Posted on 11/15/2011 8:35:38 AM PST by wolfcreek
WASHINGTON — With growing signs that Hispanic voters are turned off to GOP positions on immigration, Sen. Marco Rubio is trying to use his national profile to deliver a message to his party: Tone it down.
"The Republican Party should not be labeled as the anti-illegal immigration party. Republicans need to be the pro-legal immigration party," the Florida lawmaker said Monday on Fox News.
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Rubio is a Bush protegee.
That told me all I needed to know.
It wouldn’t be *racism*, they are the same race as us. (assuming you are White) Xenophobic, nativist, maybe but lets be pragmatic here and deal with the situation at hand.
You still didn’t explain why you think the illegals would control 50 congressional districts. [you’ve repeated that statement numerous times without elaborating]
“You’re talking about somebody’s mothers and grandmothers and brothers and sister, “ Rubio... said in Dallas”.
Aaaaghhhh! I am just screaming at my computer screen right now. How about American Mothers, Grandmothers, Brothers and Sisters! What about all of the real Americans lost each year to illegals raping, murdering, drunk driving etc... What about the American prisons forced to pay for them, the schools that are just drowning in them, the hospitals losing their shirts over them? I am just so sick and tired of being called heartless and insensitive over a cancer... a disease that just floods into this Country. Bite me, Rubio!
Conservative Position:
PRO LEGAL IMMIGRATION
ANTI ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION
Billiant
Needs to be “Shouted from the mountain tops” and by every single GOP Candidate No matter if they are running for Senate, House, Governor, Mayor, state senate, state house, President, City Councilor, Judge, etc.....
THIS IS THE CONSERVATIVE POSITION, WE ARE A PRO LEGAL IMMIGRANT PARTY, WE BELIEVE IN THE RULE OF LAW!!!
YOU BREAK THE LAW, YOU PAY THE CONSEQUENCES!
Agreed. However, Republicans haven’t done themselves any favors by not fighting back and uniting against illegal immigration and try to pass laws preventing illegals from being eligible to receive federal benefits and attending public schools.
Just consider me an American who has no use for treasonous scum when I don’t bother to answer your cowardly questions.
You just don’t want to admit you’re FOS.
WoWsers! Damn nice rant!
Make that two of us. Bite me Rubio!
“If we don’t give them amnesty, we will lose the Hispanic vote. /s”
How can you lose something that you never had in the first place?
One that sticks with me is a 14 year old Kalamazoo Michigan boy who was walking to his bus stop when he was struck and dragged by an illegal fleeing police in a stolen car.
It didn’t get a lot of media play because it happened within 48 hours of 4 children being killed by an illegal in Minnesota which did make national news.
Why? If someone breaks into my house, my first step isn't to go deadbolt the front door.
Yes, but, you will fix the window or door to prevent the next break-in.
This is total BS. Besides, I have seen polls where majority of latinos opposes illegal immigration so the idea that latinos are pro-illegal is likely not true.
If large part of majority would think that murdering annoying neigbor is ok, this does not mean that GOP should embrace it. Instead, it means GOP should educate and argue why it is bad.
Likewise for illegal immigration. GOP should explain clearly why it is bad and explain the true cost (financial cost and daily murders and loss of life due to DWIs)
“The Republican Party should not be labeled as the anti-illegal immigration party.”
No, genius, Republicans would never want to be known as people who want to enforce our laws.
This guy is clearly not ready for prime time.
I had heard when he was in the Florida House he did what he could to sidetrack immigration legislation. I thought having won a Senate seat he would try to get more in tune with the rest of the country. I guess he just doesn’t have a “heart” for non-hispanics who favor the rule of law and lower immigration levels.
If guys like this and Ricardo Perry are the future of the Republican Party, it’s toast as far as I’m concerned. They’ll just have to replace my vote with an illegal’s.
After I get rid of the guys currently stealing my TV. Better yet, make sure that the bad guys realize there isn't any way they are going to be getting any TVs or computers from this house, and the door can remain wide open while the bad guys walk out, seeing no loot to steal. I'm all about securing the borders, but saying, "secure the borders first" is D.C. speak for "ignore the folks that are here illegally."
Marco is stick on stupid, like McCain and Perry.
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