Marco Rubio is now running for president of the United States.
The freshman Republican U.S. senator from Florida has joined the swelling chorus of GOP voices seeking to take the White House back from those mean ol’ Democrats.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/marco-rubio-2016-presidential-bid-116914.html?hp=t1_r
What the Rubio candidacy is beginning to illustrate in even more stark terms is thatĀ Republicans are going to face the donnybrook while Democrats appear headed for a coronation of sorts when the parties convene their nominating conventions in the summer of ’16.
Those of us who’ve been around long enough remember when the reverse was true. Democrats carved each other up while Republicans rallied behind the suitable heir apparent.
Not this time.
Rubio joins a GOP primary campaign that already includes fellow Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Ted Cruz of Texas. Others — many others, in fact — are waiting in the wings. I keep hearing different numbers, but the roll call of Republican presidential candidates varies between 12 and 25. Hey, the more the merrier.
The Democrats? They’ve got their prohibitive frontrunner, Hillary Rodham Clinton. She has the deep pockets, the organization, the party machinery and some quite favorable poll numbers backing her up.
The Democratic Party is likely to anoint Clinton as its nominee.
The Republican Party is going toĀ engage inĀ a knock-down, drag-out brawl through the winter, into the spring and possibly right up until the GOP convention.
Some of us remember another time, era and set of circumstances that reversed the roles.
This campaign, from my perspective, is going to be much more fun to watch.