Posted on 02/10/2016 9:08:14 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Wednesday on Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom," Rep. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said while Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has "tapped into a legitimate frustration and anger," his opponent Sen. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is the GOP's "best chance to win" in the general election.
When asked about Trump Gowdy said, "He has tapped into a legitimate frustration and anger that I feel in my own district. A lot of us share it. The question is, what do you do with the frustration and anger? What I want to do is win in November. I want to control the executive branch. I want to pick the next Supreme Court justices. I want a foreign policy actually is coherent. So I get the anger. I get frustration. I want to translate that into victory. So in other words, making a point is fine. And the point has been made. I am much more interested in making a difference. The way to make a difference is to win in November. and Marco is our best chance to win."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I keep checking back on Rubio (not that I would ever trust or vote for him, but I keep hoping for some sign that he has learned - nope). He still seems happy with his Gang of Eight Amnesty position. Amnesty would destroy the last hope of recovery for America. Regardless of positions on all other issues, anyone who supports Amnesty is unacceptable - choosing among pro-Amnesty candidates is a debate over how quickly to kill America.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) what a leader. /s
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) what a leader. /s
The ring master in the bengahzi carnival event that went no where, thanks alfalfa
Rubio is an open borders wolf hiding in “conservative” clothing.
Email released by Phyllis Schlafly ..... details Rubio’s record .... what he campaigned on & what he actually did when he got to the Senate ..... excellent summary with links:
Rubio Record (immigration)
http://www.eagleforum.org/immigration/rubio-record.html
From the “CONCLUSION”:
There is no single major distinguishing policy difference between Marco Rubio, John McCain or Lindsey Graham. They have the same trade policy, immigration policy and foreign policy. But on immigration most especially — the issue in which all four have invested the most — there is no daylight separating them.
The difference, then, is one of persona, not policy. And in the arena of immigration, this translates into a vital difference. The biggest change from McCain-Kennedy, which could not get out of the Senate, and the Gang of Eight — which was nursed along by conservative pundits despite being to the left of Kennedy’s bill — was the presence of Rubio. Rubio created the conditions necessary to produce a considerably more open borders bill: conservatives who were invested in the Rubio Brand provided no early pushback but accepted Kennedy’s old talking points, and Rubio gave red state Democrats the political space necessary to support it. This is how it got 68 votes in the Senate.
The stakes of course are raised considerably if Rubio is President or Vice President. Rubio would have a much, much better chance than Obama of getting an open borders bill through Congress — while Boehner could refuse to bring up Obama’s mass immigration/amnesty bill for vote in 2014, Ryan would never refuse Rubio’s bill. Rubio’s presence, as it did with the Gang of Eight, would create the cover for both certain Republicans and all Democrats to get behind a far more open borders plan. Given that nearly every House Democrat sponsored the Gang of Eight House version (including Pelosi and Gutierrez), Ryan would not need to gather that many additional votes (House GOP leaders might have refused Obama’s 2014 request for a vote but they would not refuse President Rubio’s).
All of which adds up to: there is likely no person in the United States of America in a better position to enact mass immigration legislation than a President Rubio — no one who could deliver more votes in both parties for open borders immigration. Senator Rubio is not Main Street’s Obama, he is Wall Street’s Obama: President Obama was a hardcore leftist running as centrist; Senator Rubio is a Wall Street globalist running as a tea party conservative.
Unlike other legislation, the effects of bad immigration policy cannot be repealed. They are forever. The Republican party would never nominate a pro-Obamacare candidate, and it must be an even stronger maxim that it should not nominate any candidate who is committed to a policy of mass immigration. Rubio wrote the Obamacare of immigration policies: a bill that would have eviscerated the middle class, plunged millions into poverty, legalized the most dangerous aliens on the planet, overwhelmed our schools and safety nets, and done irreversible violence to the idea of America as a nation-state. Rubio is the candidate of open borders, Obamatrade and mass immigration, making one last attempt to pull off one big con.
The list of “Republican” disappointments is practically the whole party. Democrats never say that about their “leaders”.
Great line
Are people in Greenville uninformed too?
I could make a fortune selling Marco Rubio lawn jockeys
"Marco Rubio is a legitimate full-throated conservative and a disciple of Ronald Reagan"
By golly he's right. Win in November to make a difference!
Why has no one thought of that before?!?!
Why if in 2014 we had voted in majorities who promised to overturn Obama's disasters and stand up to Dems we would be so much better off.
Hey Trey...been there, done that...got the cowardly jackasses to show for it.
Now go to Myrtle Beach. They have plenty of sand you can pound on there.
...and Gowdy was another in a long line forced out of the GOPe closet by Trump. He does shine bright lights in dark places. Look at the establishment members have been exposed...Kelly, Levin, Kraythammer, Fox News, Tim Scott...on and on. Think what a Trump Presidency would expose. I can’t wait.
Gowdy = disappointment, but what can one expect from Linda’s kin.
Another rino has as much chance of winning as Dole, McCain and Romney.
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