Posted on 05/09/2015 5:55:07 AM PDT by cotton1706
After four years in the Senate, Marco Rubio, no doubt feeling he has accomplished everything he set out to in Congress, has aimed his sights higher, to the Presidency. Or, more pragmatically, to the Vice-Presidency; if an Anglo gets nominated, Rubio will be very high on the VP list; of course, if a Hispanic like Cruz or a virtual Hispanic like Bush gets nominated, then all bets are off.
But in the mean time there will be an opening in 2016 for Rubio's senate seat, since he had decided not to run for two seats at the same time, like Rand Paul. And the contours of that primary race are beginning to come into focus.
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Meanwhile, Rep. DeSantis gets an A rating from conservativereview.com. He voted (1) against funding Homeland Security to include funding for amnesty; (2) for the Keystone Pipeline, (3) against a bill that funded executive amnesty, (4) against funding the Export-Import Bank, (5) to freeze Obama's amnesty program for so-called "Dreamers", (6) against increasing the debt limit, (7) against federal funding of abortions, and (8) against the 1,600 page omnibus spending bill. Can you guess who the Chamber of Commerce is going to oppose in this race?
Others may also get into the race:
Rep. Jeff Miller stopped here Thursday as part of a state listening tour to gauge support for a potential bid. Former state Attorney General Bill McCollum is making calls to see how much support he can muster. Rep. David Jolly, former Sen. George LeMieux and state Sen. Don Gaetz have expressed interest as well.
Let's hope two conservatives don't get in and split the vote so Lopez-Cantera squeaks in. I don't trust policitians who vote to raise taxes and give benefits to illegal aliens.
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I hope so. DeSantis is tops in that group as far as I am concerned.
The slippery slope of needing a “Latino” on the presidential ticket will just get more slippery as the numbers grow and there is still no desire to assimilate. Where will the demands end?
California back to Mexico...well, that might not be so bad.
Yeah good question cuz if a republican becomes president all of sudden CONGRESS MIGHT MATTER AGAIN.
Someone must have made some serious promises to Rubio for him to quit his Senate seat...
No doubt. Some said he really doesn’t like being a Senator. If so, I don’t blame him. There is not a more despicable group of people on earth than the lifers in both parties that run the Senate. Pre-2010, I could not count to three that were worth a damn...out of 100.
/johnny
I know Heritage is now scoring cloture votes. I believe Conservative Review is too.
They’re not going to get away with that game anymore. And Cruz has been playing that up. I think he didn’t vote against Lynch on purpose, to show that cloture votes are the REAL votes, and to bring attention to them, as he did with the Obamacare/Shutown cloture vote.
That's part of why folks are trying to get rid of him next time around.
/johnny
Maybe we can pull together and provide some out-of-State support for the conservative candidate and gain another inch.
I sure hope it’s NOT Charlie Crist,
Is it agreed then, that his senate seat is now officially a “Latino seat”?
I don't Suntan Charlie could win a dogcatcher seat in Florida...
The man has no principles...not even bad ones...
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