It’s not so much that the thrill is gone with Marco Rubio, but definitely the passion has cooled.
Back when he was the daring insurgent taking on Charlie Crist, the Republican U.S. Senate candidate was exciting, edgy, a national superstar. Now, he’s the de facto Republican nominee, while Gov. Crist is all over TV talking about the oil catastrophe and other primary campaigns look much more exciting than Rubio’s.
“We’ve lost that aggressiveness and passion that we had with Marco Rubio when he was behind in the polls. We were ready to take the hill,” said Tom Eckert, a Republican activist from Oldsmar at a Rubio campaign stop in Tampa Monday. “Now it’s a period of regrouping.”
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