GOP: If Trump wins FL primary.."curled up in a ball sucking my thumb after I dunked it in whiskey"

[seafan]

Adam Smith at the Tampa Bay Times has this delicious little tidbit this morning:

Back in late 2014, GOP leaders in Florida were pretty certain of a couple things: Marco Rubio would never run for president if his mentor, Jeb Bush, did; And if either of them ran, he would be a lock to win Florida’s Republican presidential primary.

That’s why, after Bush signaled he was likely to run, Republican legislative leaders set the 2016 Florida primary for March 15 - and made the primary winner-take-all, rather than a primary in which several candidates could divide the state’s 100 or so delegates proportionally. It was a gift to Bush, to ensure he could count on winning a big pile of delegates in case he did not dominate earlier contests in places like Iowa and New Hampshire.

“Can we get that gift back?” Republican political consultant Ana Navarro, a zealous Jeb Bush advocate and ubiquitous TV pundit quipped Thursday night while speaking at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg.

Contrary to the old conventional wisdom, Rubio did get into the race and another giant force emerged to threaten everybody’s best laid plans. His name is Donald Trump, and Navarro acknowledged her fear that Trump could win Florida’s primary.

Rubio and Bush may well cannibalize one another’s votes, she said, leaving Trump to scoop up a winning plurality of anti-establishment votes.

“Nobody that’s voting for Trump is voting for Jeb or voting for Marco. I don’t think they eat from each other’s votes,” Navarro said. “I do think Jeb and Marco eat from each other’s votes.”

Navarro, who appears regularly on CNN, ABC News and, as of today, The View, weighed in a host of topics:

Is she ready to accept that Trump might be the Republican nominee? “No. If I was, I would be curled up in a ball sucking my thumb after I dunked it in whisky.”

Look for Rubio to bow out of the race.

After a while, though, the rest of these guys are going to despise having to short-circuit their own ambitions in order to prop up Humpty Dumpty.

[PatrickforO]

1. Well after the fall of Humpty Senior due to his utter ineptitude with domestic policies,

and the fall of 'W' Humpty after unilaterally starting a forever war, implementing unsustainable tax cuts and creating a huge domestic spying organ,

what the HELL do we want with !Humpty! the third???