Live Post: And then there were Four

Ladies and Gentlemen!  Go find your Antacids!!!

It’s yet another ghastly hatefest that FoxNews calls the Republican Presidential Primary Debate.  Live from Detroit!  It’s the Xenophobia/Racism/Misogyny/White Male Anger Party!!!

There aren’t many left standing but I can’t imagine even trusting any of them to walk my dog or feed my cat, let alone run my country.

Carson bailed this week.  The pundits believe that Rubio’s path to an outright victory has disappeared.

Marco Rubio’s path to the Republican nomination short of a contested convention has narrowed to nearly nothing as his campaign and allies reboot their strategy to prepare for months of guerrilla warfare to deny Donald Trump a clean, pre-convention victory.

The math for Rubio is daunting. After getting thoroughly routed on Super Tuesday, Rubio is in so deep a delegate hole that he would now need to win roughly two-thirds of all the remaining delegates to guarantee his nomination ahead of Cleveland, according to a POLITICO analysis.

That is an enormously difficult, if not impossible, climb for a candidate who has so far won only a single state, Minnesota, and especially one who is not predicting victory in any of the next dozen states and territories that cast ballots, until his home state of Florida votes on March 15.

“It’s fair to say that Rubio’s path to 1,237 is shot,” Dave Wasserman, an analyst with the Cook Political Report who closely tracks the delegate race, said of the threshold to secure the nomination.

“There’s virtually no chance for Marco Rubio to get to a majority prior to the convention,” said John Yob, who served as a top delegate strategist for Rick Santorum in 2012 and John McCain in 2008.

Even inside the Rubio orbit, there has been an acknowledgement that as long as Ted Cruz (and John Kasich) stay in the race, they have virtually zero mathematical chance of securing the nomination. Asked directly by Fox’s Megyn Kelly on Wednesday night if it was now “mathematically impossible” for him to be the nominee, Rubio dodged.

My thought is that Rubio was basically a VEEP and not much else.  He’s not too bright and he really doesn’t appear to enjoy working at anything.  However, he’s managed to totally cut himself off from that path having been replaced by the Chris Christie lapdog and Mr. Slave act.  Rubio’s made far too many penis size jokes for that now and his Senate seat is as good as gone.

Romney is looking to block the Trump at the Convention.

Others are looking at a (GAG) dream unity ticket of Cruz and Rubio.  This is the National Review and a Cruz advisor so please don’t go there without Peptobismal close by.

In the immediate wake of Super Tuesday, each has much to gain from such a deal. As the candidate currently with more delegates, Cruz would love to get enough support from Rubio’s delegates to secure the nomination. For Rubio, currently in third place, for whom holding his home state of Florida has now become a do-or-die situation, the idea of securing the vice presidency would be a valuable insurance policy. As a young man, he would have an inside track to the presidency in eight years. Our current immigration situation would likely be addressed by a Cruz-Rubio administration to the degree that the issue would no longer be any obstacle for him in 2024. The beauty of this arrangement is that the primary voters would be the ones to decide which candidate will be at the top of the ticket. And voters could freely vote for their favorite with much less concern that failing to rally around the other would be helping Trump. Let Ted compete with Trump in the states with electorates like Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and Alaska. Let Marco compete with Trump in states with electorates like Florida and Minnesota.

If you don’t have the stomach for the TV, you can watch on the internet.

Here we go folks!