In the modern Republican primary, you don’t compete for voters, you compete for donors. Thus Marco Rubio, who is obviously massively vulnerable with voters because he won election by running against Amnesty and promptly became a major backer of the Gang of Eight Amnesty/ Immigration Surge bill, nevertheless took a step closer to consolidating the Republican Establishment around his candidacy by gaining the support of Open Borders billionaire Paul Singer. As Fortune noted:
Singer, the 71-year-old founder of hedge fund Elliott Associates, is not only one of the Republican party’s largest individual donors but is also regarded as especially influential among wealthy Republicans—the kind of campaign backer who can spur others to follow him.
[Billionaire investor Paul Singer backs Marco Rubio, by Jack Dickey, October 31, 2015]
As a kind of afterthought, we are told among Singer’s main causes are “same-sex marriage and U.S. support for Israel.”
Rubio’s campaign welcomed its new plutocratic overlord ...
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