Florida: It's not as promised...

TOM: Like a bad flashback: Florida Democrats trying to steal another election...

I am glad Marco Rubio is fighting back, where's the rest of the GOP?

If it is close, Democrats will lie and cheat to steal an election.  

Don Surber: Don't Freak over Florida

AoSHQ: Scenes from a Coup

Latest ballots dumped by #Broward &/or #PalmBeach flipped Ag Comm race to Dem & shaved another 4k+ from Scott’s lead in Senate race

Since 3am Wed slow drip from these 2 Dem controlled counties cut Scott lead from 54 to 17K. And they refuse to disclose # of ballots they have left pic.twitter.com/2K8hR4D2P2

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 8, 2018

Instapundit: Fired for reporting fraud, Rick Scott files bombshell lawsuit and An election being stolen in Florida?

Legal Insurrection: Rubio takes Broward County to task over shenanigans 

AoSHQ: Democrats stealing AZ and FL and Morning Report 11.09.18

Shark Tank: DeSantis announces new transition team

Hot Air: Gillum un-concedes?

Critical #StopTheSteal Update: sources give me update on Miami-Dade County & estimate on Broward County https://t.co/A5fX4zxFG6

— Ali Alexander 🇺🇸 (@ali) November 9, 2018

The hell they aren’t! #STOPTHESTEAL https://t.co/RoHUCvgC4Y

— Ali Alexander 🇺🇸 (@ali) November 9, 2018

Instapundit: Fraud and Coverup Go Together

Rule 5 & FMJRA

357 Magnum: 11/3

Hogewash: Vegans

Woodsterman: Rule 5

Goodstuff: 277th Edition

Mark Steyn: Free Sea Speech

The Right Way: Link-O-Rama

Proof Positive: Best Of The Web

90 Miles from Tyranny: Rule 5 links

Animal Magnetism: Gingermageddon

Camp of the Saints: The Left in America

Feral Irishman: Don't Forget Your Clocks

Pirate's Cove: Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Gun Free Zone: Lambs cheering for the predators

Political Clown Parade: Flowing Curves Of Beauty

A View From The Beach : Saturday Night Whoa Nelly!

Diogenes Middle Finger News : A Good Monday Morning

EBL: Stacy Abrams's Sexy Muse, Democrat Gillum Intern Arrested, Self Defense is Smart and Sexy

TOM: More Florida News: Democrats Send in Soros-Connected Lawyer Marc Elias, Democrat Election Theft Update, In The Mailbox: 11.09.18, Harvard Hates Heterosexuals (Because the Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved), Google SJWs Can’t Be Appeased, Late Night With In The Mailbox: 11.08.18, Like a Bad Flashback: Florida Democrats Are Trying to Steal Another Election, Borderline Massacre Gunman Identified as Marine Veteran David Ian Long, 28, ‘No Borders! No Wall! No USA at All!’ #Antifa Mob Targets Tucker Carlson, #Borderline Massacre: 12 Killed, Gunman Dead at Country Music Bar in California, Obscure Cable-TV Personality Becomes Disorderly at White House Briefing, No ‘Wave’ for Democrats; GOP Gains in Senate; Some Races Still ‘Too Close to Call’, Who Democrats Really Are, Another ‘Incel’ Weirdo: Tallahassee Shooter Was Public School Teacher, Don't mess with Feng Zhu Chen, Black Gay Democrat Intern Committed Anti-Semitic Hate Crime in Brooklyn, ActBlue is killing us, Friday Fiction: Smitty/Darleen, Road Trip, and Wombat

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Daily Gator
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Political Clown Parade
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GOODSTUFF'S CYBER WORLD (RIP)

Separated At Birth: Trey Gowdy and...?

Trey Gowdy and Anderson Cooper!

Given the way they act, you'd think the media might have compromising photos of Trey Gowdy and Marco Rubio!  

AoSHQ/J.J. Sefton: Très Gaudy

Legal Insurrection: Gowdy opines without seeing documents

Powerline: Not Giddy Over Gowdy and Gowdy defends the FBI

Andrew McCarthy: Calls Trey "FBI Fanboi" Gowdy and Little Marco Out

AoSHQ: Molly Hemmingway and Andrew McCarthy Pummel Trey Gowdy Over His Ignorance

Instapundit: A worthy pardon for Dinesh D'Souza, When is the C-Bomb ok, and Sammantha Bee admits she crossed a line

Beware The Ides Of March

AoSHQ: While we had a snow day...

CNBC: Markets brace for March rate hike

Steyn On Line: The Superbowl of Superholes

Rush Limbaugh: Are Republicans Tricking Trump?

Powerline: Tom Cotton reject the parliamentarian dodge

The Federalist: Donald Trump should beware the Ides of March

Zero Hedge: Beware The Ides of March and the Fed has set the stage

EBL: Beware the Ides of March July and Are Democrats Abandoning Hillary?

The Soros Seven: With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?

Breitbart: Guess Who Soros Funded?

Update: Don Surber: Jebbio K. McRynerham

Are we really surprised by this? Actually it is more than the seven above. John McCain has a bit of history with Soros. Don't underestimate the mendacity of George Soros and his influence not only on the left but the supposed opposition right.  

AoSHQ: Soros Hedge Fund Firm Donated to Jeb, Dondi, Ryno, McStains and the Hermaphrodite

Lem's Place: Surprise, Surprise, Surprise

Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it...

Wombat: The Geller Report: Soros Tied To A Dozen Lawsuits Against Donald Trump and Louder With Crowder: OUTRAGE? Japan Refuses Refugees, Will “Prioritize Our Citizens First”

Update: You can't trust these dwarfs: Heat Street: Judy Garland was groped by Munchkins on the Wizard of Oz set 

Marco Rubio makes the right decision on Rex Tillerson...

Powerline: McCain and Graham Supporting Tillerson

I did not see any upside for Marco Rubio to vote no, and apparently neither did Marco Rubio.  I doubt even Mitt Romney was lobbying against Rex Tillerson.  

Smart move by Rubio. What does this possible protest vote do, endear Rubio to the all so powerful McMuffin-McPuffin wing of the GOP?  I am sure Schumer would be happy to use Little Marco again like he did during the Gang of Eight fiasco. That did not exactly work out well for Marco then. What makes him think that is a good idea now?

If Marco voted no on this, he might find himself abandoned as a GOP castaway on an island, without even his 'luxury' speedboat to escape on. No Senator wants to be an island.  

 I can understand Rex Tillerson not being Marco Rubio's first choice for Secretary of State, but President Trump gets to make this pick. To his credit, Rex Tillerson did display a certain degree of moxy I sort of liked.  Smart decision by Rubio to back off this ledge.

Instapundit: Not really a surprise,  Roger Simon: Rex Tillerson very impressive during hearings

Babalú Blog: Tillerson says Obama's Cuba policies will be reversed

Hot Air: Surprise: Marco Rubio votes yes on Tillerson

NRO: Tillerson is in like Flynn

EBL: Two Senators and a cup

Heat Street: Little Marco mocked for voting for Rex Tillerson after tough talk at hearing.  This was an unforced error on Rubio's part. What is the upside of doing this in the first place? Still, he did not double down on stupid by voting no after being abandoned by McCain and Graham.  So he has that going for him.

Stay Chubby: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand votes no on James Mattis for Secretary of Defense...

Chubby Kirsten was the only "no" vote, so Mattis is getting confirmed anyway...

Really? A bit of posturing there for the Democrat base?  Mattis got the waiver for not being out of the military for seven years, so why not just vote yes? Almost everyone agrees Mattis is an inspired Defense Secretary pick. 

Of course, talking about posturing, the GOP has Marco Rubio still threatening to vote no on Rex Tillerson. Why? The President Elect should get to pick his cabinet and Rex Tillerson is qualified for the job. Little Marco, don' t get in the cup with McCain and Graham!  

Just a reminder: Hillary Clinton will never be President of the United States

The late Democrat Senator Daniel Inouye told Kirsten to "stay chubby" he liked his women like that. 

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Powerline: How Rex Tillerson got even with Venezuela Socialists

Memories of how Senator Kirstin Gillibrand seemed fine with fellow Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer calling a flight attendant a bitch:

Democrats, Spare Us Your Smug Hypocrisy!

TOM: The 'Male Feminist' who understands neither himself or feminism

WARNING: You can never unsee this...

I doubt even that cup is big enough for the amount of crap out of these two...

Senator Rubio, remember how that Gang of Eight press conference turned out for you.  Don't make the same mistake again. Do you really want to join forces against Donald Trump with the media and the 'deep state'? Because Trump is winning that war. You do not have to throw in completely with Trump, but killing Rex Tillerson's chances in committee is not a hill to die on. 

We all get Putin is bad. Guess what, so are some of China, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Cuba and Venezuela's leaders (and the list goes on).  

If you have legitimate concerns about Rex Tillerson, why not quietly and directly present them to President Elect Trump?  After all, what you are engaged in is Advise and Consent.  I would try the advise part first (and sometimes a public hearing is not the best time to do that). 

Tillerson was not my first choice, but then again, I am not President Elect. What I have heard so far in the hearings does not even remotely go to disqualification status for Tillerson. I would think you might even agree with this. While the Senate has the right to consent, there is something to be said about letting the President pick who he wants. And be careful the crowd you hang out with. 

You should pick and choose your battles more carefully.  

Hot Air: Classic Rubio (what's the point)

EBL: Did the Russians really compromise Trump? No.

Instapundit Comment

TOM: Three Quick Thoughts

Gay Patriot: Brief comment on hearings

Rush Limbaugh: Citizen McCain and Ted 

AmPowBlog: Scorcher and Butt Hurt Acosta

Regular Right Guy: GOP players smearing Trump

Regular Right Guy: Disgusting: McCain caught up in it

Powerline: Trump and the Liberal World and Trump Presser

AoSHQ: Buzzfeed's Ben Smith shown to be a complete jack ass

NY Post: John McCain gave the black mail dossier on Trump to FBI

Legal Insurrection: Ted Cruz shines, Little Marco petulant and Fake News

TOM: Jessica Valenti is too busy railing about Trump's presser to note this crime

Hot Air/Allahpundit: Tillerson in Trouble? Rubio says he is prepared to "do what's right." 

Instapundit: Buzzfeed undermines all journalists with Trump 'dossier,' This Is News: Tillerson on South China Sea, Scott Adams on Trump's response to Fake News, Flashback Obama on Fox News, Nice comeback from Senator Tim Scott, Why do Leftists hate immigrants and gays?

Marco Rubio is running for Senate again

If it saves a Senate seat from flipping Democrat...

AoSHQ is overwhelmed!

Instapundit: Marco takes one for the team

The Crubio Dream Lives On, But It Was Never Real

Spengler's Prediction Aside, 

How Does This Help Now? 
Jake Tapper presumably has a good source... 

Wallowing in what might have been does not help. I would have greatly preferred Cruz and Rubio as our presumptive nominees, but I doubt that unity ticket would have changed the primary outcome.

This was an unusual year and voters (on both sides) were looking for an outsider. The DNC was just more effective in blocking Crazy Socialist Sanders than the RNC was in blocking Trump. We are paying for past mistakes.

Ted Cruz unfortunately did not resinate with enough voters. While I still think Ted Cruz was the best candidate running (on policy) he is not a very good candidate on winning voters in a national race. Ted Cruz also burned way too many bridges on his path to the White House, which is why he is not the nominee. Ted lost allies he needed to block Trump's path.

The GOPe figured if we are likely to loose 2016, might as well lose with a one race shot like Trump than a conservative insurgent like Cruz. Of course, the establishment are divided.  Trump is not getting universal support from the GOP e either.

Cruz's attempt to appeal to the voters did not work. Not only did Ted Cruz fail to expand his base, he even managed to lose Evangelicals to Trump.

Of course, Marco Rubio severely damaged his brand prior to the race (ended up wasting resources battling with Jeb!) and was surprisingly glass jawed to a rough but predictable attack by Chris Christie.

Trump played on fear.  Okay, so do all candidates.  That is just one technique for winning.

Okay, this is a bit OTT (although it did make me laugh), but when you have to woo voters politics has always been about marketing and playing to your prospective audiences. Even when it was unseemly for candidates to run for office, they still ran for office through surrogates (think Ann Coulter and Hannity for Trump).

Joel Pollock actually makes a good point here. Cruz's New York Values comments hurt him badly in the New York primary.  That lack of momentum contributed to Cruz's crash going forward. With the momentum he had from Wisconsin, what could have been.

New York Values are what ultimately made the United States. Not the current New York political values (which are a mess and what Cruz was attacking Donald Trump for) but the free market entrepreneurial values of New Amsterdam which profoundly (and in a very good way) influenced the United States.

Instapundit: Why Trump Won, the slow blade penetrates the shield, they hate Trump but they fear Cruz, and where would Trump be if he ran as he actually is, the amnesty candidate? 

Rush Limbaugh: Vicente Fox blasts Trump's Taco Bowl (I have to admit, while definitely not thrilled by this election, I am going to enjoy siting on the side lines and seeing Trump and his critics take pot shots at each other).

GOP Convention: What's one of the possibilities we might see in Cleveland this summer?

Jazz Shaw has this disturbing post 

Which if attempted would be less Dr. Doolittle, more Dr. Moreau

Okay, where does the manure come out of that creature?  My guess, every orifice!

There is going to be lots of gamesmanship in Cleveland this summer.  With the unlikely prospect of Trump coming in with enough delegates to clinch on the first vote and Ted Cruz showing he is way more competent than Trump in lining up support with various state Republican delegates, Ted might very well prevail on the second or third ballot. Ted even managed to get Lindsay Graham to support him (sort of, although he thought a Kasich Rubio ticket was a good idea a few months ago).  

Is Ted Cruz capable of beating Hillary Clinton (barring her being indicted, it is probably going to be Hillary)? Ted is never going to team up with Trump (and it wouldn't work even if he was tempted to do so).  Cruz and Fiorina? Cruz and Kasich? 

Things are definitely complicated. But don't count out the GOP Establishment to do what the GOP Establishment is apt to do.  Make things worse!  

Ron Radosh at PJ Media and Myra Adams at NR are hot for a Kasich Rubio ticket.  I am just a wee bit skeptical it would work.  

Hot Air: Blue State Republican Delegates Might Control The Nomination?  and what are Kasich's True Intentions? 

Instapundit: Oh oh: Kasich and Rubio supporters prefer Trump as second choice? and Kasich's biggest problem (beyond being John Kasich)

Regular Right Guy: President Kasich!

Legal Insurrection: Count on Cruz

Jonah on Contested Convention

Marco Rubio: Beware the Ides of March Update: Marco Drops Out

AoSHQ: The Ides of Marco

EBL: Marco, Is it time to go?, Ohio, Florida and the Ides of March, the Ides of March came early this year for Senator Graham (but then again he thinks again about Ted Cruz), and the Mambo Twins

Newsmax: Marco Finished In Florida

Instapundit: He carries it well, Why Rubio is out, If he is such a good communicator, why is he doing so badly?

RedState: Marco says he won't drop out if he loses Florida?

Boom: Marco Rubio Drops Out

Rush Limbaugh: Obama is not serious about Garland, Schumer took out Rubio and Kasich: The GOPe's last best hope

Marco Rubio: Is It Time To Go?

DRUDGE REPORT: Get out before Florida
#MarcoMentum: It can sneak up on you!

So much hope in the early campaign...

I was not happy with the whole Gang of Eight debacle, I still like Marco Rubio. I think he is mostly a solid conservative. He was very wrong about immigration and especially trying to cut a deal with Schumer and McCain. That cost him. It has doomed him in this cycle as much as Jeb was doomed. It is just taking a little longer for that to register.  

You can survive this crash Marco...

I am sure Marco is not yet ready to concede it is time to go, but it may be time to go. Does he even want to wait for Michigan now, let alone Florida. I know Marco Rubio is hoping to best Trump in Florida, but if he doesn't what's the point of staying in? If Ted Cruz is the best shot at denying Donald Trump the nomination, shouldn't Marco help him do it?  

Rebuild the Mach 5!

This whole contested convention idea? It's a crap shoot at best and a poor bet. Either Ted stops Trump at this point or he doesn't. Even if he wins Florida, that and Minnesota and Puerto Rico is not much Marcomentum. Marco Rubio is not going to join forces with Donald Trump (he does not want to be Trump's VP), so he might as well at this point help Ted Cruz.  

This photo doomed him this year. Does it doom him forever? I don't think so.

RedState: Did Rubio protest too much over the CNN story he was dropping out? and yet Rubio must be hoping he can best Trump in Florida

AoSHQ: Did Marco Rubio eat this breakfast cereal as a kid?  I hope not.  

Legal Insurrection: Bloomberg will not run for President: Why run if you can't win.\

DaTechGuy: Don't Be A Jeb! and What is Trump really about? 

Instapundit: Marco on the brink, Punching back twice as hard, 99% of undecided broke for Cruz, Sympathy for the Donaldites (you brought this on yourself Marco)

Mickey Kaus: Lowering expectations?

Florida and Ohio Primaries and the Ides of March: Where The Delegates Are...

I am mixing a lot of metaphors here but what the heck...

Ides of March: Florida and Ohio are winner take all

Instapundit: Can Trump not win Florida? Springtime for Trump and Florida!

Ed Driscoll: Progressives Today: Warning this can't be unseen (this video is less cringe worthy than the one above)

Ides of March: Where Senator's Dreams Go To Die: Marco is finished if he doesn't get Florida

EBL: Trans-Kansas Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, Using Star Trek to understand the difference of Mitt Romney and Donald Trump, and how is it going getting those emails from Hillary Clinton?

RedState: Is Marco doing enough to win Florida?

TOM: And don't think popular culture does not matter (how do you think we got Trump)

Here's a scurrilous SNL clip that offers a preview of where the Democrats will take a Trump nomination => https://t.co/iOuxTLTrn9

— IGotOverMachoGrande (@smitty_one_each) March 6, 2016

Rule 5 and FMJRA

Hot Air: But if he doesn't win Florida, so what.  Plus Puerto Ricans can't vote in the general election. 

RedState's Leon Wolf says Marco sacrificed his campaign to save America

Newt says if Trump wins Ohio and Florida, it's over...

Instapundit: Marco wins PR

Pancakes for dinner? Why not?

Dan Lacey, Painter of Pancakes

Michelle Malkin: The RNC debates have been mostly one big FAIL

At least George is not doing GOP debates anymore

Instapundit: Bob Iger doubles down, A Trump Webb Ticket, The monster now has a name, Where is the tolerance, Why don't Cruz and Rubio connect with all, Cruz crushes the Debate

AoSHQ: Debate Scorecard! and Trump bails on CPAC

It might be time for the GOP Elites to take another look at Ted Cruz...

Hot Air: Denial, not just a river in Egypt 

or a frozen lake outside Minneapolis

AoSHQ: It might be time to support Cruz guys.  

Hey if Lindsay Graham can support Ted Cruz after what Lindsay said about Ted just last week...

Instapundit: Wooing Sanders supporters and black voters? Tipping Point, Does the GOP think Mitt will change minds? GOPe stages of grief, Cruzio, Carson out, Jonah on Trump, The screaming of the Christies, Closed and Open, Ted Cruz punches back twice as hard, Roger Simon: The #NeverTrump crowd should get a life, go on and bury it already

Wombat: DaTechGuy: Who's the con man?

AoSHQ: Debate Scorecard! and Trump bails on CPAC

#Marcomentum! We have a new Tim Pawlenty!

EBL: Super Duper Tuesday, Hugh Hewitt says Donald Trump preferable to Hillary Clinton, Is Kasich next to endorse Trump?

JPod: Crubio? Spengler

DaTechGuy: 2 Man Race

TOM: Those danged voters!

Lem's Levity: Kasich for Veep?

American Power Blog: Marco wins one

Mark Steyn: The Post Super Tuesday Arithmetic

Camp of the Saints: Super Duper Pooper Scooper

Protein Wisdom: Super Tuesday predictions & what the hell? 

RedState/streiff: Super Tuesday Polls and Results Post Mortem 

Rush Limbaugh: Everything you need to know on what happened on Super Tuesday, The GOPe won't figure out Trump until they get honest about what they have done, Trump is our best chance because he rules the media, and a Cruz supporter against Trump

March Madness: Super Tuesday is Here!

Smitty: It's Raining Knives

Super Duper!

EBL: The Road to Idiocracy, Ivanka Trump: One of the reasons Hugh Hewitt will still support Trump if he is the nominee in the general election, and the GOP's Kobayashi Maru Idiocracy: We're there

RedState/streiff: Things could be worse! Glenn Reynolds noted this phenomenon last week. If Trump is the Creature, the GOP Establishment is Dr. Frankenstein. And this particular article is only partially right and very much wrong on illegal immigration. Spare me the complete and utter bullshit that opposing illegal immigration or President Obama's disastrous policies is somehow racist. In fact, it is the GOP and Democrats' embrace of illegal immigration (and the GOP's partial failure in fully resisting Obama's policies) that has brought us where we are.  Is Trump at 49%? I guess we find out tomorrow. Somehow, I doubt a unity ticket, but I have been surprised before this election cycle.

And Legal Insurrection asks, does the New York Times have a recording of Donald Trump on illegal immigration (that might not match his current rhetoric)? Well then the joke is on Trump supporters, isn't it? The New York Times should be careful what is wishes for.

American Power Blog: Let the people choose and trust that decision (I know that is sort of crazy for the party elites to accept) and a Super Duper Trump Day looms

Regular Right Guy: Really, how soon we forget: The GOP Elite's Plan B

Lem's Levity: Choking the Chicken, Like a Doll's Eyes, Rubio Tuesday

Instapundit: The monster now has a name, Roger Simon: The #NeverTrump crowd should get a life, Super Tuesday, Live Blogging, Viacom's spokesman wants to smother Trump with Scalia's pillow, Count me out, Bury It, Latent Trump Voters, The Next Obama, Lileks, Everything you need to know about Super Tuesday, What exactly did Trump say to the NYT editorial board, Richard Fernandez: How nations collapse, Zero Hedge: Has everyone lost their freaking minds?

DaTechGuy: Why the party elites don't want Trump, Hey, let's disavow David Duke and Bill Ayers, Stop Trump Button

Protein Wisdom: Who not to vote for

JWF: To Trump Supporters

Powerline: I confess

Rush Limbaugh: Rush can't figure it out either, Ted Cruz's anti establishment bonafides, how Rubio screwed up

Michelle Malkin

AoSHQ: Only Ted Cruz can save us