominate Cruz for Scalia’s vacant SCOTUS seat.
I don’t understand why anyone is considering Rubio for anything. One issue I think should be concerning to almost everyone is he is an unmitigated disaster with his personal finances.
Rubio’s second home nearly went to forclosure when he failed to pay the mortgage for 5 months. He eventually sold the home for $18,000 less than he paid for it. He took out a home equity loan on his first home and didn’t report it on his financial disclosure forms. He mixed campaign and personal funds “by mistake”, and used a Republican party credit card to repair his minivan and charged $7,000 on the card in order to attend a family reunion. He double-billed the Republican party for airline travel, he liquidated his $68,000 retirement account for which he had to pay more than $20,000 in taxes in penalties (so not only is he a spendthrift, he’s stupid), he failed to disclose $34,000 in personal expenses from $600,000 collected from two political committees he and his wife ran, he paid family members for expenses that were incorrectly labeled, he borrowed money from his family to pay back misappropriated funds and lied about his diligence in paying back party funds he spent personally, missing payments for a 6-month period, and when he joined the Florida legislature, he had more than $30,000 in personal credit card debt. There is still information on personal expenditures he hasn’t disclosed, and he obfuscates when asked about them directly.
At best, Rubio is a financial mess who can’t even balance a checkbook. More likely, as Simon Maloy says, he’s a corruptible sneak.
This is who Republicans want to be President?
If that’s the price to stop Trump then the sane choice is to let Trump win.
For America, agreed. Not for them though.
No, for them too. You don’t reward a party saboteur with a goddamn seat on the Supreme Court. Sheesh.
By “them” I meant Rubio and Cruz. But I think you are underestimating the appeal of a deal that stops Trump, gets their lackey in the White House, and a reliable conservative on the Court for years. (Although Cruz is such a phony, who knows what he might turn out to be once he is confirmed to a lifetime appointment.)
but based on how much antipathy there is to Cruz amongst his Senate colleagues, what’s the chance some Republican Senators might mount a filibuster?
Cruz is not a reliable conservative as far as the party establishment thinks. He’s a nut job who actively fucked with incumbents primaries because they weren’t conservative enough for him and his tea party buddies. And if Rubio is considered such a lackey, why did everyone wait for Bush to drop out before jumping on board?
If they were going to promise Cruz something it would have to be something you could take away from him. He’s the type that doesn’t stay bought. Supreme court is a ludicrous suggestion, never mind that he’s never getting confirmed.
He clerked for the Court for chrissakes. And it would get him out of the Senate permanently.
