Now is now the time to be moderate in the GOP they will still nominate a extremist in the 2016 cycle because dang it they lost not due to their views but that the message didn't get out and they nominated a weirdo. After they lose in 2016 you may seem them shifting back to the center right as a party.

Also GOP savior implies they can win back the WH and the reasons they gave are good in explaining why Rubio can't.

Wasn't Rubio the party savior before the election only to be shuffled to the back of the bus to make way for Mr. P90X? This smacks of the brief moment when Jindal was the new face of the GOP right after Obama was elected because hey, he brown, has a funny name too, and is also known for being smart! Plus, I was under the impression Rubio was only slightly more popular than Rick Scott in FL.

HE SCARES ME

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/…

Who needs saving? We've got Gingrich!

Rubio looks 12 now. By 2016 maybe he'll look 15.

Hey, someone else do research for me! Has this whole 'response to the SotU' thing been a long-standing tradition? Because it seems really partisan and petty and I'm pretty embarassed that our country has made it a thing.

Jonathan Bernstein has an interesting piece about why Rubio is making a mistake giving the response to the SOTU. Basically, there's no upside for Rubio. His speech will either be forgotten or remembered because it was bad. The only ones who seem to benefit are Members of the House who don't have a national profile.

http://plainblogaboutpolitics.blogspot.c…

Rubio just voted against bringing the Violence against Women act to the floor for debate. He is a horrible human being.

@ 4,

Thanks for posting that link--I was just thinking of that article.

If you're worried about Rubio, forget him. He's in an all-out war with the Spanish-language media, and the hatred is mutual.

Plus, the tongue-talking, Koch-kissing, neofascist, snake-handling, hate-KKKrayzed, far-white base of the RepubliKKKan party will never vote for him in a zillion years.

@7. I appreciate both your laziness AND honesty. Wikipedia says it started in 1966 but doesn't say who gave it.

What's hilarious is the GOP thinks because Rubio is a Latino, then of course all Latinos will just magically start supporting the republicans. Glad to disappoint them--there are lots and lots of Mexican Americans who loathe Cuban Americans, and vice versa. The world is such an interesting and wondrous place.

@ 12 - It's similar to how they thought that putting Sarah Palin on the ticket would magically get them all of the Democratic female vote. These people are morons.

@10 has it right: The R's are caught on the horns of a dilemma. One the one hand, their white and racist base turns off minorities by pushing racist policies (amid racist verbiage), and on the other, the marketing solution - putting forward a minority candidate - won't work, because duh, the base is racist, and won't vote for him, even if this managed to bring in some minority votes (it won't). They're fucked, but I'm equally certain the hand-wringing nice-guy D's will join them in fuckedness.