Robo Rubio is running for Senate again

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lopri

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WaPo said:
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) officially reversed course Wednesday, announcing that he will run for reelection to the Senate after months of insisting that speculation to that effect was groundless and flat wrong.

"Control of the Senate may very well come down to the race in Florida," Rubio said in a statement Wednesday morning. "That means the future of the Supreme Court will be determined by the Florida Senate seat. It means the future of the disastrous Iran nuclear deal will be determined by the Florida Senate seat. It means the direction of our country’s fiscal and economic policies will be determined by this Senate seat. The stakes for our nation could not be higher."
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-top-table-main_rubio-950a-top:homepage/story

Could Floridans be that stupid? Robo Rubio is probably the most spineless politician we have seen in these presidential primaries. He appears, from what information I have learned, quite corrupt or corruptible as well. And now he is spinning this latest flip-flop as if it is his "sacrifice" for the country. (He was, eh, supposed to be a private citizen lobbyist after the election)

Is there a Florida Republican here who can share the thoughts? I want to check my sanity.
 
Sheik Yerbouti

Sheik Yerbouti

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stay thirsty my friend
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master_shake_

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i think that if you run for the highest office in the land and get beat you should have to quit politics.
 
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cliftonite said:
He will win the seat, don't see how he can lose (barring a scandal).
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Rubio is weaker after his underwhelming presidential debate performance. His likely opponent, Murphy, is quite popular & will be well financed, bet on that.

Rubio is vulnerable & can def lose.

Conservatives tend to under estimate the degree to which America is fed up with Repub bullshit. The fact that they're likely running Trump underscores that in no small way.

What do they offer that they didn't offer in the past? Nothing. It's the same free market trickle down bullshit that created the housing bubble, enormous inequality, & the same militarism that put us in Iraq. Their shit is old & busted, proven not to work for the middle class.
 
hal2kilo

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Jhhnn said:
Rubio is weaker after his underwhelming presidential debate performance. His likely opponent, Murphy, is quite popular & will be well financed, bet on that.

Rubio is vulnerable & can def lose.

Conservatives tend to under estimate the degree to which America is fed up with Repub bullshit. The fact that they're likely running Trump underscores that in no small way.

What do they offer that they didn't offer in the past? Nothing. It's the same free market trickle down bullshit that created the housing bubble, enormous inequality, & the same militarism that put us in Iraq. Their shit is old & busted, proven not to work for the middle class.
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Apparently, he got his marching orders from the RNC and Sen McChinless. The other guy I guess hasn't polled too well against Murphy.
 
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MongGrel

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I wouldn't be surprised if Rubio was re-elected, but a lot of people in FL didn't like him to begin with.

I never did, I hate Rick Scott. He's pretty much the Donald Trump of health care in FL with any questionable things in his business dealing in the past that is Gov.

I'd even seen things in the past that Trump might have vetted Scott for VP, that would be a real train wreck.

Scott has made money in shady dealing his whole life the way Trump has off defaulting on real estate deals/running casinos.
 
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hal2kilo

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MongGrel said:
I wouldn't be surprised if he was re-elected, but a lot of people in FL didn't like him to begin with.

I never did, I hate Rick Scott.
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I lived in Florida a few years back in the early to mid 70's. The politics there weren't so bad then, although there's a strange mix of a state with an agricultural backbone that was somewhat softened by the usurpers (snowbirds, transplants) that made the state more liberal. Now, I'm so glad I have nothing do to with that train wreck.
 
MongGrel

MongGrel

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Walkin' Lawton and a few were really good guys in the past, they actually cared.

Even some recent ones were good, Alex Sink I liked a lot, she cared it appeared and almost made it to office. Rick barely beat her.

I didn't even know Rick Scott was a co-owner with Dubya of the Texas Rangers till I looked around a bit.
 
Fanatical Meat

Fanatical Meat

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hal2kilo said:
Yea, like looking at his record for doing what? Need to show up sometime to get things accomplished.
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I'm not a FL voter but with his known record how could anyone support him. He is paid to be there, that should be his #1 priority its not like the Senate is in session that long.
While I think its a negative view, I can understand why some like Government not doing anything but at bare minimum they should show up.
 
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kage69

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It's Florida.

They probably can't wait to re-elect another mindless automaton who would rather continually self-promote instead of showing up to do his damn job. Kochs probably want to try a different type of programming on the lil guy.
 
Sonikku

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Rubio lost his own state's primary against Trump. If you can't carry your own state it's probably time to get out of politics.
 
MongGrel

MongGrel

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The Florida bashing gets old, but that is another topic really.

A large majority of the stupid things in the news come from transients coming down to hang out, though there are the share of other people like in any other state.

That, and it is pretty diverse from area to area.
 
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