Geriatric Democrats Should Fear Marco Rubio and the Republican Youth Wing
Just when you thought the Republican Party was destined to take a turn toward the ugly, two boyishly handsome young stars have emerged. On Wednesday night, Marco Rubio, the 44-year-old senator from Florida, was (by almost all accounts) the winner of the third Republican primary debate. And on Thursday, Paul Ryan, 45, was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. And just like that, everything changed: “The party of Boehner and Bush is now the party of Ryan & Rubio,” declared conservative opinion leader Bill Kristol on Twitter.
With Mr Rubio surging, there is hope that Republicans can avoid the fate of either a Donald Trump nomination (which would set the party in the wrong direction for the future) or of a Jeb Bush nomination (which would make it impossible for Republicans to run as change agents running against a “dynasty”).
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