Posted on 05/16/2015 2:35:57 AM PDT by South40
WASHINGTON, D.C., and MIAMI — On the afternoon of July 30, 2013, Marco Rubio walked onto the floor of the Senate to give another stem-winder — the latest in a season of feisty speeches.
“Is there an issue on which we are willing to do everything we can and lay it all on the line?” Rubio asked his fellow senators. “If it is not this one, which one is it?”
For months, the freshman from Florida had been one of the central figures in American politics. The previous November, Republican Mitt Romney had received only 27 percent of Latino support on his way to losing the election, and that same night the GOP pinned its hopes on Rubio, a 41-year-old Cuban-American who had served in Washington for less than two years.
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Go away Baby Rubio.
What a rube...
Immigration amnesty is so dangerous to the Republic, to the Republican Party, and to conservatism that it should not require any serious analysis on the part of a Republican legislator to conclude that he must oppose it. Those who do not oppose must offer some explanation other than they have sold out the moneyed interests of the Republican establishment.
An explanation that we must reward illegality in order to stop illegality is preposterous on its face and forces any rational observer of a Republican politician who offers this explanation to no other conclusion except that this politician, too, is on the take. He is either on the take for campaign contributions, for acceptance into the establishment, or for toadying to the media-and the entire heavy-handed bias in this Yahoo piece thoroughly demonstrates its media bias.
Marco Rubio is a brilliant, even charismatic speaker but he has forfeited any claim to conservative support.
Thanks for posting - good article.
I learned a lot about Rubio, hopefully Rush gets around to reading in between his groveling sessions over Rubio.
So Rubio was a Trojan Horse from the start in the Republican Party, at least when it came to coddling Illegals. But he managed to keep that bottled up because he had to get to the right of Agent Orange. But that was still him and he couldn’t hold back - so he very nearly DESTROYED this country once he thought that he had the power to do so.
As I’ve said before, for him to have any chance of redeeming himself, he needs another 12 years in the Senate with a solid conservative voting record. He is not even close to redeeming himself at this point.
Why is this guy considered a presidential contender? Could it possibly be pandering by the GOPe?
Yep—and every GOP candidate for president is pro-amnesty. They only differ in degree. (Cruz, at the best on the issue, would legalize the 20 million-plus illegals here currently, and only leave it to others to give them citizenship.)
Another GOP sissy boy for Uncle Sheldon one of our oligarchs doing his best to suck up the QE easy money while our country slowly starve. Rubio another worthless little boy who sits on the edge of his chair when interrogated by the media propagandists.
There is no redemption for lying from the heart.
That sealed his fate forever.
“There is no redemption for lying from the heart.”
I won’t argue that...I’m just trying to give him a face-saving way out and hopefully buy us another decade before we have to have yet-another Amnesty fight.
Why does any of this matter?
After all he is young and cute...that’s all that matters to the sheep of America. He’s the reincarnation of Kennedy.
The President we have now was elected by guilt ridden whites due to his color alone. Rubio should have his shot at being elected because he is young and cute.
/Sarc
Perfect, simply perfect.
Below is the Florida deadline for federal office candidates. Marco can either stay in the presidential race or opt out before to hopefully remain as a Senator. He cannot do both under Florida law.
I predict he will run the Presidential gauntlet up to the last second and then bow out to retain his Senate seat. I still will support Ron DeSantis who has already made his intentions known and will abstain if Rubio falls back and runs again for the Senate.
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I agree. I’ve thought about that too. He has to say that he’s not going to run for Senate to have credibility as a presidential candidate, but in the end, is he really going to quit the Senate. He hasn’t been there long enough to get the big bucks on K-Street like Cantor’s getting...so go back home and “practice law”. Nope. And how does he launch another Presidential campaign after dropping out of high-society after just one Senate term?
He’ll be running for re-election...almost for sure, and if he can behave for now on in the Senate, perhaps in the far-off future he can make another (more credible) run at the big prize.
Yes, Marco listened to the Serpent and ate of the Eight Ball of Knowledge of which we told him not to eat. For that, he will be banished from electoral Eden.
What makes Rubio’s “stumble” so reprehensible is that he ran against an establishment RINO (who later turned Dem) specifically on the issue of opposing amnesty. And then the second the votes were counted, turned into a whole-hog amnesty promoter.
-— Why is this guy considered a presidential contender? -—
It’s a mystery to me. He was the FL Speaker of the House, so I guess he is used to cutting deals.
He has already announced he is resigning from the Senate. Of course, you’re probably thinking, “why should we believe him?”
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