George Allen was one of the first casualties of  information politics. Pols for aeons have been used to white-lying it through untold podunk towns with no underlying data network to connect it all together for folks.  One word — Macacaca — did him in.  It was the early days of something “going viral.”

It also unseated the Clintons, who took it like champions.  It allowed the ‘net in general to vet Sarah Palin because lord knows no one else had.

Information politics are not done unseating politicians.  Once the effort grows more sophisticated, it will a valuable tool in fighting corruption that requires zero dollars expended for regulation.

Sorry, but according to Ace of Spades she bought a quart of  milk from a state owned dairy or something, so she’s tainted too.

I’ll just jump in here late with a half-a$$ed, “I told you so” -ish comment.

I’ve pointed out here and several other places that Rubio has been someone who always seems to be a little aloof when it comes to the Tea Party.  Yes, he spoke at a rally or two.  Yes, he made some great-sounding speeches in the last few years–speeches that always seemed to stop well short of enunciating actual Conservative platform ideas.

As I’ve said, he seems to be working hard to become a lifetime Senator, and not an idea-framing, philosophically-based champion of restoring our Constitution.

He’s like Reagan without ANY of the “A Time To Chose” specifics.  Hollowing out Reagan that way (no, it’s different from how Obama flat-out abuses all forms of analogy when referring to Reagan) makes me feel queasy about the man.

I want to like the guy.  His success story is one all immigrants should look to for motivation.  But he seems like a man working to his own agenda of power politics, and not like a Rand Paul sort of guy who lays it on the line, politics be damned (no, I am not a fan of the senior Paul).

Cain has a little of that going for him, as well. Where Palin, Santorum, and Bachmann (and Newt, too) point to specific principles of Conservative thinking, Cain prefers to skirt the issue by claiming we need a “problem solver.”

I like Cain more than Romney or Perry, but we don’t just need a good steward, we need a captain who knows where the hell we should be going.  We had a good, possibly great, steward in George “W” Bush.  Look where we ended up.

True dat!

I’m not a Republican, and I never call anyone a RINO.  Sometimes I’ll use the acronym in a joke.  But I don’t give a damn about RINO-ism.  I only caucus with Conservatives to push back against the left.  As far as I’m concerned, “Republican” types are the problem, so the RINO label has no meaning.

When a fish lands in your lap, it takes the right kind of guy to realize that it might look a lot better with breadcrumbs and butter. 

The rest all just go, “ewwww, a fish!”

Why?
One mans pessimism is another’s stranglehold on reality, we don’t call em infernal optimists for nothing.

You are right on.    Rubio is way to close to the Bush wing of the party.    

Rubio never really endorsed the Tea party. He just used them by using language that covered tea party and evangelicals.   All to his advatnage.

The media not only decides who we should vote for, they also tell the grassroots which candidate is a tea party candidate.  Rubio cannot be picked as a VP nor as a Presidential candidate until he proves that at the time of his birth, his parents were citizens.  Even though the constitution does not define ‘natural born’ there is still evidence of what the founders meant by ‘natural born’ and Rubio doesn’t fit the bill.   However it appears that both party’s are helping to shred the constitution blatantly and without any remorse.  I’d rather not vote at all than vote for a Romney/Rubio ticket.   Additionally, considering the disgusting way that the media is  treating Ron Paul, I would vote for anyone other than the candidates that the Pravda US media endorses or supports.   The media, including FOX news, the GOP, and the elitists are picking the winners because they think that the voters are just too stupid to realize that we do not really have any choice in the matter.  Both the Democrats and the Washington Republicans share multiple agendas, like globalization.  People need to look into Cain’s associations.  Cain has links  to the Bilderbergs from serving on boards such as Whirlpool. If any of these candidates are elected, for the exception of Ron Paul, we will have open borders with Canada and Mexico.  That is just the beginning.

You shoulda seen him before his knuckles went . . .

That’s going to seriously reduce the pool of candidates if we start excluding the dumb ones.

You thought the dumb guys mucked it all up?  Get a load of the “smart” guys in the Obama Regime.

I think we should separate the fact of WHAT someone may have done – push for the Florida primary to move up (exactly as was done in 2008, ‘member?) – and the speculation of WHY they may have done it.  Because without a LOT more info, we have no real idea of the guy’s motives beyond what Stacy’s anonymous source suggested.

But, heck, this is Today’s Conservative Movement (Motto:  “We Eat Our Own and Like It!”) so hanging Rubio on the basis of speculation of the motives of a staffer by an unnamed source is Frontier Justice, Baby!

It’s a darned miracle we ever win an election.

Eh tu, Marco?

I’ll take, “Because he’s a statist, flip-flopper” for $100, Alex.

You could take advantage of a nice feature of this blog, where handy links appear at the end of articles helping you avoid embarrassing assumptions.

Part of this move was started, I suspect, back when the Romney people suspected that Palin was going to run. Moving Florida forward was a very effective way of forcing Palin to stay out of the race.

I was always an advocate of Palin getting in the race earlier than she wanted to, and now you know why. She was outmaneuvered by a far more experienced campaign over at Team Romney. 

She’ll learn from this. But it just goes to show you that in this business, you can trust no one. Oh, and hesitation kills.

I’m actually quite surprised that Marco would want on the Romney train, since Mittens could quite easily lose to Obama, thus leaving Marco as damaged goods.

BTW, nice reporting job, Stacy. Earned your pay today.

It would be the start of his 2016 campaign.

It doesn’t matter whether his parents were citizens or not, so long as Rubio himself was born on American soil, he’s automatically considered an American citizen.

If I ever find out for a fact he did that, I’ll not only not vote for the bastard, I’ll vote, and campaign for, Obama.

It’s bad enough he sends me e-mails containing naked pictures of himself with the subject line:* OT, But…*