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Marco Rubio Moves Toward 2016 Presidential Bid
ABC News ^ | January 23, 2015 | Jonathan Karl

Posted on 01/23/2015 6:01:48 AM PST by C19fan

Sen. Marco Rubio has begun taking concrete steps toward launching a presidential bid, asking his top advisors to prepare for a campaign, signing on a leading Republican fundraiser, and planning extensive travel to early-voting states in the coming weeks, ABC News has learned.

"He has told us to proceed as if he is running for president," a senior Rubio advisor tells ABC News.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016; 2016election; cuba; election2016; florida; potus; rubio; rubio2016; tedcruz; texas
Rubio talks like he part of the conservative base but all his actions so far indicates he is GOPe. Not voting for someone who was willing to get into bed with the likes of Schumer and Durbin and was made to look like a fool by them.
1 posted on 01/23/2015 6:01:48 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Mario should run as a Democrat. He might even win.


2 posted on 01/23/2015 6:06:44 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
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To: C19fan

Marco Rubio. Another Republican I will not vote for. Not that it matters because Jeb Bush is the nominee. Every thing else is just Kabuki.


3 posted on 01/23/2015 6:10:22 AM PST by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Immigration aside, you can’t be more wrong. He has American exceptionalism in his blood. He’s really good on basically every other issue. I am disgusted with his ploys and pleas on immigration a couple years ago, but outside of that period, he’s solid. Before that, I was thoroughly impressed with his campaign skills and political savvy. After that, question marks.


4 posted on 01/23/2015 6:24:31 AM PST by ilgipper
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To: C19fan

Rubio is an empty suit.


5 posted on 01/23/2015 6:27:00 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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To: ilgipper

He’d make a great Democrat.


6 posted on 01/23/2015 6:28:42 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
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To: C19fan
Sen. Marco Rubio has begun taking concrete steps toward launching a presidential bid

Why? Cuba already has a president.

7 posted on 01/23/2015 6:33:38 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: P-Marlowe

Well, he is somewhat less of an intellectual midget than ObaMao, who got elected twice. Doesn’t that make a compelling reason to support him? < / sarcasm >


8 posted on 01/23/2015 6:38:15 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: C19fan

That’s just great,
Huckabee, Jeb, Marco, Hillary, Mitt???????
Pathetic and worthless ALL.


9 posted on 01/23/2015 6:47:10 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Rubio. Mr. Amnesty.

Ran for the Senate opposing Amnesty, then teamed up with Schumer to pass it.

Traitor.


10 posted on 01/23/2015 6:58:19 AM PST by Oak Grove (H)
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To: C19fan

I’m done listening to Rubio, and I have been since Amnesty.

I do support a path to citizenship for criminals who entered our country illegally, stole identities to live here illegally, and committed other crimes in our country, just not the path he wants to force on us. My path is for those criminals to go home to their own countries, apply for legal entry, and come here like my ancestors did - with permission. As for the criminals who are caught here after illegal entry, they should be fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, and barred forever from any path to legal entry. No one should be rewarded for criminal behavior, not even undocumented democrats.


11 posted on 01/23/2015 7:12:12 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: ilgipper
Immigration aside

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how do you like the play?

12 posted on 01/23/2015 7:24:46 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ilgipper

I realized that La Raza RINO Rubio was a lib long ago. Libs lie, Rubio says one thing to US citizens and another thing to hispanics. Libs refuse to fight for what is right. Rubio believes we should go along with gay marriage because it’s the law of the land. See this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3244483/posts

Cuba Libre is no longer law of the land, per Obama, yet he’s crying about that. If the GOPe told him to be against abortion, he’d do that. If they tell him to pipe down on Cuba, he’ll do that too. He’s an unprincipled lying lib who is wholly owned by the GOPe. It’s just more noticeable in immigration because he was hired (chosen to run) specifically to push the illegal cause. He’s a shill, a puppet, a tool to be used by the GOPe to fool people.


13 posted on 01/23/2015 7:54:27 AM PST by Waryone
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To: Joe Boucher

I posed a question regarding the 2012 GOP debate stage of about a dozen wannabes:
I pose the same question again as the wannabes are hinting at running.

If so, no wonder they keep losing (1996, 2008, 2012.


14 posted on 01/23/2015 7:58:24 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: C19fan

Marco can count me out.


15 posted on 01/23/2015 8:56:16 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: TomGuy

yep,
They all are Bozo’s on that bus.


16 posted on 01/23/2015 10:14:08 AM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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