Posted on 04/16/2015 8:55:47 PM PDT by entropy12
And if there is one candidate who is the anti-Hillary, it is Marco Rubio. Let me list the reasons.
Youth
This is the most obvious contrast — one that Rubio is pushing to the hilt. Rubio is young. Clinton is not. At CPAC, when asked to say the first word that came to mind when he thought of Clinton, he said, "Yesterday."
Historic-ness
You can already hear the left-wing inevitability noise machine: Oh, how historic it would be to elect the first female president! But of course, there is also something historic about Rubio's candidacy: he would be the first Latino president of the United States.
Wealth
Clinton is running a populist campaign. She is also quite rich. She got rich through — is there a polite way to say this? — her husband's post-presidential influence-peddling.
Policy
Republican Party's single biggest predicament is that it is perceived as no longer caring about the concerns of the middle class. In this respect, Rubio is exactly the sort of candidate the party needs: a true conservative who nonetheless understands the GOP's greatest weakness. His ambitious reforms — his tax plan and its child tax credit, his wage subsidies plan, his proposals for higher education — are all aimed squarely at this problem, as is his opportunity rhetoric. On both the politics and the merits, this is the right response.
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I haven’t settled on a candidate, though I’ve been leaning towards Walker and still really like Bobby Jindal. For the most part, right now I’m just pleased and genuinely grateful for all the solid candidates we have to choose from this time. IMHO, every one of the frontrunners - except Jeb - represents a significantly better, stronger choice than Romney was in 2012. These young guns know how to handle the media, and will surely cut into the traditional Democratic edge in online image marketing and PR.
When Rubio proposed amnesty that would funnel millions of taxdollar to groups like La Raza and LULAC he isn’t going to be on any list of mine
Mine too
My list is Cruz
The Week
What is it anyway?
Even at 500% the number pales in comparison to thd all-out amnesty Marxo Rubio proposed
Which means the left will freak out, and thats always fun
HAHA, I don’t even have to read the comments.
Well, most all candidates pick a VP only after winning the nomination, so it’s possible, you may be waiting for a long, long, long, time.
Yup.. he is the RINO equivalent of Hillary.
Clinton had a real job: defending criminals.
Rubio has never had a real job.
Rubio doesnt care about the middle class.
He cares about the Bush elite and Hispanic consultant & media class elite like the hispanic Anderson Cooper.
I think it's been obvious for at least a couple of years now, that Rubio sold his soul, and became a willing pawn of the power brokers and Washington elites.
His participation in the Gang of 8 is the clearest evidence of that, and there's been much other evidence, since.
I vote yours the best post in this thread.
That's the same sort of 'thinking' that lost the last two presidential elections for us.
We're never going to win until we all agree to support the best conservative leader - PERIOD. All the losing posers and wannabees will fall by the wayside if we coalesce around the best man for the job early in the process, and Do Not Switch Horses.
Rubio was speaker of house in Florida legislature for 7 years. That means he is a seasoned politician, and well versed in wheeling and dealing.
I never thought Romney was most likely to win. In my opinion Herman Cain would have been a tough opponent to Barack Obama. An adult versus a juvenile. A successful businessman versus a community organizer.
After Cain was swift boated with bimbo eruptions from Chicago (shhh Chicago mafia is alive and well) I thought Newt would be best in debates with Obama.
In 2016, any one of Cruz, Walker, Jindal, Rubio, or Paul will be all tough against Hillary in debates. Things are looking up.
Uh-huh. And John Hussein Boehner is Speaker of the U.S. House. He's also a seasoned politician who's well versed in wheeling and dealing. Like a Mob boss.
Apparently, Rubio's experience in the Florida House merely readied him to become a back-stabbing politician on the national level. From the Farm League to the Big Leagues.
Absolutely, although we should wait until first 6 primary results are out. That will be a excellent indicator of who is connecting with voters and winning. There will be 44 more primaries left to beat Bush & Christy & Rubio.
You talk about this as though you’re talking about sports. ‘Winning’ seems to be your primary objective here.
What’s the point of ‘winning’, if your candidate is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal with an R velcroed to his sleeve? Do you really think such a person is going to govern much differently than any Democrat?
At least two of the names on your list (Rubio and Paul) should be crossed off, due to the fact that both have already joined the Dark Side in Washington. Electing either of them would be almost as bad as electing the Dem.
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