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Marco Rubio: “Donald Trump Is A Con Artist”

I personally agree with Sen. Marco Rubio.

But, given how these things play out, how does Rubio u-turn and support Trump in a general election after this? Because that is what will be expected of him.

Share your thoughts in the comments. I’m curious what folks think…

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Marco Rubio Goes Full-On Against Donald Trump On Campaign Trail

In the aftermath of last night’s Republican debate where Sen. Marco Rubio attacked front-runner Donald Trump over and over again, Rubio continued the assault on the campaign trail touching on every possible insult he could find from the Donald touching up his makeup at the debate to several misspelled tweets today.

“He had this little makeup thing applying, like makeup around his mustache, because he had one of those sweat mustaches. He wanted a full-length mirror. Maybe to make sure his pants weren’t wet. I don’t know.”

“‘Wow every poll said I won the debate last night.’ Now this is him about himself, okay — ‘Great honer.’ I think he meant to say honor. I don’t know how he got that wrong because the e and the o are nowhere near each other on the keyboard.”

“How does this guy in not one tweet but three tweets misspell words so badly? I only reach two conclusions. Number one, that’s how they spell those words at the Wharton School of Business where he went. Or number two, just like Trump Tower, he must have hired a foreign worker to do his own tweets.”

“You all have friends thinking about voting for Donald Trump. Friends do not let friends vote for con artists.”

It was practically a Don Rickles routine.

Clearly the GOP establishment leaned on Rubio to do SOMETHING to slow Trump’s assent to nominee. But is it too late?

Watch Rubio campaigning today below. It’s practically a stand-up comedy act.

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New Poll: Marco Rubio Trails Donald Trump By Double-Digits In His Homestate Of Florida

In the first new poll since former Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump has a big lead over Sen. Marco Rubio in the state of Florida.

It goes without saying that Rubio represents Florida in the U.S. Senate.

This is very bad news for Rubio.

The survey, by Quinnipiac University, shows Trump leading Rubio 44-28 percent less than three weeks before Florida’s March 15 primary. And voters — tens of thousands of them — are already casting ballots by mail, which leaves Rubio very little time to make up the deficit against the Republican front-runner.

“If Sen. Rubio can’t win in his own home state, it is difficult to see how he can win elsewhere,” said a statement from Peter A. Brown, the poll’s assistant director.

It’s worth noting that the Florida Republican primary is “winner take all.” So Rubio’s current trend of coming in second will do him no good in this scenario.

Contrast this news with the RealClearPolitics Texas GOP poll averages showing Sen. Ted Cruz leading in HIS home state of Texas over Donald Trump and Rubio by about 7%.

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley To Endore Marco Rubio

I wonder if this will be enough for Rubio to inch past Ted Cruz into the number two spot in South Carolina?

Donald Trump supporter and all-around nutcase Ann Coulter was not happy.

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Marco Rubio: Obama Shouldn’t Appoint New SCOTUS Justice With Just “A Few Months” Left In His Presidency

Sen. Marco Rubio took to just about every Sunday morning show he could find to say President Obama should not appoint a replacement for the late Antonin Scalia because Obama has only a “few months” left in his presidency.

From Raw Story:

On Meet the Press, Rubio again insisted that there should be no nominations from a “president nearing the last few months of his administration.”

“Do presidential terms end after three years?” NBC host Chuck Todd shot back at the candidate.

“There comes a point in the last year of the president, especially in their second term, where you stop nominating,” Rubio said. “You basically say, at this point, with a few months left in your term, no accountability from the ballot box on the appointment you’re going to make — on a lifetime appointment.”

“Eleven months!” Todd interrupted.

Republicans keep saying there’s an 80 year precedent of not confirming justices in a president’s last year, which is false. Justice Anthony Kennedy was confirmed in February of President Reagan’s final year in office.

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Marco Rubio Blames The Media For His Fifth Place Showing In New Hampshire Primary

After finishing a disappointing fifth place in the New Hampshire Republican primary last night, Sen. Marco Rubio blamed the media for his crushing loss.

Appearing on Fox News today, Rubio said that because the media did it’s job and reported on, among other things, his “crash and burn” performance at the GOP debate Saturday night, folks didn’t want to vote for him.

Via Politico:

“What happened is obviously Saturday night the debate went the way it went, and then just the media coverage over the last 72 hours was very negative about it and so forth,” Rubio said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.” “So the last thing voters heard going into the booth yesterday was, you know, something bad happened Saturday night. And so it made it very difficult for us to get any other message across.”

Rubio was excoriated following Saturday’s debate after Chris Christie called the Florida senator out for his “memorized 25-second speech” — a line Rubio used several times in the debate about how President Barack Obama “knows exactly what he’s doing” and vowed to keep using on the trail despite the harsh criticism.

Many have predicted that last night may be the beginning of the end of Rubio’s career in elective politics. He has stated he does not plan on running for reelection for the U.S. Senate this fall.

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Marco Rubio T2000 Short Circuits Again – Repeats Same Campaign Line

The Marco Rubio T2000’s robot programming hit another glitch last night as he repeated the same line about “ramming down our throats” twice.

You can see he pauses at the:26 mark, not sure if he’s said the line already or not.

“We are taking our message to families that are struggling to raise their children in the 21st century because, as you saw, Jeanette and I are raising our four children in the 21st century, and we know how hard it’s become to instill our values in our kids instead of the values they try to ram down our throats.”

“In the 21st century, it’s become harder than ever to instill in your children the values they teach in our homes and in our church instead of the values that they try to ram down our throats in movies, in music, in popular culture.”

The Rubio T2000 has come under fire since the last GOP debate this past Saturday when he kept repeating the same memorized talking point “President Obama knows exactly what he’s doing…” over and over to much ridicule.

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New Hampshire Voter Asks Rubio: “Why Do You Want To Put Me Back In The Closet?”

During a New Hampshire campaign stop at the Puritan Backroom Diner last night, Senator Marco Rubio didn’t get the reception he was hoping for when a middle-aged gay man asked, “Why do you want to put me back in the closet?”

Rubio’s answer was not convincing: “I don’t, you can live any way you want.”

From the New York Times:

The voter, who identified himself as Timothy Kierstead, was seated at a table with his mother and his husband when Mr. Rubio walked up behind him, according to pool reports of the encounter. During a brief conversation, Mr. Kierstead, 50, told Mr. Rubio that he was married but complained that the senator’s position amounted to him declaring that “we don’t matter.”

Mr. Rubio, who was standing with his youngest son, Dominick, 8, by his side, gently disagreed. “No, I just believe marriage is between one man and one woman.”

“Well,” replied Mr. Kierstead, “that’s your belief.”

Mr. Rubio continued: “I think that’s what the law should be. And if you don’t agree you should have the law changed by a legislature.”

Mr. Kierstead said the law had already been changed, referring either to a Supreme Court ruling that has legalized same-sex marriage across the country or to state legislation in New Hampshire that did the same.

Mr. Rubio decided to conclude their conversation. “I respect your view,” he said, patting Mr. Kierstead on the shoulder and starting to walk away.

Mr. Kierstead was unsatisfied. “Typical politician,” he said loudly. “Walk away.”

New Hampshire was actually the first state to freely legislate marriage equality.