Marco Rubio Master Thread

[sonofdaxjones]

Don't get why Fox Biz guys are blasting Jeb on banking, his points on the trials of regional and local banks were absolutely spot on.

[sys]

Don't get why Fox Biz guys are blasting Jeb on banking, his points on the trials of regional and local banks were absolutely spot on.

everybody hates jeb.

[sonofdaxjones]

Don't get why Fox Biz guys are blasting Jeb on banking, his points on the trials of regional and local banks were absolutely spot on.

everybody hates jeb.

Too Centrist for some I suppose.

[Kat Kid]

Don't get why Fox Biz guys are blasting Jeb on banking, his points on the trials of regional and local banks were absolutely spot on.

Jeb may have been the only person on that stage or among the moderators that knew the FDIC is an actual thing.

[renocat]

Readin a fox news thing about its focus group that declared Rubio the winner.  One guy liked that he had a vision for America.  Others phrases like, passionate, youthful, articulate, and inspirational are used to describe him.  My take. Nice, not a blowhard, reasonable, not a rigid ideolog, better looking man than MG, and a dirt grinder grunt boy from humble beginnings. No one gave him a million dollars to start life.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Don't get why Fox Biz guys are blasting Jeb on banking, his points on the trials of regional and local banks were absolutely spot on.

Jeb may have been the only person on that stage or among the moderators that knew the FDIC is an actual thing.

I love Kasich, but when he said "what about the innocent depositors? You have to rescue the bank!"  .  Cruz understands the depositors are insured.

[sys]

still haven't watched the debate, so i don't know the context, but lots of depositors have over 250k.  corporate accounts and the whatnot.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

still haven't watched the debate, so i don't know the context, but lots of depositors have over 250k.  corporate accounts and the whatnot.

that's their problem.

[sys]

still haven't watched the debate, so i don't know the context, but lots of depositors have over 250k.  corporate accounts and the whatnot.

that's their problem.

john kasich cares about his constituents' problems.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

Yeah, rescuing a tiny minority of depositors with over $250k sitting in deposit accounts is not a compelling reason for another massive bailout. It's just crony capitalism.

[john "teach me how to" dougie]

still haven't watched the debate, so i don't know the context, but lots of depositors have over 250k.  corporate accounts and the whatnot.

that's their problem.

john kasich cares about his constituents' problems.

They can open another account.

[star seed 7]

Probably should just have a national Bank

[CNS]

Or separate  banks into parts that do standard banking stuff and parts that do speculative stuff and make sure that the two are not financially linked so that when the latter's risky behavior turns into economy AIDS, it doesn't directly infect the former.

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[john "teach me how to" dougie]

Or separate  banks into parts that do standard banking stuff and parts that do speculative stuff and make sure that the two are not financially linked so that when the latter's risky behavior turns into economy AIDS, it doesn't directly infect the former.

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That's pretty much what the Glass-Steagall act did until it's repeal in 1999, leading to the 2008 collapse.

[Kat Kid]

still haven't watched the debate, so i don't know the context, but lots of depositors have over 250k.  corporate accounts and the whatnot.

In retrospect kasich probably got boo'd for recognizing this exact point midway through his rant about protecting grannies and hard working Americans and letting "those that can afford it" take he hit.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

I would be very surprised if the fdic had the resources to pay up to $250k per deposit account at an institution the size of BOA or Wells. A bailout would almost certainly be required to make those people whole.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

At YE 2014, the fdic reserve fund had $52 billion in assets. BOA has at least 20x that in deposits.

[Dugout DickStone]

I think the bailout was a one time thing, you'd have a pretty unstable populace if it happened again

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

Well shoot. Marco still hasn't learned his lesson on immigration. He's doomed in both the primary and the general unless he moves to stricter enforcement. It may already be too late.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/15/us/politics/despite-shift-rubios-work-on-immigration-creates-conservative-unease.html?_r=0&referer=

And so he lingers around 9% in the polls and Cruz will soon overtake him as the top Trump alternative. I'll never understand why such gifted politicians have such gaping blind spots. I guess they surround themselves with the wrong people that warp their perception of the electorate.

[star seed 7]

It's that part of him that's a decent human being

[Kat Kid]

I would be very surprised if the fdic had the resources to pay up to $250k per deposit account at an institution the size of BOA or Wells. A bailout would almost certainly be required to make those people whole.

Yeah, it is very hard to know what anyone is talking about exactly because everyone uses short hand that is very vague and ill-defined:

"big banks"
"bailout"

But I don't know that there was anyone saying federally insured deposits should not be guaranteed.

[wetwillie]

I think Rubio is going to win the nomination , Clinton campaign does too, so does Vegas

[Yard Dog]

There is no one I trust more on the topic of national security in the presidential field right now. Rubio gets it. I wish people could see that.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/11/15/rubio_on_radical_islam_label_the_nazis_self-identified_as_nazis_we_werent_afraid_to_offend_germans.html

[renocat]

I think Rubio is going to win the nomination , Clinton campaign does too, so does Vegas

Agree.  Any other Republican would lose to MG, especially WUD, Carson and Bush.  Did  Vegas get the bets right in the past.

[K-S-U-Wildcats!]

I think Rubio is going to win the nomination , Clinton campaign does too, so does Vegas

Agree.  Any other Republican would lose to MG, especially WUD, Carson and Bush.  Did  Vegas get the bets right in the past.

I can't deny the polls any longer. I keep telling myself after each lackluster debate performance by Trump and Carson that now they'll start to fade, and they keep improving their position. Americans, and conservative voters in particular, are angry - that's not a strong enough word, they're rough ridin' pissed and disgusted - at a political process and a Republican party that has betrayed them, particularly on immigration. They're not wrong to feel this way.

Rubio could have broken through if he had made a stronger shift toward immigration enforcement, but he's still trying to appease his donors (and perhaps his own sensibilities), and he's dooming his own candidacy.

If I had to make a guess today, Trump or Cruz will win the nomination, garner a very enthusiastic 45% of the vote in the general, and lose to Hillary Clinton in a landslide.