Because they are loud and have seniority on issues.

But it doesn’t mean they understand 4th gen warfare or technology in the information age.

It is always the case that older generations, someone mentioned above 45 year old here, are pretty clueless about somethings that the new generation view as closer to their heart. Normally that’s a pejorative stance, but it can also go in reverse.

We thought this was the year for experienced governors, but Walker is gone, Jindal can’t get started, Huckabee and Bush were governors too long ago (?), Christie will always have Bridgegate, Kasich likes to annoy conservatives. Of the poised and articulate senators, Rubio seems more electable. I like Fiorina but she worked for an evil corporation (I find it shocking how few people in this country understand profit, loss, or anything at all about the economy). Carson would make a good president for a parliamentary country where there’s a prime minister to do all the dirty work, and he could go to funerals and be a symbol of all that is good in the country. I don’t know what to make of Trump–all the work that goes on thinking, analyzing, explaining conservative principles–and the base goes for Trump! If he winds up running against Hillary, I’ll be looking third party.

I see I forgot my old fave, Rick Santorum, he’s so far down!

No such “Honor” among MSM-Thieves exists today. Marco Rubio’s life is an open book. Strength of Character, Integrity, Honor, Conservatism, Smart as Hell, Articulate/Nimble/Strong of Spine. Lemme seeee…Handsome, eloquent, knows how to prioritize…There, some of the things this Lifelong So.Californian, now Central Floridian, likes about the man. (*Ohhhh…Adores and honors his wife!!*)

And LOVES this Country and its unique Liberty.

If I wanted to go outside of the mainstream politicians, I would go Fiorina, Cruz, then Rubio.

I will, of course, support to the limits of my ability the GOP nominee against HRC. Even if it is Trump–but, that would be tough.

Told you once, but I guess you are a slow learner. You don’t need to worry about my feeling; nothing at all tender there. They were honed by 25 years in the USN, where feelings were not a big issue–until recently.

All of this reliance on current polls is a dangerous thing because it creates a bandwagon effect. Because Candidate X is leading he draws more money and voters. Hence, inevitable.

Monmouth released an Iowa poll on October 27th and only 19% of voters are firmly committed. In July Scott Walker was a clear number one.

Carson and Trump are not qualified to be president. Those voters will move.

This dirt on Rubio may be old news in Florida but is new news in the other 49 states. The use of some other entity’s credit card for his own personal use greatly concerns me.

The activist game, the only social cultural/political game there is.

As you allude to, priority is gaining control of and deploying the social nodes that produce and market narratives that prevail in the zeitgeist. That’s a function for a competitive collective activist movement, which means it’s a Right function. It’s not a GOP function.

Yet on the Right, “mainstream” conservatives continue to refuse to play the activist game and, instead, insist that Republicans achieve the activist function that belongs to the Right. The celebration of GOP candidates turning on the CNBC moderators is just another example of “mainstream” conservatives calling on Republicans to take on the Narrative contest for the zeitgeist while bereft of the activism by the Right that’s needed to seize the social nodes.

Nature abhors a vacuum in any competition, including the activist game that subsumes electoral politics. The effect of “mainstream” conservatives’ unwillingness to be activist is an opening for “anti Leftist rebels” from the alt-Right who are willing to be activist to displace and ultimately replace the “mainstream” conservatives whose unwillingness to be activist is rendering themselves obsolete in the activist game.

The Left activist takeover of the Democrats points the way for Right activists … or hungry alt-Right activists.

The youth vote is going the way Youtube and the internet tells them to go, which is namely Leftist thought police or anti Leftist rebels.

I do not see that in Rubio — or in Carson, Cruz, or Fiorina, or in virtually any of the others. (I *think* even Trump is open to advice, but he may turn out to be problematic in that regard.) Anyway, major difference there.