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" I got back from Haysville in time to listen to Marco Rubio declare his magnificent victory as the show horse in the Republican field. I will grant you that he surpassed everyone&amp;#039;s expectations\u2014including my own\u2014by clearing the 20 percent mark on Monday night. I even will grant you that he is probably the choice now of every Republican terrified of He, Trump and utterly skeeved out by Tailgunner Ted Cruz. Some of the others might get some run in New Hampshire. (Not Jeb-!-, please god. That would be cruel.) But this looks like a three-man race now, and the Rubio campaign did a masterful job pitching that notion over the last four days before the caucuses, and much of the elite political press bit for it. Now, Rubio was up there, defining himself as The Alternative in a political environment already primed by his campaign to believe it. &amp;quot;For America is not a special country by accident,&amp;quot; Rubio said. &amp;quot;Each generation before us sacrificed, and they confronted their challenges. They embraced their opportunities and, for two centuries, each generation has left the next one better off. Now, it&amp;#039;s our turn. Now the moment has arrived for this generation of America to rise up.&amp;quot; Get used to this tinpot Sorensonian rhetoric because the Rubio people have been leaning on the JFK button very hard.\u00A0 (Brief Historical Note\u2014when Marco Rubio was 26, he was about to take a job on the Miami City Commission. When JFK was 26, he was towing an injured shipmate between enemy-held islands with his teeth. Just sayin&amp;#039;.)\u00A0 We&amp;#039;re going to hear a lot of it going into New Hampshire and going forward. I suspect we might hear a bit less about Rubio&amp;#039;s having turtled on immigration and his enthusiastic embrace of every euphemism for &amp;quot;torture&amp;quot; that can be found in the thesaurus. If the Republican &amp;quot;establishment&amp;quot; is going to groom him, those are the topics that are going to be limited to the inside voice, at least until we all get to South Carolina, where Rubio once again can run as the fanged chameleon that he is. But, give him credit. The man&amp;#039;s got a campaign that knows its business. As opposed to the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, which stepped all over itself on Monday night. It leaked a declaration of &amp;quot;victory&amp;quot; to Andrea Mitchell, who dutifully ran with it, despite the fact that the Democratic process was ridiculously close. Then HRC gave a &amp;quot;victory speech&amp;quot; and you could practically hear the plane warming up outside the hall. Gone, baby, gone. This left Bernie Sanders with a prime speaking slot of which he made the most. All of this may change in a week but, for right now, the ground all over Iowa is littered with chunks of broken narratives. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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