Posted on 08/30/2012 4:05:34 PM PDT by GOPinCa
Here are the remarks Marco Rubio plans to deliver this evening at the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida: In 1980, I watched my first Republican Convention with my grandfather.
He was born to a farming family in rural Cuba. Childhood polio left him permanently disabled.
Because he couldn’t work the farm, his family sent him to school, and he became the only one in the family who could read.
As a boy, I would sit on our porch and listen to his stories about history, politics and baseball while he puffed on one of his three daily Padron cigars.
I don’t recall everything we talked about, but the one thing I remember, is the one thing he wanted me to never forget. The dreams he had when he was young became impossible to achieve.
But because I was an American, there was no limit to how far I could go.
For those of us who were born and raised in this country, it’s easy to forget how special America is. But my grandfather understood how different America is from the rest of world.
Tonight, you’ll hear from another man who understands what makes America exceptional.
Mitt Romney knows America’s prosperity didn’t happen because our government simply spent more. It happened because our people used their own money to open a business.
And when they succeed, they hire more people, who then invest or spend their money in the economy, helping others start a business and create jobs.
Mitt Romney’s success in business is well known. But he’s more than that.
He’s a devoted husband, father, and grandfather. A generous member of his community and church.
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
I have become incredibly dubious about Rubio of late. He came out to embrace internationalism and multilateralism at the Brookings Institution, which rates right up there with drinking the blood of Dracula for being a bad thing.
High praise as well from the Council on Foreign Relations, a nest of vipers if there ever was one.
Their opinion?: “Rubio’s Global Vision: A Lot Like Obama’s”
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/events/2012/4/25%20rubio/20120425_rubio
As far as I’m concerned, this was a gaffe several times worse than Akin’s.
How do you define internationalism and multilateralism?
Nope
Plus him being pro-amnesty.
I’m just glad he’s not the VP pick.
Plus him being pro-amnesty.
I’m just glad he’s not the VP pick.
Internationalism has two faces.
Its pleasant face emphasizes mutual cooperation, treaties and standards of mutual benefit, an orderly flow of trade, and cooperation instead of conflict.
However, its other face is vile. Based on the idea that nations, languages, cultures and ethnic groups are obsolete, and should be normalized into administrative districts within trading blocs and world government. That is, nations should just be districts with open borders, and the rest should be homogenized with immigration until they cease to exist.
Its overriding impulse is the belief that human differences are responsible for war, so that if such differences are systematically erased, generic humanity will be at ease under a single government.
The primary political organization hoping to achieve this is the international socialist movement, with entire leftist political parties around the world as its membership. It has grown to include more than 150 member parties from more than 100 countries. Its members have governed in many countries including most of Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_international
Two sitting justices on the Supreme Court of the United States have embraced the idea that federal court decisions should include foreign legal ideas, but couched in American terms, using our judicial precedents.
Many members of congress, mostly Democrats but including some Republicans, have embraced some of the ideas of internationalism. George W. Bush was a firm believer in much of it, and made several strong, if ineffective efforts on its behalf. Bill Clinton also believed in it.
The bottom line is that it is anti-American, in any form, and while those who embrace it may seek to pursue its pleasant face, the two faces are inexorably linked.
It is a deal with the devil himself.
And he’s pro-amnesty.
Rubio’s gaffe...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqrYc7CVTzg
“Let’s make sure they write that we did our part.
That we chose more government instead of more freedom.”
Wonder if he knows yet he got it backwards?
No one noticed in the live thread.
You hear what you want to hear.
Reagan gave 8 million amnesty!!! I like Reagan Like Rubio don’t like amnesty!
Based on the idea that nations, languages, cultures and ethnic groups are obsolete, and should be normalized into administrative districts within trading blocs and world government.
...human differences are responsible for war, so that if such differences are systematically erased, generic humanity will be at ease under a single government.
The primary political organization hoping to achieve this (peace) is the international socialist movement...
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Marco Rubio absolutely does NOT ascribe to any of this type of thinking.
It was a misspeak....pure and simple. You would know that if you’ve read things he’s written or listened to a number of his speeches.
The only 100% perfect human that walked (or ever WILL walk) this earth was Jesus...Who also happened to be God.
Would you think that George W. Bush does?
While he did not advertise it much, he pushed behind the scenes for a North American Free Trade Zone, roughly based on the European Common Market. This would eventually expand to all the Americas, the FTAA.
He also supported the Plan Puebla Panama, Mexican President Vincente Fox’s idea to depopulate southern Mexico (sending the people living there North in a massive illegal immigration invasion, which caused a huge surge in the number of illegals entering the US), and to turn southern Mexico into the North and central American shipping, air transport, and rail nexus, leading to a gigantic transport corridor bisecting the US to Canada. (The Texans fought that corridor to a standstill. And the rest of the PPP has pretty much ground to a halt. Only the ethnic cleansing part worked.)
And despite repeated and firm denials, Bush went so far as to support preliminary analysis of the creation of a unified currency, the Amero, which would replace the US and Canadian dollar and the Mexico New Peso.
Mind you, this was at a time when he pushed through the creation of America as police state, based on 9-11, with vast numbers of “anti-terrorism” laws that are *exclusively* used against Americans that have nothing to do with terrorism.
This is what “internationalism” offers us. So pardon me if I am apprehensive when a Republican goes to the Brookings Institution, a hive of anti-Americanism. I would be about as concerned if he had addressed the Communist Youth League, the Trilateral Commission, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or other such collective of scoundrels.
If Marco Rubio has *any* internationalist leanings, it should disqualify him for elective office. Internationalists do no brag about their tendencies, they work hard for them behind the scenes, in impressive bipartisan conspiracies, none of which is for America’s benefit.
It does not matter if they tout internationalism’s “nice face”. It is still a bargain with the devil against our nation and our way of life.
If Marco Rubio has *any* internationalist leanings, it should disqualify him for elective office.
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According to your own definition...you have nothing to worry about in this regard with Senator Rubio.
Would you think that George W. Bush does?
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The topic is Marco Rubio.
I listened for about 5 minutes when that pandering, michelle bachmann bashing, pandering little snit Mario Rubio took the stage, and then I had to leave the room. And to think at one point, some conservatives thought he was one of us. He will be a stellar protege for Juan McQueeg & Mitt Willard. Mario is definitely part of the up & coming GOP-e crowd. I hope he gets Tea-Partied & thrown out for good in his next election!
I think Rubio said that we need to close the borders but we need to make a path for the illegals to get citizenship. I don’t think he wants blanket amnesty!
Three million. And only after he'd struck a "deal" with the congress for better border security. The dems screwed him badly on that one.
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