Marco Rubio Quotes
If you know the only way to lose your seat is to get out-conservatived in a primary, you'll never let anyone get to your right.
Rubio, Marco. An American Son: A Memoir. Sentinel, 2012, p. 192.
The Vice President had quoted Ronald Reagan’s famous inaugural address statement {630713}. Once Quayle became the number two man in the government, he was asked if he were part of the problem which elicited this famous response.
Since the early 20th century, conservatives have nominated candidates who were ideologically pure but so extreme that they offended too much of the electorate to get elected. Buckley advocated weeding these candidates out, His principle became very material in the early 21st century when the conservative fundamentalist Tea Party unseated strong conservative incumbents in primary elections in favor over more extreme conservative candidates who could not win general elections.
The Repubican primary contest weakened Mitt Romney, the eventual primary winner and Presidential Candidate, by forcing him to the right to satisfy the conservative Republicans. This made him very unappealing not only to some moderate republicans but also to independents and especially to minorities and women who very much resented the conservative Republican culture clash which they saw as attacks on them. Democrat Barack Obama won the General Election handily.
Marco Antonio Rubio is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Florida. A Republican, he previously served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Rubio unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2016, winning presidential primaries in Minnesota, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
