Is Rubio a real-life Frank Underwood?

[Landslide Lyndon]

An explanation of why the Republican establishment's support for him is kinda lukewarm.

http://www.vox.com/2015/12/18/10461080/marco-rubio-man-in-a-hurry

Virtually every Democrat I talk to in Washington is equal parts delighted and baffled that Republican Party stakeholders have as of yet done nothing to seriously try to unify the party establishment behind Marco Rubio. The thinking behind the two emotions is identical. Rubio seems as electable (if not more so) as anyone else in the field, and as consistently conservative as anyone this side of Ted Cruz — someone GOP elites despise and who'd be relatively easy for Clinton to beat. Of the establishment-friendly candidates, Rubio clearly seems the strongest and yet is currently weaker than both Cruz and Donald Trump. So why is the establishment so unfriendly to him?

Perhaps the answer lurks in the frequency with which Rubio is described as "a man in a hurry" by everyone from the Washington Post to the New York Times to CNN to CNBC to the Los Angeles Times and CBS. It's a Washington cliché, and it's not intended as a compliment. It's also not a straightforward remark about his experience — he's served far more time in elected office than Mitt Romney. But it's also not really a complaint about the pace with which Rubio runs — it's about whom he steps on along the way. It's a reminder that it's only in the context of Trumpmania that Rubio looks like an establishment-friendly figure at all. If you stop looking at him through liberal-tinted lenses, you see a politician whose brief but tumultuous record in national politics is marked by fairly erratic behavior and a rather Cruz-like tendency to put personal ambitions ahead of the good of the party.

[Lief 🗽]

Well if the rumors are true, they both seem to have the same sexual preferences.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Nah. Frank Underwood (as portrayed by Kevin Spacey) has charisma, unlike Rubio.

[Higgs]

In your world every Republican is a real-life Frank Underwood.

[tpfkaw]

No; he's the puppet, not the puppeteer.

[TarHeelDem]

Nah. Frank Underwood (as portrayed by Kevin Spacey) has charisma, unlike Rubio.

[Maxwell]

No; he's the puppet, not the puppeteer.

Yes. He's too stupid to be Frank Underwood. Lyndon Johnson struck me as Frank Underwood.

[Penelope]

Only candidate who even comes close is Ted Cruz, imo.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

He never bothers to show up to work. He missed some very important budget votes today. Bernie voted despite some serious sh**t going down with his campaign.

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

He never bothers to show up to work. He missed some very important budget votes today. Bernie voted despite some serious sh**t going down with his campaign.

This is a real issue for Rubio.  You and I have to show up for work.  The guy has pretty much quit being a Senator to run for President, and, unlike Paul, really could not re-enter the FL Senate race without upsetting a slew of applecarts at this point.

[Rockefeller GOP]

In your world every Republican is a real-life Frank Underwood.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

From what I've seen of the show, Underwood is quite competent. I'm not sure that Rubio could find the Capitol building without a guide.

[Averroës Nix]

If Rubio has a House of Cards doppelganger it's obviously the Hispanic Republican Senator who suddenly disappears from the show for barely explained reasons.

[Maxwell]

If Rubio has a House of Cards doppelganger it's obviously the Hispanic Republican Senator who suddenly disappears from the show for barely explained reasons.

yes. MENDOZA.

[President Johnson]

No; he's the puppet, not the puppeteer.

Yes. He's too stupid to be Frank Underwood. Lyndon Johnson struck me as Frank Underwood.

I agree 100%.