Posted on 06/24/2013 7:40:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin on Monday came out against the Senate immigration bill, criticizing its border security provisions and labeling Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) an “amnesty supporter.”
“It’s beyond disingenuous for anyone to claim that a vote for this bill is a vote for security,” Palin wrote on her Facebook page. “Look no further than the fact that Senator Rubio and amnesty supporters nixed Senator [John] Thune’s amendment that required the feds to finally build part of a needed security fence before moving forward on the status of illegal immigrants who’ve already broken the law to be here.”
Palin also criticized the decision to spurn so-called “trigger” provisions — sponsored by Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) — that would halt the path to citizenship until certain border security benchmarks are met.
She said a new border security agreement, crafted by Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and set for a vote Monday, is inadequate.
“Now the Senate’s pro-amnesty crowd is offering a fig leaf to security via the Corker-Hoeven Amendment, but this is really nothing more than empty promises. It’s amnesty right now and border security … eh, well, someday,” she wrote.....
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You mean useless idiot.
Either works.
YES!
Conservative leaders? You don’t know FL very well. Conservative leaders purposely redistricted Allen West out of a congressional seat. Remember Charlie Crist? He is an example of a conservative leader in FL. All hat, zero cattle.
Sarah only partly nailed it. She should say the same thing about mccain.
Thank you for the FB reminder. I had been targeting Corker and Hoevner (sp?)but forgot about Rubio having a FB page.
I just went on there and blasted him on three separate threads. There are some very angry people on his FB page, and they are laying into him.
The FB comments are wild! They’re all getting their comeuppance.
The GOPe is triangulating Rubio for a run at higher office...they are setting him up on one issue to tick off the conservativwes, so he will have cred with the “undecideds” in the next election. IF he was too pure, the liberal squishy middle would not go for him, according to the GOPe thinking.
They can have the squishy middle, they won’t get this conservative.
The only other politician on the landscape who speaks for conservatism is Ted Cruz, and he isn’t eligible to be president. Maybe we’ll have a female catfight in 2016: Hillary vs. Sarah. Sarah will mop the floor with her.
Cruz begs to differ.
So if you think Cruz is wrong about his own eligibility, you must think he’s really stupid or just another liar.
Just sayin’...
Or both.
Rubio is a 2013 version of Mel Martinez...
Most here knew he was an open borders pimp, but in the primary it was him or "tan in a bottle," Crist, who registered as a democrat after he lost.
On election day, that was true (even on the primary election day, the choices were Rubio vs. two unknown jokes).
HOWEVER, it wasn't true when the race to succeed Martinez started. It was a wide open field and you had at least half a dozen Republicans exploring a campaign for the U.S. Senate. It very quickly became a two-way Rubio vs. Crist choice because the "tea party" groups made the SAME mistake they made in 2004, and endorsed Rubio the moment he jumped in the race, throwing all their money and resources behind him as THE conservative choice, and refusing to give any other conservative candidate the time of day.
Again, they have only themselves to blame for making the same mistake twice. You'd think after Martinez they'd learn to stop blindly endorsing whatever "rising star" shows up and tells them whatever they want to hear.
No one thought Rubio was or might be a flip flop waiting to happen Jeb Bush amnesty pimp except for a few sharp folks like Billyboy and you too I guess Itsahoot. He was a tea party poster boy, everyone loved him.
Unfortunately I don’t think there was anyone else thinking of running that could have beaten traitor Crist except maybe Adam Hasner who is probably to Rubs left a little bit (I don’t know how he feels about amnesty). Who else was exploring? Mack the lesser? Scarborough? Gag me. Am I forgetting someone?
Looks to me like rubio wants to ride with Cristy .....more big tent crap. I see Paul and Cruz now.
With Mel Martinez, I was pretty sure off right off the bat he was full of crap with his "I'm against amnesty" talking points, and said so right on FR when he was running for Senate. Tons of red herrings with that guy: donating tons of money to liberal Dems, trial lawyer, rubber stamp for whatever George W. Bush told him to do (and Bush definitely wanted amnesty in 2004), gave loans to illegal aliens to purchase HUD homes when he was secretary of HUD, etc.
Rubio was a lot more charismatic and slicker. I didn't know either way if he was for or against amnesty. I suggested conservative groups should move pretty cautiously after the Martinez fallout and not endorse anyone until they were certain the guy could be trusted. Nope, my pleas fell on the deaf ears. Rubio has announced his candidacy = ENDORSE!!!!!!!!!!! WOO-HOO, GO RUBES!!!
And Florida conservatives are whining about how he "betrayed" them too. Like I said, if they want someone to blame, look in the mirror.
Remember this....
Marco Rubio for President! Woo! Woo!
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