[vmivol00]

...Rubio to give the pro-amnesty, empty suit, GOP capitulation.

[svcw]

Rand Paul is giving many great speeches but I wonder will he fall into his father’s ignorant blather?
I like Rubio, he makes cogent and reasoned arguments, even though I may not agree with everything.

[originalbuckeye]

I hope they are not on at the same time. I would really like to hear both speeches. While I believe I am more Conservative than Rubio is sometimes, I acknowledge that, to win the WH, we must appeal to the majority of the middle of the road citizens. Flame away if you must.

[elkfersupper]

Actually, Rand Paul’s speech could be the Republican response, if the Republicans had any gonads.

[MinuteGal]

I hope Rand's announcement will serve to move Rubio's speech more to the right.....in other words keep Rubio on the straight and narrow.

In a way, I'm amused. Marco probably thought HE was speaking for the Tea Party.

Leni

[concerned about politics]

Ben Carson did a fantastic job at the prayer breakfast. He should give the response. In fact, he already did!

He's smarter and braver than anyone the Republicans would put out there. He said in 5 minutes what the Republicans should have been saying for decades.

[Timber Rattler]

It’s about time!

[Georgia Girl 2]

“...Rubio to give the pro-amnesty, empty suit, GOP capitulation”

Yes in Spanish no less. What a tea partier!!! (sarc)

[wildbill]

I wonder if the MSM will cover it? I rather think they will as it could be portrayed as a completely new political party that will split the Republican base and compete with the Republican party in the future. The Dems and the MSM are already trying to split the base. They will love it.

The Republican party rose out of a competition between the radical wing of the Whig party which was vehemently anti-slavery and the regular Whigs who weren’t that hot on the issue. I suppose you’d call them moderates and the WhigE wing.

Eventually the radicals changed enough minds that the Republican Party was born, grew dominant, and the Whig party died within the span of a decade.

Of course, it led to a civil war as the views of the new radical Republican party were completely uncompromising when contrasted with the old Democratic Party.

We certainly may be at a tipping point today. It’s entirely possible that a third party, the Tea Party for want of a better name, could form, crippling the extant Republican party, and resulting in election defeats until a consensus in public opinion is reached.

You can’t move forward until both wings come back together. Third parties come and go. Only once has a third party become dominant and destroyed the old party. It remains to be seen how much damage the Dems can do to the country while we fight among ourselves.

[GOPJ]

...Rubio to give the pro-amnesty, empty suit, GOP capitulation.

BINGO - Rubio will be right there - 'acceptable' to dems - just like McCain, Charlie Crist, and Romney. Yep - the GOP likes to go with 'those who can win...;

[FlyingEagle]

Which one of these two will exhort the people to reinstate the Republic by all means necessary?

Meanwhile the Contitution is a charred pile of ashes in the white house garbage.