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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/bush-allies-threaten-wave-of-harsh-attacks-on-rubio-an-ex-mentee.html

The cash-rich group aiding Jeb Bush’s White House run has filmed a provocative video casting his rival Marco Rubio as ultimately unelectable because of his hard-line stand against abortion.

That group, which has raised more than $100 million, has asked voters in New Hampshire how they feel about Mr. Rubio’s skipping important votes in the Senate.

And the group’s chief strategist has boasted of his willingness to spend as much as $20 million to damage Mr. Rubio’s reputation and halt his sudden ascent in the polls, according to three people told of the claim.

Seething with anger and alarmed over Mr. Rubio’s rise, aides to Mr. Bush, the former Florida governor, and his allies are privately threatening a wave of scathing attacks on his former protégé in the coming weeks, in a sign of just how anxious they have become about the state of Mr. Bush’s candidacy.

Their looming problem: In trying to undercut Mr. Rubio as unaccomplished and unprepared, Mr. Bush is a flawed messenger. Over the years he has repeatedly, and sometimes lavishly, praised the younger lawmaker, often on camera.

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Re: Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Rubio, an Ex-Mentee
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2015, 01:29:45 pm »
RINO fight!!!!!

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Re: Bush Allies Threaten Wave of Harsh Attacks on Rubio, an Ex-Mentee
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2015, 03:17:13 pm »
RINO fight!!!!!

Exactly.  I think they are going to "cancel" each other out.  Obviously Bush has more money to smear Rubio than Rubio has to smear him.  Rubio not doing his job as a Senator will hurt him in his home state along with his push for amnesty and Bush's "common core" and amnesty push will also hurt him in Florida.  Florida has several Tea Party members seated; the latest that I know of is Curt Clawson who was selected to give the official Tea Party Response to President Barack Obama's 2015 State of the Union Address.  I just don't see Florida going to either one of them.
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