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.
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
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.
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.
He’s still got Hugh Hewett.
Contact Marco Rubio, let him know what you think. Let your language be civil but strong. You may not be from Florida but you can let him know any future presidential aspirations, we will aggressively campaign against him.
Freepers can make a tremendous impact!
http://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-senator-rubio?p=Contact
I voted for this guy based on his being against amnesty primarily, I like much of his other rhetoric as well. As far as I am concerned he is a traitor.
Try this on for size...substitute the name Ronald Reagan... make him a former union leader (SAG/AFTRA), radio commentator/actor, FDR democrat... and...Irish American politician. Then, compare the ideas and actions of these two- and you will find Reagan’s immigration policy of 1986.
Link:http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Immigration.htm
Substitute the name for Rubio (who has NONE of those histories, but is the son of emigres of a Cuban communist dictatorship, and who values freedom above all else). What you come up with in anti-Rubio anti-Cruz is generational dislike of immigrants, any of them. Perhaps more palatable as “Latino” (which is a farce of description) because he/they are descendents of white Spanish colonials, and not indios.
After how many generations, a Civil War and Tammany Hall politics (and lest we forget, the Kennedys), were Irish Americans allowed into the arena? And why?—one would be blind to ignore cutting out the blacks in dem and rino politics, at the interface to the servant class and local govt between them and the elite establishment.
Business (not BIG business, small business) understands Rubio and Cruz because in the center of this, we are fighting liberal corporatist socialist, statist globalism that seeks to enslave us all- regardless of our background. This is not to say that ANY DC newcomer pol will not be corrupted by the concentration of power and the ability to retire young with millions (on our dime).
It is worth noting the similarities of the immigration policies of Reagan to the Rubio-Ryan.
Cruz, Rubio, whoever. What do they plan to do as leader of the country?
I didn’t think it was possible to lose Kristol.
I fully expect the Gangsters to ram this through anyway.