Marco Rubio Is Plenty Conservative

National Review ^ | December 29, 2015 | Jim Geraghty

[nathanbedford]

[Posted in substantially this form in August 2013]:

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad

-or at least they fill them with hubris

One cannot contemplate the tragic fall of Marco Rubio from the heights without a real feeling of sadness for what might have been. He was a man of extraordinary gifts who committed the major sin.

Rubio betrayed that he would risk the entire future of conservatism in America in order to advance his career. We conservatives equate the future the conservative movement with the future of the nation. Rubio consciously put the nation at risk for personal gain. The issue of immigration is an existential importance for conservatism and for the Republic. Rubio would cost us our sovereignty, our economic future, and any hope for preserving sanity in the polling booths for at least a generation. By the time America recovers from the immigration flood consciously created by the Democrat party to stack election demographics for generations, there might well be no grand American experiment to salvage. The issue of immigration is just that serious.

His defection could not have come at a worse time because it put him not just on the wrong side of the issue of immigration but on the wrong side of the ledger. The party is in the process of purification and it is looking for leaders whom they can trust for the very survival of the movement and of the nation. At a time when the party perceives John Boehner and Mitch McConnell to be selling us out on the issues of Obamacare and immigration, Marco Rubio's betrayal comes at a time when conservatives are marking their paladins to be either with us or with the enemy. Rubio sold out at a time when conservatives are looking to clean house and are in no mood to forgive.

Rubio has aligned himself with the elitists and against conservatives. He has done so at the worst time. In doing so he risks everything. We simply can no longer tolerate self dealing politicians who will sell us out. Rubio can never, ever be trusted.

[AdaGray]

Why would anyone vote for Beaver Cleaver?

[LS]

They are too soon in the bait and switch of Rubio for Cruz. That means either 1) they think Cruz has peaked/got all the mileage out of him they can, or 2) they think Rubio is in deep trouble & they can wait no longer.

[RKBA Democrat]

(Snort...snicker). So Mr. Amnesty is conservative, eh? Well, at least we know who the gop-e journal of record is pushing.

[Hawthorn]

>> Since your mind is made up in advance, you really do not wish to be troubled by the mere facts <<

Welcome to FR!

[skeeter]

The fact is, if Rubio got/gets his way on amnesty the entirety of the rest of the conservative agenda is la morte. History.

[vmivol00]

Did I write that? It looks like you might not pass your own literacy test.

If you are offended by me not like RINOs and the pimps who continually push them, that’s tough. Loathe away!

Say hi to Lindsay and Karl for me! Ha ha

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m still chortling. Rubio is done. Most GOP voters have recognized him for what he is a nakedly ambitious, disloyal little political hack who has basically quit his job in the senate due to lack of interest but keeps taking the paycheck.

[jwalsh07]

Yup. A fatal flaw. He was coopted by McCain and Graham and he will pay the price.

[Dave W]

I don’t know. The country is ill served by conspiracy theorists who are poorly informed and think of themselves as too good to be informed.

[Dave W]

That really is not the issue per se. The issue is people who are too good to inform themselves. I'm not voting for Rubio because of his big immigration blunder. Although, I don't think it was a blunder...it is who he is.

However, I am human enough to acknowledge that on almost all issues, Rubio is a conservative, but the immigration blunder is too big to overlook.

One can disagree without hating Rubio in the lowest form. It's obvious you are a Trump supporter, since from what I have read on this site most of Trump's supporters have no class, at all.

[Dave W]

You are completely narcissistic. I have known people like you and they all think the world revolves around them. Their families and friends often pay the price and many are required to feed egos similar to yours. The kids usually try to move away as far as they can and they still don't get it.

In the meantime, Obama is president for an additional year and three weeks. Why don't you do something productive and actually try to do something to help prevent implementation of some of his policies.

[dirtboy]

Are you kidding me? You are ragging on someone for calling NPR liberal?

[Paladin2]

Look to the future not the past. Eschew the GOPee.

[dfwgator]

Eschew the GOPee.

Gesundheit.

[Jeff Chandler]

It's obvious you are a Trump supporter

Remember, when you ASSume, you make an ass out of yourself.

[CPT Clay]

Could be either, I can’t really tell. There is some truth to both. Scary scenario is Cruz and Trump take 55 percent and Rubio unites GOPe w 45.

[Dave W]

Typical, tired, old, worn out cliché. Unoriginal.

[Dave W]

Typical, tired, old, worn out cliché. Unoriginal.

[Dave W]

Trust me. I am. I’m happy with Cruz or Trump. I think Trump will be a horrible president, but if he can build a wall like he has promised, and deport and/or make conditions so many will self deport, then anything extra is gravy.