Rep. Marco Rubio, Former Gov. Jeb Bush and former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough. Rubio Credit: Flickr user DavidAll06

Websites and organizations of every description are looking to draft former Gov. Jeb Bush and former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough, who now hosts a morning news show on MSNBC, into what probably will be a crowded field gunning for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.

Add to those names a third. The rise of former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate and the clear front-runner in the U.S. Senate race, has supporters pointing to his charisma and ability to run a rocket of a campaign -- and they're saying don't rule him out.

While none of the three has been particularly active in laying the groundwork for a presidential bid, they all have backers urging them to run -- and taking to the Internet to do it.

Possible Republican presidential candidates include former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, former New York Gov. George Pataki, U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, U.S. Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.

As the son of one president and the brother of another, Jeb Bush has been the center of national attention during his political career. There were attempts to encourage him to run for the White House in 2008, though that was deemed unlikely as his brother was just finishing an unpopular presidency, and even an effort to enlist the former governor in 2010 to run for his old job or for the U.S. Senate seat failed.

When it was rumored that Bush was considering running for the Senate in 2010, a Facebook group looking to promote his candidacy pulled more than 200 members before Bush squashed the buzz. Another Facebook group looking to draft Bush for president in 2012 has already garnered almost 900 members.

Some Republican and conservative activists are looking to get Scarborough to run for the presidency in 2012. He represented the Panhandle in Congress for three terms after winning in the Republican takeover of 1994.

“Joe understands that conservatism is rooted in the ideas of a restrained foreign policy, a sustainable budget, the promotion of entrepreneurship, and conserving our resources,” wrote the founders of the “Draft Joe Scarborough” website. “Conservatives should consider Joe’s combination of politics and tone the path forward.”

The Scarboroughites have less than 200 backers on Facebook and must contend with the weight of history. Republican James Garfield was the last president to be elected whose highest rank was in the U.S. House -- and that was in 1880.

The rise of Rubio has prompted a small buzz of putting the former speaker of the Florida House on the Republican ticket in 2012 as either the presidential or the vice presidential candidate. While Rubio’s team has played down such talk, insisting they are focusing on the Senate contest, it is a testimony to how an almost unknown politician, who was a heavy underdog when he started to beat Gov. Charlie Crist in the primary, has come up in less than two years.