# Marco Rubio presidential campaign discussion thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 14, 2015, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685 "2015-04-14T21:41:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/441 "2016-03-13T21:12:31Z")
In Michigan you could vote for “Uncommitted” in the Republican primary. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/442 "2016-03-13T22:46:57Z")
I’m a Dem who crossed over in the Michigan primary (Hillary and Bernie being equally palatable to me) and voted for Kasich. But my motivation was specifically anti-Trump. So saying there are _no_ non-Trump votes is not quite accurate. Given reports of how much people are crossing over there may be quite a lot of them. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/443 "2016-03-14T13:22:15Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > To build on this–Ryan was VP pick last time, so a case could be made that he’s the “heir in waiting” this cycle. Plus, he’s about the most conservative of the Establishment side, which means he would be broadly acceptable as a compromise candidate. > > It’s entirely possible that the hardest part of the whole exercise would lie in persuading him to accept the nomination. Yeah, I think if I were Ryan I’d stay out of it. Romney has much less to lose. Granted, I think Romney would lose the election, since I think any convention shenanigans would doom the party that cycle, but I don’t think Romney would destroy the party. I think handing the nomination to, say, Rubio might make it explode entirely. But, in all honesty, this election is showing me to be very very ignorant. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/444 "2016-03-14T14:38:40Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > I’m a Dem who crossed over in the Michigan primary (Hillary and Bernie being equally palatable to me) and voted for Kasich. But my motivation was specifically anti-Trump. So saying there are _no_ non-Trump votes is not quite accurate. > > Given reports of how much people are crossing over there may be quite a lot of them. FWIW, I did likewise: voting against Trump in the primary, while expecting to vote Dem in the general. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/445 "2016-03-14T14:44:10Z")
I don’t recall seeing a candidate with such a depressing air about him as Rubio these past few days. He looks like a guy strapped in the electric chair waiting for the current. Absolutely he knows that he’s going to get beaten badly in his own state and absolutely he knows he’ll be out very shortly. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/446 "2016-03-14T14:57:10Z")
The latest polls have him down to \*third \*in Florida. He’s never had as depressing an air about him as Jeb the Joyous Tortoise, though. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/447 "2016-03-14T15:02:47Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > I don’t recall seeing a candidate with such a depressing air about him as Rubio these past few days. Poor Jeb, it only took like two weeks to forget all about him. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/448 "2016-03-14T15:22:35Z")
Jeb who? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/449 "2016-03-14T15:25:24Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The latest polls have him down to \*third \*in Florida. > > He’s never had as depressing an air about him as Jeb the Joyous Tortoise, though. At least he never had to sadly ask his audience to clap after an applause line. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/450 "2016-03-14T15:29:07Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Jeb who? Jeb? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/451 "2016-03-14T15:32:40Z")
It isn’t just his campaign that’s ending tomorrow, it’s his political career. It looks like he won’t even be the top-scoring Cuban in his home state of Florida, behind a Canadian-Texan immigrant one. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/452 "2016-03-14T15:44:27Z")
Not these guys, surely? > **[J. E. B. Stuart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._E._B._Stuart)** > > James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart (February 6, 1833 – May 12, 1864) was a United States Army officer from Virginia who became a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was known to his friends as "Jeb,” from the initials of his given names. Stuart was a cavalry commander known for his mastery of reconnaissance and the use of cavalry in support of offensive operations. While he cultivated a cavalier image (red-lined gray cape, the yellow waist sash of a regular cavalry offic... > **[Jeb Stuart Magruder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Stuart_Magruder)** > > Jeb Stuart Magruder (November 5, 1934 – May 11, 2014) was an American businessman and high-level political operative in the Republican Party who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal. > He served President Richard Nixon in various capacities, including acting as deputy director of the president's 1972 re-election campaign, Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP). In August 1973, Magruder pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to wiretap, obstruct justice and ... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/453 "2016-03-14T15:46:35Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > Jeb? ¿Jeb? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/454 "2016-03-14T16:36:42Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not these guys, surely? > > [J. E. B. Stuart - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._E._B._Stuart) Let’s dispel with the fiction that we don’t know which Jeb is being discussed; we know exactly which Jeb is being discussed. > [@](#): > > [Jeb Stuart Magruder - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeb_Stuart_Magruder) Let’s dispel with the fiction that we don’t know which Jeb is being discussed; we know exactly which Jeb is being discussed. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/455 "2016-03-14T17:21:06Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Let’s dispel with the fiction that we don’t know which Jeb is being discussed; we know exactly which Jeb is being discussed. I thought it was [Zoidberg](http://imgur.com/0odz4fm)! 😉 Last chance I got to use my own photoshop work. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/456 "2016-03-14T22:01:34Z")
Was it ¡¿Marco?! who called Trump a pathological liar? If so, Kettle … Black: Rubio is blaming Obama and “the Left” for the violence at Trump rallies.(\*) Trump is accused of lying and having a filthy mouth. I think ¡¿Marco?! is also a liar with a filthy mouth. (\* - I see Ted Cruz made the same charge. What, did they both watch the same episode of Rush Limbaugh?) ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/457 "2016-03-14T22:04:40Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The latest polls have him down to \*third \*in Florida. > > He’s never had as depressing an air about him as Jeb the Joyous Tortoise, though. I thought Florida was his stome hate, and he was a savored fun. Perhaps he’s lucky ¡¿Jeb?! dropped out or he’d be _fourth_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/458 "2016-03-14T22:45:56Z")
Yes, Scott Pelley really did lead tonight’s CBS News with “Tomorrow could be ‘Goodbye, Rubio’ Tuesday”. Forgive him, Walter. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/459 "2016-03-16T00:21:06Z")
It’s over. He’s giving his final 2nd place victory speech and he’s talking about the campaign in the past tense. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685/460 "2016-03-16T00:22:02Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > It’s over. He’s giving his final 2nd place victory speech and he’s talking about the campaign in the past tense. Yep. This is a suspension speech. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marco-rubio-presidential-campaign-discussion-thread/717685.md?page=24)