Marco Rubio Versus The Media

NO “PROCESS STORIES”

|| By FITSNEWS || A South Carolina political operative working on the presidential campaign of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is trying to shut down “process stories” by refusing to speak to the reporters who write them … even as anonymous Rubio advisors leak flattering tidbits about their candidate to outlets like National Review and The Washington Post in the hopes of generating precisely such stories.

Terry Sullivan – who slaved away for years on behalf of dozens of liberal “Republican” politicians in the Palmetto State – has reportedly been “boasting to reporters in advance of the campaign’s kickoff that they won’t take part in inside baseball stories this cycle at all,” according to Buzzfeed’s McKay Coppins.

You know … “inside baseball” stories like THIS.

According to Coppins, extensive “hand-to-hand combat in the political press only served to further alienate Rubio from the Right” during the contentious U.S. Senate debate over immigration in 2013 – leaving him “poisoned by the toxic runoff.”

Rubio’s people obviously want to avoid that … or use that as an excuse to play favorites in the press.

“Process” or otherwise, Rubio isn’t generating much in the way of presidential buzz during the early stages of the 2016 “Republican” primary.  Here in early-voting South Carolina, for example, his name was actually left off of a recent survey … indicative of the extent to which he needs to get busy generating stories (again, “process” or otherwise).

Our view of Rubio?  It’s not flattering.

Like so many “conservative” politicians before him, we believe he had tremendous potential … but he chose to go to the dark side rather than stand for freedom and free markets.

We can’t abide such betrayal, nor should you if you care about the direction of our country …

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