Posted on 01/24/2011 8:25:04 AM PST by roses of sharon
I agree. Don’t people here on FR know how to read? He isn’t abandoning the Tea Party. He’s not telling them to get lost. He’s telling them to stay grass roots and not become just another loud-mouth Washington special interest lobby. I guess all that goes right over their head...
I tend to agree with Rubio. If the Tea Party is going to be in DC, it will likely be just as open to special interests and corruption as the R’s and D’s. The Tea Party needs to be kept local to hold elected officials accountable.
That’s the way I read the statement. Misleading headline.
Correct, which is why we have so many Democrats in Washington.
Congratulations. You were post 6 but the first to actually read the article. Posts 1-5 reacted to the CNN headline
Rubio knows what he is doing here...he has been feigning angst over joining the caucus for weeks...he WANTS this news coverage to distance himself from the Tea Party.
He does NOT want bad Tea Party press.
Typical GOPer.
I always find it amusing how many FReepers don’t read the articles, but react entirely to the headlines. Sometimes we come across as knee-jerk reactionaries with the critical thinking ability of kindergartners. LOL!
I also don’t disagree with what he said. . .let’s judge politicians on how they vote and on what legislation they propose. What Rubio said does not make him a RINO yet. RINO’s can’t hide anymore. . .if he goes RINO, don’t worry.. .we’ll see it a mile away. . .keep your RINO gunpowder dry. ..but hold your fire on this one! . . .and let me “apologize” for my uncivil use of gun and gunpowder metaphors.
There are several tea party groups out there. There's about five of them within a twenty minute drive of me, and I'm on the outskirts of Ann Arbor. These are locally based groups of citizens who don't like what's going on.
I care about one thing. Marco Rubio's voting record. No more, no less.
For the record, I hardly ever click on the links. Saves me a lot of grief with malware, spam, and tracking cookies. If someone posts only a snippet of a story, often that’s all I’ll read of it. (I know, copyright laws etc.—but that’s how it is.)
“The freshmen senator who won a three-way race in November against independent Gov. Charlie Crist and Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek, said the power of the Tea Party comes from its “ability to drive the debate and issues from the grassroots up, as opposed to from the politicians down.”
Tell me what he said was wrong.
Senator, we put you in ... we can always put in someone else.
Exactly. We should be heaping scorn upon the CNN headline writer, not Marco Rubio.
Strange to see anyone here agree that the Tea Party should stay out of DC, (which is opposite of our objective).
Very telling.
I don’t either.
“If all of a sudden being in the Tea Party is not something that is happening in Main Street, but rather something that’s happening in Washington D.C., the ‘Tea Party’ all of the sudden becomes some sort of movement run by politicians,” Rubio said.”
I don’t get it. Is Rubio stating that DeMint, Paul and Lee are your normal run of the mill DC Politicos. Seems to me the intent of this grassroots movement was to impact the way things are done in DC and in order to accomplish that it wouldn’t be a bad idea for the TP members to caucus.
Right now I worry more about Rubio than I do those other three.
I’ve learned in life that headline-reading and blowhardism tend to run in pairs.
If he indeed told the Tea Party to get lost (some here say that is not so), then he needs to re-think that. It makes it look like he doesn’t care a bit about what the Tea Partiers stand for, even though they helped him get to where he is.
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