Rubio And The GOP Establishment Make Their First Last Stand

ANDERSON, S.C. -- If you think the way Republican party strategists do, then you would have loved the scene here at the Hilton Garden Inn ballroom Thursday afternoon, two days before the GOP holds its crucial presidential primary in South Carolina.

It was a polite, well-dressed crowd: comfortable upstate businesspeople and students from nearby Clemson University. It was the kind of crowd that turned out for -- and voted for -- two generations of Bush family members in years past.