Posted on 02/04/2013 9:49:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
He's already being treated like the 2016 GOP presidential front-runner, and now there is another reason Republicans are excitedly buzzing about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio: He alone would reverse the party's slide among Hispanic voters.
A new nationwide poll from JZ Analytics found that Rubio would get 48 percent of the Hispanic vote, about twice what Mitt Romney won in 2012. Republican strategist told Secrets that a win among Latino voters that big would assure Rubio the presidency, since he would also likely keep the regular GOP base.
"If he does that good, then he's the next president," said a senior GOP official. "It makes him The Man, I guess," added the official.
The poll, provided to Secrets, did not indicate why Hispanics like Rubio, other than his story growing up in Florida as a child of Cuban parents is well known. He has also joined the bipartisan Senate effort to reform immigration.
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This dead argument offends our Constitution every time it is repeated. Repeating a lie often does NOT make it the truth.
It is not a legal question for judicial usurpers to dictate definition upon their political agendas. It is a Constitutional question. The American people, NOT the Supreme Court, are the final arbiters of what is or is not constitutional. Nobody above a 3rd grade reading level needs a lawyer to explain the true meaning of three simple words, Natural Born Citizen.
While it is true that our Judicial System was patterned after British Common Law and British court systems, it is FALSE to state that our Declaration, Constitution, Bill of Rights and system of self-governance were based upon British Common Law. Our Founders placed ALL faith in the people, not government or the courts, which they had seen corrupted from top to bottom in England. They entrusted ALL of our fundamental rights as “Endowed by our Creator” under Natural Law or the Laws of Nature, NOT British Common Law, which they had just separated from in the American Revolution.
I support Rubio except his amnesty and grouping mexicans in with real Latinos.
We don’t even know who the 2016 candidates will be, and already some of you are fighting to promote liberalism and to marginalize conservative influence on the choices.
Four years out, and you are already fighting to create a permanent shift to Romney like candidates.
Turning over the highest position in the land to someone who is not the Posterity of We the People would not be an act that secures liberty.
-PJ
Besides, amnesty is a poisoned chalice. What good is it to win an election and then be locked out for decades afterwards? Whatever happened to long term thinking? The big problem is that Hispanics are, on average, much dumber (meaning have lower IQ's) than the Southern and Eastern Europeans who came in the late 19th and early 20th century. And yet that earlier wave of immigration led to Democratic dominance for most of the last 100 years.
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
He’s not conservative on immigration—What he’s pushing is amnesty, pure and simple. That’s the tip of the iceberg. The longer he’s in DC, and influenced by the likes of McCain and Graham, the more he’ll “grow” in office.
Consequently, conservatives are wrongly expecting a conservative president to exercise constitutonally nonexistant federal government powers to fix the nation's problems as much as the Democrats have exercised constitutionally nonexistant powers to screw the nation up by chasing their socialistic fantasies.
Lot's of times I think that we'll never restore the constitutonal republic.
Also, while the Democrats wrongly ignored major constitutional problems with Obama's citizenship requirements to be president, the question is will they attack Rubio?
Is Marco Rubio Qualified to Be President… And Do You Have to Qualify for President to be VP
Or will Obama's ignored citizenship problems give Republicans a license to likewise ignore possible problems with Rubio's citizenship qualifications to be pesident.
What a mess! :^(
“The precedent is now set. One just doesn’t have to be NBC to be president and I guess we should all give up on the constitution. It just doesn’t matter anymore anyhow.”
What difference does it make?
If only!
Mr (Ms) ansel 12.
You’re an idiot.
Believe me. I did not vote for Obama.
“People like you”?
Go to H*ll.
That may be his voting record, but what legislation has he authored that makes him a significant legislator? He has been in the Senate for two years and has a thin resume.
That’s nice. However, I expect him to vote like that! It is revolting when a Republican decides to heave principle to the wind and vote with the rats on anything, and he has done as I would expect a Republican to do, and not a RINO.
Where I have a very large problem is his sudden love for McCain’s gang and his push for Amnesty. For, by joining McCain, Ghrahamnesty, Schumer and the other Amnesty Gang, he has undone all the good work and loyalty he had with many people. People like me, to whom Amnesty is a defining position.
By standing up with such persons, Rubio has forfeited my support.
The hypothetical “What if he is the nominee in ‘16?” is still clear: I will vote against whoever the rats put up. Even if it is Rubio, for any rat is incalculably worse than even the weakest-kneed RINO. What I will do is work against such candidates in the Primaries.
Rubio wants to pass amnesty, guaranteeing the electoral demise of Conservatism in America, and you are worried about what pretty speeches he gives about the issues?
Many Hispanics
Are “Dependency Voters”
Not “Values Voters”
Unless Rubio promises to keep the gravy train hustling down the tracks, delivering free gummint goodies to an ever-growing immigrant dependency class, he will never come close to 48% of the Hispanic vote.
They know which side their bread is buttered on...
Rubio is a million times better than Romney and McLame. Still not perfect though.
“Heck, he should have skipped senator and run directly for president last time around.”
Sure, why not. I mean, he skipped actually accomplishing anything in life and went straight into politics out of college.
I see what you did there - very clever!! That thought sends shudders up my spine but I don’t know how it can get any worse do you ?
“if any candidate deviates in any small detail from their “received wisdom”, will not vote for him or her.”
We’re not talking “small details” here. We’re talking about the fact that we haven’t had a conservative candidate in 28 years from the so-called conservative party. That’s not nit-picking.
I suppose they're wondering why black voters like Obama, too.
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