Posted on 01/27/2013 3:24:02 PM PST by drewh
Rubio staked his marker in the education-reform debate last week when he delivered a speech at the Chamber of Commerce calling for policy changes to improve the skills of the American workforce.
Education is not a high-profile topic in Washington, but some Republicans see it, along with immigration reform, as crucial to winning a key part of the electorate: women voters.
We need a champion in both areas. We lost the last election at the PTA meeting and the Hispanic chamber of commerce. Jeb Bush wins elections at the PTA meeting and Hispanic chamber, said Don Gaetz, president of the Florida Senate and a Bush acolyte.
Gaetz said Rubio would not challenge Bush in the presidential primary.
I dont think so. Marco Rubios political godfather is Jeb Bush. I dont see any way they run against each other for any office, he said.
Bush endorsed Rubio in the 2010 Florida Senate race after his opponent, Charlie Crist, dropped out of the GOP to run as an independent.
Bush presented Rubio with a samurai sword after Rubio became speaker of the Florida House in 2006, a gesture interpreted as passing on the mantle of conservative leadership in the state capitol.
John Weaver, a Republican strategist who worked for McCains 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns, doubts Bush and Rubio will square off against each other in four years.
I dont know if theres rivalry there yet. You have someone who would be the frontrunner in Bush and you have someone who is very ambitious and in his shadow and wanting to position himself for a run if he could, he said. That could cause some friction among staff.
I dont sense a rivalry. If Jeb Bush runs, Marco cant run, he added.
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Am thinking; I will be here; just not at all convinced there will be a 2016 Election - unless Repubs ‘get smart’ and no holding breath on that one; unless a ‘death wish’ intervenes.
Jeb would have to move then. The P and VP can’t both be from the same state. I’m sure they’d find a way, though/ Back in 2000 Cheney set up a residence in WY so he could run with W
I’d be fine with that although Ted was born in Canada so I don’t know if that would be constitutional. Especially after all the furor over Obama for the GOP to nominate someone indisputably born in a foreign country probably wouldn’t go over too well.
I’d go with Palin and NM Gov Susana Martinez. You get the same opening to hispanics, arguably moreso since Martinez is Mexican and Cruz is Cuban and apparently the majority Mexican hispanics don’t necessarily identify with Cubans. No eligibility issues. You’d have executive experience that Cruz lacks.
Cruz to me would be a great choice for the SC, though
If the Repub "powers that be" don't see that, they're dumber than even I thought they were.
OTOH, this could all just be a push by the "media" to get a lame, weak, loser Repub as the candidate for Hitlery to pulverize in 2016.
“Someone please tell me we will have better choices than Rubio-Bush-Christie-etc”
We do. Rand Paul with either Scott Walker or Ken Cuccinelli as VP.
If he can get enough Hispanics to realize that conservative policies will actually help them, he could turn the tide against them voting Dem so much.
Isn’t Rand Paul saddled with some libertopian views? and his crazy dad too could be a hindrance.
Rand Paul is not Ron Paul.
With Republican still talking “Bush”, it tells me there’s no changes coming! Glad I went to “No Party” status 20 years ago! But, they still keep calling wanting money! The just don’t get it!
I don't think anyone named "Bush" can be elected to any national office in the next few decades, and maybe not ever...unless they are obviously not related to the two Bush Presidents.
No he's not Georgia Girl, and he IS a natural born citizen, along with Linda Martinez, Sarah Palin, and most of the others whom we think of as conservative. Never forget it was the Democrats, Obama and McCaskill, who tried but failed to pass Senate Bill 2678 in February of 2008, the Children of Military 5 Families Natural Born Citizen Act, to be able to claim that McCain was a natural born citizen. Nothing about the law has changed since SB 2678 failed. A Supreme Court decision or Constitutional Amendment would be the only way to effect a change, assuming we still pretend to obey the Constitution. Running McCain was a deliberate challenge to our Constitution, and prevented any Republican congressperson from asking about eligibility.
For those low-inforamation voters who still buy the “because it was never defined in the Constitution” line, take a look at the Constitution some time. The Constitution doesn't contain definitions, by design. Language changes over time. To make the Constitution an eternal document, since it is presumed to be a statement of rights granted by god, by nature's law, it must be interpreted in the language and terms as understood by its framers, as explained by Mark Levin in Liberty and Tyranny, p 37, in a letter by Madison.
Yes, Levin won't talk about it. He knows he hasn't the resources to fight charges from a criminal justice department, the same justice department that charged Scooter Libby after having a confession of talks with reporters about Valerie Plame by Richard Armitage in hand, and charged Nathan Deal when Deal had the temerity to ask for some verification of Obama’s eligibility in writing; they dug through old IRS returns and came up with ethics charges, forcing Deal to resign from Congress - he is now Georgia's Governor.
The GOP is crooked enough to take the criticism guaranteed them for throwing a ‘presumed’ election (presumed because they say nothing about the rampant voting fraud which virtually guarantees the numbers, as Stalin said, “To those who count the votes) and get paid by lobbyists who bid for their performances. Rand Paul sounds good to me. His questioning of Hillary and Kerry told us more honestly where he stands than the propaganda from our state-run media.
“We should all get used to saying Madame President because if this is the best the Republicans can do, Hillary is a certainty.”
Hillary would be almost 70 by the time she took office in 2017, and her health isn’t getting any better.
You may indeed be saying “Madame President” — but to Michelle instead!
Neither one of these illegal-lovers belong anywhere near and elected office.
Let’s peer into the future... it’s Bush vs Biden. What do you think people will say? Exactly what they did about Romney. “You have to vote for him! Look at the alternative.”
We are fooling ourselves if we think we actually have a choice. It will be decided for us again.
I’ll write in mickey Mouse before I would vote for Bush or Rubio or any of the other liberal garbage in the US House or Senate.
I understand your sentiment, but you know what is going to happen. It will be deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra said. The primary system is rigged to make sure the Republican establishment gets to decide which squishy RINO is up next.
I’ll be 80 by then and don’t give a damn!!
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