Looks like he's not dancing with the ones that brung him.
The Tea Party giveth...the Tea Party taketh away.
Forget Reid and Schumer. How could any sensible conservative be sucked in by Juan McCain and Linseed Graham? When these two approached him, he should have fled as from Satan himself.
The co-option process begins when a newly elected member of Congress arrives in Washington. The party leaders are more than happy to provide her/him with the experienced staff members she/he will need to navigate the legislative process. Those who accept are like flies on flypaper.
And I didn't even have time for a smoke afterwards.
In a few more years he won't even be a senator.
Marco quit dancing with the ones who brung him 2 weeks after the election. I remember one of his first interviews where he said he didn’t know if he was really a tea partier. I knew then that he was already distancing himself from conservatives. I hope Fl has the sense not to re-elect him to the Senate.
Rush likes to remind his audience that the media didn't make him, so they can't break him. It's his audience that is responsible for Rush's success.
Rubio, on the other hand, is a creation, in many ways the same as obama is a creation.
With the GOPe's influence paving the way, Marco Rubio was injected into the national dialog with their pre-casting him in the role of young gun "GOP Conservative", including talk radio personalities' cred backing up that manufactured perception from the beginning.
Actions usually determine whether perception is fact or fiction.
Rubio's actions reveal his truth and the GOPe's truth. May his fall from grace continue until his character finally lands on something that can support his weight.
You would think that Ryan and all the other idiots in the house would learn from Rubio’s mistake.
I was supporting a candidate in OR who suddenly had a Hispanic from SEIU on his staff.
We asked him why and never got a believable response.
He cratered during the debates from poor prep.
It made you think afterwards....
He’s not a “movement conservative”, he’s just a movement (or a piece of one).
I got an early red flag on Rubio, when he gave a speech at a hotbed of leftist internationalism, the Brookings Institution.
http://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=d422e875-c1b9-4193-a0ab-9e09a7287d4f
“There are few global challenges that can be solved without decisive American leadership.”
“Our prosperity depends upon the liberal international order that America has supported since the end of World War II.”
Cesar Conda is a LEFTIST!! Rubio is either STUPID or a LIBERAL!! You are known by your friends.
but he looks too young to be a Quisling..
Oh vell..
Who is this five percent and are they allowed to operate heavy machinery?
Is there still a movement conservatism?
If so, where is it?
Rubio would fit in pretty well at National Review, the old mainstay of the movement, wouldn't he?
This suggests to me that Congressmen should have to do without staff. That way they would have to read and write legislation, do their own damn research, and actually think about the votes they take on bills.