{"id":78022,"date":"2015-10-29T16:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T00:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78022"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:20:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T00:20:46","slug":"republican-elites-settle-on-marco-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=78022","title":{"rendered":"Republican Elites Settle On Marco Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/media-decide-genuine-conquistador-american-better-than-conquistador-american-in-law\/#comments\">Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: After the 2012 election, the GOP Brain Trust decided the highest priority was to run a Presidential candidate who was obviously all on board with electing a new people. Granted, mostly old white people vote in Republican primaries, but are you going to let little things like elections stand in the way of a strategic masterplan?<\/p>\n<p>The experts initially settled upon Latino-in-Law Jeb Bush on the grounds that Jeb\u2019s Mommy Issues that led him to marry the woman in the world least like ol\u2019 Barb made him the perfect fit. But those pesky Republican voters have so far failed to grasp the palpable brilliance of this strategy. So last night the experts shifted their allegiance from the Latino-in-Law to the Birthright Latino.<\/p>\n<p>Comments:<\/p>\n<p>* Barbara and Columba ended up being more alike than he bargained for \u2013 both moody, lonely women whom Jeb considered his duty to try to placate and tiptoe around. Barbara anguished about her rapid loss of youthful beauty as HW globetrotted and flirted around during the 1960s-70s, and Columba dealt with homesickness and culture shock. 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