Another Shakespearean Take on Jeb and Marco

Marco Rubio has just finished addressing his supporters after the South Carolina primary.  He and his aide, Horatio, are looking for their rental car when they see a faded Jeb Bush campaign poster.  Marco stops to contemplate it.

M:  Alas, poor Jeb!  He was my mentor, Horatio.  Now he is as dead as Yorick.

H:  Politicians are like athletes–they die twice.  Sometimes more than twice.  Just ask Mike Huckabee.

M:  He gave me a sword, and I beheaded him.  It feels like patricide.

H:  Yes, I can see it now:  Rubio Rex!  Just leave out the part about sleeping with your mother.

M:  He’ll be humiliated at family gatherings.  And most of it is his brother’s fault.

H:  His brother poisoned the well, and he drank from it.

M:  He should never have run.

H:   He was a man of his times, and the times changed.

M:  Oh, well.  We need to move on.  There are battles ahead in foreign lands with Trump and Cruz, and we actually need to win this time.

H:  Woe be to all if we should lose

To Trump or that extremist, Cruz.

They find the rental car and head for the airport.