Marco Rubio – The Republican Obama?
Marco Rubio has not yet won the Republican nomination for the Florida Senate election in November, but several of his party’s bigwigs and militants already think of him as a 2012 presidential candidate, according to this item by Ben Smith. Born in Miami of Cuban parents, the former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives collected no less than $3.6 million in the first quarter of 2010 in his campaign against Charlie Crist, the Republican governor of his state.
Even if many Republicans see in him another Barack Obama (more experienced, certainly), Rubio would only have two years, if elected in November, to prepare himself to make the leap from the Senate to the White House, rather than four — as was the case for the former Illinois Senator. Darling of the Tea Party movement, he will celebrate his 39th birthday on May 28th. I devoted this article to him a few weeks ago.
Even if many Republicans see in him another Barack Obama (more experienced, certainly), Rubio would only have two years, if elected in November, to prepare himself to make the leap from the Senate to the White House, rather than four — as was the case for the former Illinois Senator. Darling of the Tea Party movement, he will celebrate his 39th birthday on May 28th. I devoted this article to him a few weeks ago.