And he underestimated the intelligence and sincerity of Conservatives.
Rubio thought he could baffle conservatives with his B.S. like Obama dazzles liberals with his.
Posted on 08/25/2013 8:27:59 AM PDT by jimbo123
As recently as six months ago, Florida, a state with a poor record for producing presidential candidates, appeared to be striking gold at last.
Former Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio were among the top three or four candidates, sometimes at the very top, in nearly every poll of Republicans on the 2016 presidential nomination. They had starring roles at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa one year ago this week, with Rubio introducing nominee Mitt Romney.
Today, things look different.
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Called a traitor and a “RINO,” or “Republican in name only,” over immigration reform by some of his earliest backers among the tea party movement, Rubio has been using the August recess to mend fences.
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Good.
- Jeb has opened his mouth enough lately to where I think he would be as bad as W.
- Marco has proven that he’s not much of an intellectual heavyweight.
“...appeared to be striking gold at last.”
Fools gold.
Both of the malcontents jumped feet-first on the anti-American immigrant market segment.
Failing utterly to realize, that is exactly the OPPOSITE of what Americans, struggling day to day in a system with ever increasing unemployment, want.
Americans was American jobs. In America.
Stop exporting US jobs. Bring back US jobs, and hire Americans.
Enforce our borders.
Fix unemployment.
Then and only then, after (AFTER) all those things are complete and done.
Then, we can talk about additional immigration.
Not now.
That’s because the very name “Bush” brings back painful memories of a president who while protecting us from terrorism failed miserably at defending himself and us at home from traitors within. He created the foundation for Obama’s election and he created the agency that has become Obama’s own personal army, the DHS which is riddled with America-hating ideologues.
As for Rubio - an extremely brilliant flash in the pan whose self-identifying racial preferences has doomed him with respect to anyone even remotely concerned with the true sovereignty of this country.
In other words, it will be one extremely very cold day in hell before us conservatives even think about a Bush or a Rubio in connection with anything “national” in the future.
It’s sounds as though the liberal “media’s” post 2012 election “rebranding” recommendation thingy isn’t working out for the GOP.
Too late. I don't care if Rubio (or Jeb Bush, or Christie) campaigns pretending to be more conservative, we know they are big government liberals. I will not support any of the three. Support for turning illegal immigrants into citizens, support for expanding the federal government even more (including for ObamaCare), and opposition to the right of the people to keep and bear arms are inherently and permanently disqualifying positions.
RINO
I can remember when this forum was the only place this term was ever used.
As for 'shiny objects', looks like the shiny object in the white house has lost all of its luster. What's Obama polling at these days?
YEAH!!
And that's all the Bush family ever was.
Lil' Shrub may have talked the talk, but that was just Texas Trash Talkin' for the Rubes.
In the end, he was Daddy's little bag man, moving mountains of money to the family clientele....which is why they got plastered in the 2006 Congressional elections.
The Bush family defines the term RINO. They use the Republican Party as a vehicle for their own personal enrichment, having been unable to do it on their own.
Like the Clintons, which explains their chumminess with the Bush's.
And Rubio is beneath contempt. Just another Reconquistador, a Spaniard trying to reclaim the lost honor of the decrepit Spanish Empire by hijacking the Protestant edifice known as the United States.
He doesn't deserve to sweep our sidewalks. Much less talk about ruling us.
Who is the GOP candidate with the ‘vision thing’ to restore America?
...Rubio has been using the August recess to mend fences.
Too little too late—and good riddance!
Christie will get the Newt/Santorum treatment from Drudge if he runs.
Christie had operatives on the Romney campaign team and there’s a lot of fingerpointing going on over their influence in the Romney debacle.
Throw in some weird homo jealously drama and at least we can know that Christie will have Drudge as an enemy.
He certainly didn't have as much influence in the Romney debacle as Romney himself did.
Drudge is blaming the Christie operatives on Romney’s campaign team for the loss. Whether that’s true or not, it doesn’t matter. Christie and certain campaign advisors are on Drudge’s revenge list.
Christie sure didn’t help....but Romney was toast with or without Christie’s backstabbing.
Spot on. Not much of a conservative either. Glad we found it out early.
Rubio has been the biggest disappointment in my voting life....
He let McCain, Chuckie Schemer, lead him down the primrose path...used him to achieve their goals....
I can’t believe he was that naive...
Maybe if he throws McCain under the bus and backs up a couple of times....
I might reconsider my vote...
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