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The "establishment" needs to wake up and look for ways to solve the immigration problem instead of avoiding it. It's time to face the facts, the electorate is changing.
1 posted on 05/15/2012 6:48:33 AM PDT by SmileRight
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PALIN 2016


2 posted on 05/15/2012 6:52:47 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Vote for the straight guy.)
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Its time to end this two faced conversation about “race?”


3 posted on 05/15/2012 6:54:18 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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The question actually resolves to whether the latest wave of immigrants plans on becoming integrated into the existing population and generating the same or similar levels of productivity or if they plan on being perpetual free riders.

If the former, then I would agree that Marco Rubio is emblematic of exactly the kind of ethnic person we should support (I would no matter his ethnicity, he seems to be an upright man independent of the local source of his bloodline). If the latter, then we may as well fragment now and minimize the pain.


4 posted on 05/15/2012 6:55:30 AM PDT by BelegStrongbow (St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us!)
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I automatically assume anyone calling themselves republican peddling the idea that groveling before any specific constituency is full of sh*t.

Pandering, especially to ethnic groups, is exactly what is dividing and destroying this country.

5 posted on 05/15/2012 6:56:17 AM PDT by skeeter
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c’mon folks! get real. the VP slot is nothing more than a sop thrown to keep the conservatives on the reservation. think of this position as ‘our biden’. it’s useless.
it’s high time to break away. the GOP establishment has lost its way and doesn’t want to find it. time to move on...


6 posted on 05/15/2012 6:57:12 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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If appealing to minorities means special hand-outs, affirmative action and political correctness then I am afraid that we need to find another way to ‘solve the immigration problem’.


7 posted on 05/15/2012 6:58:18 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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Any GOP establishment types who fancy Rubio for VP or even pres need to read my tagline: I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.

Rubio is ineligible for the presidency, as is Obama.

8 posted on 05/15/2012 7:03:12 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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The immigration problem is that we are taking too many, 1.2 million a year, and most are poor, uneducated, and unskilled. They are adding to a permanent underclass in this country and will vote Democrat.

The U.S. adds one international migrant (net) every 36 seconds. Immigrants account for one in 8 U.S. residents, the highest level in more than 90 years. In 1970 it was one in 21; in 1980 it was one in 16; and in 1990 it was one in 13. In a decade, it will be one in 7, the highest it has been in our history. And by 2050, one in 5 residents of the U.S. will be foreign-born.

Currently, 1.6 million legal and illegal immigrants settle in the country each year; 350,000 immigrants leave each year, resulting in a net immigration of 1.25 million. Since 1970, the U.S. population has increased from 203 million to 310 million, i.e., over 100 million. In the next 40 years, the population will increase by an additional 130 million to 440 million. Three-quarters of the increase in our population since 1970 and the projected increase will be the result of immigration. The U.S., the world’s third most populous nation, has the highest annual rate of population growth of any developed country in the world, i.e., 0.963% (2011 estimate,) principally due to immigration.

87 percent of the 1.2 million legal immigrants entering annually are minorities as defined by the U.S. Government and almost all of the illegal aliens are minorities. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under in the U.S. will be classified as minorities and by 2039, half of the residents of this country will be minorities. Generally, immigrants and minorities vote predominantly for the Democrat Party. Hence, Democrats view immigration as a never-ending source of voters that will make them the permanent majority party.

Since the 1965 Immigration Act, our pro-population growth immigration policies have fueled major demographic changes in a very short period of time. In 1970, non-Hispanic whites comprised 89 percent of the population; today they are 66 percent; and by 2039, they will be 50 percent. The Democrats, under the banner of multiculturalism and diversity, have forged a political coalition that depends on individuals coalescing around racial and ethnic identities rather than the issues. The continuing and increasing flow of minority immigrants, mostly poor and uneducated, provides a natural constituency for the Democrats, which see them as their principal source of political power.

10 posted on 05/15/2012 7:06:32 AM PDT by kabar
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Exactly what does Rubio have to offer? That he originally sounded like a Conservative, but seems to have changed his mind after the Right fawned all over him without vetting him? He has as much “experience” as Obama had when he was put in the WH.


17 posted on 05/15/2012 7:16:45 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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How the heck do we keep winning elections? We’ve won most everything possible over the past 28 months.

We win them by selling our principles and pulling people to our views. The latino population is not the black population. It is diverse and can be won over.

Rubio as VP is not the only way to accomplish this. In fact, attaching Rubio to a candidate like Romney may ultimately do more harm than good. Rubio can stand on his own w/o coat tales. A Rubio keynote address at the convention would be a launching pad possibly even beyond VP. That’s how Clinton and Obama got their start into presidential politics...as well as Mario Cuomo before that.


18 posted on 05/15/2012 7:16:45 AM PDT by ilgipper
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Skin tone is not a conservative value. I think you need to talk to the Demonic Party about that.


19 posted on 05/15/2012 7:19:15 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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***The Republican Party faces a threat to its existence. It’s not an ideological threat, but a demographic and mathematical one.***

I disagree. The Republican party’s woes are rooted in ideology coupled with a severe lack of cajones.

This race BS really needs to stop. Fact is people all around the world want to come here because of TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES, namely, freedom, liberty, rule of law, a market economy, rights that come from God and not man or woman.

But since the GOP doesn’t have the guts to stand up for these principles, their days are numbered.


20 posted on 05/15/2012 7:22:25 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Forget the GOP and build the Constitution Party, because the status quo is no longer the way to go.)
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Birthers in 3-—2-—


21 posted on 05/15/2012 7:22:32 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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Every single choice for VP is a senator that will reduce the nubmer of republicans in control or if repalced will be by a “moderate” like Kasich. Leave the good senators alone and work on someone thatcan create other values - like Christie who is be best attack spokeman for balanced budget and fighting unions in government.


22 posted on 05/15/2012 7:23:44 AM PDT by q_an_a (the more laws the less justice)
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America needs Marco Rubio - or somebody like him. And it has nothing at all to do with his ethnic background.

Conservatism wins, every time it is offered. The problem is, in many venues we have not been offered a conservative alternative for quite some time now. When the real thing is offered, either it ends up being co-opted or corrupted before it has had a chance to prove itself, or it goes on to success, surpassing all expectations and shifting the paradigm. Then, for at least a brief while, the general public gets to enjoy a true renaissance and genuine prosperity, until the internal contradictions that arise from being fully satisfied again brew boredom, discontent, and some nagging desire for “change”.


24 posted on 05/15/2012 7:25:36 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fear and intimidation work. At least on the short term.)
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Rubio brings the following to the ticket:

Swing State = Florida
True Conservative Values
Hispanic vote
Youth, intelligence, and an ability to articulate a plan.
An Illegal Immigration plan slightly more sophisticated than “ship ‘em all back”.


27 posted on 05/15/2012 7:37:59 AM PDT by G Larry (Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding)
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“GOP needs Marco Rubio to ward off extinction”

GOP + Marco Rubio = extinction.

What did P.T. Barnum say?


32 posted on 05/15/2012 7:58:17 AM PDT by Road Glide
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Battered Spouse Syndrome is a terrible thing. Advocating it politically is not good either.


34 posted on 05/15/2012 8:04:25 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Obama vs. Romney: Zero x Zero = Zero.)
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Take it to the bank!

Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell will be the VP pick.

Memorize the spelling NOW. So I won't have to keep correcting all of you as I had to with Michele Bachmann.

39 posted on 05/15/2012 8:23:06 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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Rubio is a (partial) first term Senator, inexperienced, ineligible, minority.

HELLO???????????????????????????????????


44 posted on 05/15/2012 8:28:46 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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