Posted on 05/29/2013 5:56:50 AM PDT by IbJensen
When Lyndon Johnson lost the support of Walter Cronkite for his prosecution of the war in Viet Nam, he was sufficiently impressed that he pulled out of the 1968 presidential election. Recognizing the gravity of this defeat, Johnson said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”
While the squishy “Republicans” at the “Weekly Standard” are in no way as influential as “Uncle Walter” was in 1968, the advice from William Kristol of the Weekly Standard to Marco Rubio to “get out” of this effort to “fix” immigration is nonetheless quite telling.
During a recent interview about the Senate’s efforts to provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, Kristol spoke directly to the Gang of Ocho’s Senator Marco Rubio – a Cuban American from South Florida saying , “He should walk away from it. He should say, ‘I made a good faith effort, but you know what, this is not a piece of legislation [I should support after all].’”
Labeling the Gang of Ocho’s “Schumer/Menendez Amnesty and Democrat Party Registration” legislation a “big government’ bill, Kristol warned Rubio that what he was helping to create is in fact just another bill that will not do what it was intended to do.
In a surprising moment of clarity, Kristol – a RINO in good standing himself – implored Rubio to reconsider his quixotic effort to grant amnesty to those who are here illegally saying, “Think of the trust you have to have in bureaucracy to make all this work. There’ll be certifications and border security, there’ll be tests of whether people paid back taxes. … If you like Obamacare, you should like this immigration bill. And I honestly think conservatives should oppose it on those grounds alone.”
The money quote in this interview came toward its conclusion when Kristol added, “I’m a liberal, as you know, on immigration reform. I was more liberal than you were, I think, in ’06, ’07. I’ve got to say, I couldn’t vote for this bill. I just don’t think it’s good conservative governance, and I don’t think there’s any need to compromise with Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama at this point. There’s no crisis.”
Mister Rubio you have lost “Walter” Kristol. The next move is up to you.
Source:
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=74E27172-F42F-4154-8352-D89D8B984C4B
With the exception of Mr. Cruz, most of these Spanish surnamed politicians are truly posing as Republicans. Calling them Hispanics or Latinos is absolutely ridiculous. They are caucasians of direct (uncontaminated by the aboriginal population of their parent's homeland)decendants of Spanish or Portuguese settlers.
Tacking on a term intended to represent a separate race and voting block here in the melting plot is as stupid as calling Americans who happen to be negroes 'African-American.'
Mrs. JF'nK fits the literal description of African-American.
I disagree.
Rubio is ouir BEST shot in 2016. Cruz is also great, but he is new on the scene and lacks the name recognition of Rubio.
If we are not careful there will be another “bloom” of a half score of conservative Presidential wannabes who will split the conservative votes among themselves and allow another RINO like “Jeb” (Brother of GWB) or Romney to steal the nomination and loose the general election.
When po0litical purity is caried to absurb level, we all loose and NO ONE is idiologically perfect.
Political Posturing is what it is called... when it looks like what you are doing is “posturing” your positions in the hope of being liked, then it reeks of compromise of conviction. Rubio is trying so hard to be liked by those who will never like him, that he is loosing the ones who would like to like him. When you compromise on your convictions, then you become just another fixture in DC, like John McCain.
I once attended a Class “A” minor league baseball game where the opposing pitcher melted down and gave up 8 runs in the 7th. inning.
There was something very sad and poignant about watching a young man’s professional baseball career come crashing down right before my eyes.
I get the same feeling watching Marco Rubio these days.
I’m sick of rubio. F him.
Rubio and Christi have shown us the folly in jumping behind a flash in the pan.
I know watch every roll call vote of the two I am looking at to run in 2014, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul. Roll call votes can be monitored at Thomas.loc.gov no www, just Thomas.loc.gov
BookMark
Thanks FRiend,
Dear Lord, please give us strength.
Tatt
The Rubio experiment is done. He’s a joke. Zero chance of ever being nominated and I would love to see an actual conservative primary him.
So you are saying to nominate a RINO to stop another RINO, and refer to Cruz as lacking name recognition?
I gotta disagree. I was listening to the Dave Glover show in St. Louis, and the host is more libertarian than anything, with frat boy bathroom humor thrown in. And he referred to Cruz as future President Cruz. And Missouri is not exactly Cruz’s district.
Rand Paul has a ton of name recognition, and he has been in Iowa a lot lately.
I say Rand Paul/Cruz for president/vice president.
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I must strongly disagree. I could/would never vote for someone that so little regard for American citizenship that he is willing to give it to people that ignore our laws.
Not to mention if you’ve seen him out on the stump trying to defend this turkey he looks like an absolute sock puppet. He’ll get cut to ribbons by anyone with debate skills.
I think the glib, but dim-witted, Rubio is ALREADY backing away from this latest Amnesty attempt. I noticed that yesterday the voices of he and Paul Ryan had suddenly been replaced on the never ending faux-conservative Amnesty commercials on the Limbaugh & Hannity radio shows by professional voice actors.
As for the 2016 primaries, I’m hoping for a “bloom” of RINOs (Christie, Jeb Bush, etc) and faux conservatives (Rubio) running to split the low-information & primary crossover Democrat vote and a CONSENSUS real conservative (e.g., Cruz) to run from the “right”. The question is, can the conservative Republican potential candidates be smart enough to do that—or will they yet again split the majority conservative vote among many conservatives and conservative poseurs? I hope that potential candidates such as Michele Bachman are smart enough and un-selfish enough to stay out.
He fooled the Tea Party and me, for that matter, once, but he’ll never get away with it again.
Cuban refugees and those born to these refugees after they reach America are a constant source of amazement to me. If they wanted to get away from leftist ideologies why, in God’s name, do they want to perpetuate it here?
Their voting record is better than the negro population, but it’s still well under 50% Conservative.
You are incorrect. Rubio is McLite in a brown wrapper. Any D that runs would hand him his arse because he has demonstrated the will to stab his country in the back and thus has lost the conservative voting base.
I doubt that most conservatives would view Rubio as our best hope in 2016. He is basically as I’ve stated before a feckless political hack with a bad case of overambition. He glommed onto the immigration debate thinking he would ride it into the Whitehouse in 2016.
He has allowed himself to be played by the Democrats to the point that he will be lucky to even win a second term in the Senate much less have any chance to run for the presidency. Marco is not ready for primetime and I doubt he ever will be. Do you really want someone with such poor judgement and very little substance sitting in the Whitehouse? We have that going on right now and its not working out too well.
There will be good people running in 2016. Rand Paul, maybe Ted Cruz and frankly I am hoping that some real grown ups like Jim DeMint, Scott Walker, Ken Cuccineli and Rick Perry decide to run.
“Rubio is our BEST shot in 2016.”
Hey, how about Christie as VP?!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3016355/posts
So WHERE do we go now?? WHo do we back???
We CAN’T repeat our mistakes of the last Presidential election and allow too many conservatives to battle it out in the primaries. If we do, we split our votes and another RINO will get it.
If I am wrong and Rubio is a dud, who do we go with? We need to start working NOW to get that special somebody the recognition and money they will need, vette him or her, bring out anything ther Dems can use against them early and dispose of it.
WHO??
I’m from New Jersey. FORGET CHRISTIE!!!!! HE’s a RINO!!!!
He may be best we can hope for in New Jersey, but New Jersey isn’t America.
Christie is anti-Second Amendment, anti-First Amendment, pro-Muslim, pro-illegal alien, and an obnoxious bully with limited talents. He has done NOTHING - NADA - to improve New Jersey’s abyssmal economic picture.
Rubio didn’t have the political capital he needed to start this fiasco, and now he is ruining the goodwill he had from conservatives. Quit already.
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