re: #84 Dark_Falcon

What Rand Paul doesn’t say and what Marco Rubio will find it hard to say is Rubio and Chuck Schumer blocked Paul’s amendment because a vote on it would have been a large game of “Gotcha!” and if the amendment had been part the final bill then it would have been filibustered.

But what makes this a problem for Rubio is that if he counters with the truth he will remind primary voters that he wanted to pass a comprehensive immigration bill. Even though he’s changed his mind on the matter some voters will still hold it against him.

So Rand Paul has given Marco Rubio a Kobiyashi Maru scenario. We’ll have to see if Rubio has some Capt. Kirk in him.

Paul might actually be dangerous in the primaries if he had stuck to any coherent set of beliefs. But he found himself stuck between two chairs (his dad’s white separatist libertarianism and Republican orthodoxy). Now he’s pulling Rubio into that same position; Rubio is trying to force Cruz into that same position by noting the latter’s support for massively increasing H-1B visas, among other measures.

Meanwhile, Trump and Carson float miles above the rest.