Rubio is now hedging his bets on winning support from Floridians who have already awarded his competitor a 60% approval rating, and from national GOPers disillusioned with Crist’s RINO politics. There is talk of the conservative Club for Growth bankrolling his campaign, and of Rubio at least using the campaign as a starting point for his entrance on to the national political scene.
At the very least, Rubio has managed to move the ball a little farther over to the right in a race that would’ve been solidly middle-of-the road without him. But the Speaker is adamant about his political career consisting of ideas instead of politics.
“For folks that express concern… about how this race is maybe not the best race for me, or that there may some other place for me to climb the political ladder; I explain to them that there are more important things in the world than Marco Rubio’s political ambitions,” he said, harking back to a common criticism of his competitor. “My political career is not as important as the fact that my kids are going to inherit a country worse than the one I was left with, and that that’s why I am motivated to run for the United States Senate.”