Rubio: I've learned lesson on immigration (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)

thehill.com ^ | 2/27/15 | Cameron Joseph

[cotton1706]

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he's learned he was wrong on his approach to immigration reform.

Rubio, a onetime Tea Party favorite whose support for a comprehensive immigration reform package hurt him with the GOP base, told the conservative crowd that he now understands U.S. borders must be secured before anything else can be done.

"It wasn't very popular, I don't know if you know that from some of the folks here," Rubio said with a smile, earning laughs from the crowd, when asked about his earlier support for the bill by Fox News host Sean Hannity.

"You have 10 or 12 million people in this country, many of whom have lived here for longer than a decade, have not otherwise violated our law other than immigration laws, I get all that," Rubio said. "But what I've learned is you can't even have a conversation about that until people believe and know, not just believe but it's proven to them that future illegal immigration will be controlled."

That tone is a big change from his support for the 2013 bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill that badly wounded him with the GOP base, though it's a return to the views he held before he joined the bipartisan group.

Rubio said recent border issues had proven his earlier approach was wrong, calling a border security first approach "the only way forward."

"You can't just tell people you're going to secure the border, we're going to do E-Verify. You have to do that, they have to see it, they have to see it working, and then they're going to have a reasonable conversation with you about the other parts, but they're not going to even want to talk about that until that's done first.

[bigtoona]

The key thing with Rubio is not that he has a differing opinion on immigration, but the fact that he lied to our faces about it and tried to trick us. He’s dead to me now, he cannot ever be trusted.

[SgtHooper]

Leave God out of it. This is a Peanuts episode where Lucy (FUMR) yanks the football one more time.

[Hoffer Rand]

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he's learned he was wrong on his approach to immigration reform needs to lie more convincingly during the election cycle to get elected before returning to his actual positions.

There, fixed it.

[SMARTY]

Yup!

Aren’ you tired of them insulting your intelligence like this?

For that alone, I hate the guy

[Pollster1]

Rubio: “Sorry about that little rape incident on our first date. Would you give me a chance with a second date?”

Any sane conservative has to reject that pick-up line.

[Dante3]

Sorry, I no longer trust Rubio.
Those who have violated our immigration laws for many years should be the first to be deported.

[freedom6178]

Now, whenever I hear Rubio talk all I hear is “BLAH,BLAH,BLAH!”

[gogeo]

"You have 10 or 12 million people in this country, many of whom have lived here for longer than a decade, have not otherwise violated our law other than immigration laws, I get all that," Rubio said. "But what I've learned is you can't even have a conversation about that until people believe and know, not just believe but it's proven to them that future illegal immigration will be controlled."

Not so, Rubio!

Who do you serve? What is your master? What guides what you do?

Our immigration policy is not about the needs of however many " Ready to be Americans," or whatever nonsense is being peddled by open border advocates. It's not about the needs of however many walking petri-dish, pregnant typhoid Marias manage to make it to the border.

It's about Americans. It's about our lives, our needs, our homes.

You can spout all the nonsense you wish about what needs to be done first...you can't hide that your priority is what comes after that.

The issue isn't what need be done first. The issue is your priorities.

[gogeo]

He hasn’t changed his mind, he’s changed his tactics.

[longtermmemmory]

so now he is a demonstration of a bad decision.

JebBush thinks he can just use the money he has to buy “magic words” to fool people.

[TomGuy]

... he's learned he was wrong on his approach to immigration reform.

So, it was his approach that was wrong, not his intent.

He probably also has adapted the ole 'secure the border' canard that many of the amnesty pushers use.

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{sniff sniff}

Nah, Mario, you still have the stench on your shoes from stepping in the gang of 8. You will never get rid of that.

[11th Commandment]

I know you laugh, but the GOPe (who, by the way supported Crist in the Fl senate primary) used a young enthusiatic senator to get an his panic name on the bill. SHAMEFUL.... but at the same time, Rubio is a big boy. Rubio got wise when Obama was already violating security promises while the House was considering the bill.