New wave crashes down on Rubio after Palin’s ‘flip-flop’ tweet

BizPac Review ^ | June 24, 2013 | Tom Tillison

[2ndDivisionVet]

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio understood he was taking considerable risk by putting his name on the immigration reform bill currently being crafted by the so-called “Gang of Eight.”

He expected to alienate some conservatives, but did he anticipate Sarah Palin to be among them?

The former Republican governor of Alaska took to Twitter on Sunday to call Rubio out for his “flip-flop” on immigration reform.

Sarah Palin ✔ @SarahPalinUSA

Politicians wonder why we can't trust them? Campaign flip-flops like this and carve-out bribes in the Amnesty... http://fb.me/2IsL1uspC

11:30 AM - 23 Jun 2013

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As noted by Twitchy, Palin’s tweet links to a story from TownHall.com detailing Rubio’s “flip-flop” over amnesty for illegal immigrants, based on comments — see video below — he made while campaigning for his current seat:

"During a debate with opponents Rep. Kendrick Meek and Gov. Charlie Crist, candidate Rubio argued that giving illegal immigrants an “earned path to citizenship,” which Crist, Sen. John McCain and former President George W. Bush had advocated, is basically amnesty.

Rubio, who won that 2010 election, is now the leading Republican in the U.S. Congress pushing for illegal aliens to be given the earned path to citizenship that he himself insisted was “code for amnesty” only three years ago."(continued)

[MarkRegal05]

Oh, I know in my heart of hearts that you’re right. It’s just nice to daydream, hehe..

[COBOL2Java]

Rubio is finished with respect to any national aspirations.

Don't count him out. The GOP-e love him, and if he's got enough crony capitalistic bucks in his account, Karl Rove will, too.

[Rove after Rubio's consulting check clears] "He's perfect!"

[Moonman62]

What did Senator Rubio get?

I have a new theory that he'll be adopted by Jeb Bush so he can be part of the Bush dynasty. He'll become Marco Rubio-Bush and will be next in line to the throne after Jeb.

[OldPossum]

Re 33, great post. It summarizes everything of importance in this fetid matter.

[ballplayer]

I’m.with you on the daydream,seems it’s all that’s left.

[TomGuy]

Palin has side-stepped the immigration issue since 2008. It is good to see her finally taking a strong stand the last couple of weeks.

I wonder how much the Jan Brewer conversion and the Rubio flip-flops influenced her?

Palin still has some fence minding as a result some of her endorsements the last few years.

Better late than never.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I hear a fly buzzing. Anyone else hear it?

[Jack Hydrazine]

But she’s supposed to be...”irrelevant”, right?

[TomGuy]

What Rubio doesn’t seem to understand is he is being used.

When he originally started spouting the Gang of 8 talkingpoints, I wondered whether Rubio was just naive or knew what he was doing.

More recently, I have concluded that he has known from the start what he was doing. The Gang used him, but he was complicit and allowed it. He wasn't naive. He knew exactly what he was doing. It was not him who got used; rather, it was the voters who sent him to the Senate.

[ScottinVA]

Rubio is the gop vrsion of obama - all lies and scams.

Yep... and the astonishing part is how he can lie full-speed in an interview without batting an eye. Too bad he's not using that intellect for purposes that actually serve the long-term needs of the nation. Instead he's bargained the nation's future for some perceived short-term political gain (which won't come to fruition, I might add).

[ScottinVA]

Great insights, with one minor correction. He’ll be running for reelection in 2016. There’ll be a totally different dynamic at work than the mid-term Tea Party fervor that propelled him to victory in 2010. 2016 will be Hillary’s year, especially in a state that is turning blue. Whether he survives the primary that year isn’t so much the issue as the general election. He very likely will be defeated.. rather soundly .. by a liberal dem.

[Soul of the South]

“Whether he survives the primary that year isn’t so much the issue as the general election. He very likely will be defeated.. rather soundly .. by a liberal dem.”

It is possible that in order to survive he’ll pull a Charlie Crist. When it is clear the Republicans voters won’t come out to reelect him to the Senate, and the Republican establishment declines to give him a spot on the national ticket, he can declare the Republican party doesn’t care about minorities and jump to Democrat side. It would be a huge PR bonanza for the Democrats in 2016.

Perhaps this is has been the plan all along. Could Rubio be a Trojan horse hispanic star predestined to switch sides at exactly the right moment? Time will tell.

[zeugma]

Who is this Rubio you speak of?

Someone who's pretty sure that if he carries their water on this and other things, the establishment will make him the nominee in 2016. The game is completely rigged. Anyone paying attention would have recognised that by now.

[RedMDer]

Back stabber Rubio gets his come uppance.

[Shery]

I already posted on his facebook page to not bother running for president in 2016, that I will do everything I can to oppose his success and that I will never trust him again.

[Jane Long]

I wonder what Senator Rubio got out of this deal to buy his vote.
Only Rove and or Soros know for sure.

I find it very creepy that The Rube's Chief of Staff is a former Soros associate.

[jonrick46]

Thanks for taking the time to write a spot on post.

[editor-surveyor]

“Up Your A$$, America!” -Rubio’s New Campaign Slogan.”

[editor-surveyor]

>> “I wonder what Senator Rubio got out of this deal to buy his vote” <<

.
Most likely, silence regarding some presently undisclosed misdeeds.

He got ‘Boehnered.’

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Rubio and Paul are now out of the running for the presidency. Who would have guessed?