jvjv at posthaven

In the Politics as Theater department. This is insightful, in its way.

Jeb plays the pearl-clutching victim with Trump, scorning him for calling John McCain bad names, and playing up his conflict with Trump in the media while his super PACs spend no money attacking Trump and lots of money on his petty vendetta against Rubio. Sad!

Rubio should go a different route. He must mount own his attack against Trump, and do it himself, instead of having someone else cut an ad. He should publicly and quite clearly challenge Trump to a fight, and win that fight.

That's how he becomes the non-Trump, non-Cruz candidate — the candidate of the majority of voters and stakeholders of the Republican Party, and hence that party's nominee for president of the United States. He can do it. But time is running short.