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Why Marco Rubio Should Be the GOP's Presidential Front-Runner
National Journal ^ | December 2, 2014 | Josh Kraushaar

Posted on 12/03/2014 8:28:16 AM PST by C19fan

he leading contender for the GOP's presidential nomination is polling at a measly 3 percent in two new national surveys testing Republican primary candidates. He wasn't even included in Bloomberg's November poll of likely New Hampshire primary voters. He's been overshadowed by the media's obsession with brand-name candidates, like Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush, even though his profile is more compelling than either.

But Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is as well-positioned as any Republican to emerge from the crowded scrum of potential candidates—and his strengths are significant enough that many are forgetting what made him a top Republican prospect in the first place:

(Excerpt) Read more at nationaljournal.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; openborders; potus; rubio
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No to Open Borders Rubio.
1 posted on 12/03/2014 8:28:16 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan
Nope.
Ted Cruz
2 posted on 12/03/2014 8:29:53 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: C19fan

Your choices are already being made for you. Ain’t it great?


3 posted on 12/03/2014 8:30:13 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: C19fan

He is backing away up from it. But, it is too soon and he needs to back further. No, not now and no way Jeb or Ryan either.


4 posted on 12/03/2014 8:30:27 AM PST by amnestynone (A big government conservative is just a corporatist who is not paying enough taxes.)
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To: C19fan

Rubio blew it by his forked tongue.


5 posted on 12/03/2014 8:30:36 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Es Mi Partido, Ahora!)
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To: C19fan

My suggested 2016 ticket: Ted Cruz and Ben Carson.


6 posted on 12/03/2014 8:32:03 AM PST by July4
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To: C19fan

We will not vote for a RINO EVER AGAIN!


7 posted on 12/03/2014 8:32:15 AM PST by uncitizen (IM MAD AS HELL AND IM NOT GONNA TAKE THIS ANYMORE)
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To: C19fan

More Hispanic Supremacist crap.

You cannot win without us! We are the Beeg Men!

Actually if the GOP simply increases it’s “non-Hispanic white” vote by a few percent it wipes out the current Hispanic margin.

Then the simple thing to do is DEPORT THE ILLEGALS so they can’t create any “Americans” who will grow up to vote against Americans, and definitely NEVER consider Amnesty of any kind!!!


8 posted on 12/03/2014 8:32:17 AM PST by Regulator
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To: VRW Conspirator

Rubio might make a decent VP...but there’s a field of forty such characters.


9 posted on 12/03/2014 8:33:08 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: C19fan

Good grief, no!


10 posted on 12/03/2014 8:33:25 AM PST by paladinan (Rule #1: There is a God. Rule #2: It isn't you.)
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To: C19fan

No .. I would never support anybody who is ignorant enough to join forces with a person like Chuck Schumer.

I firmly believe it was only Ted Cruz who wrestled Rubio away from that “gang” .. who’s only purpose was to put a GOP person in front of the gang .. and thereby Rubio would be the person who would be blamed if there were any problems.

Rubio is not a bad person; just naïve to the ways of the democrats.


11 posted on 12/03/2014 8:33:30 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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?????

cux, he too, is not eligible...?????

Dick.G: AMERICAN !
aka: Gunny G
*****


12 posted on 12/03/2014 8:33:46 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: C19fan

RINOs like each other a lot.


13 posted on 12/03/2014 8:34:10 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: C19fan
Cruz/West 2016..near perfection. 😆

14 posted on 12/03/2014 8:34:29 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: C19fan

Cruz, Pence, Walker, and perhaps Perry. That’s the list, pick one.


15 posted on 12/03/2014 8:34:50 AM PST by Beagle8U (If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then shoplifters are undocumented customers.)
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To: C19fan
CRUZ Y RUBIO.

"Rubio" means blonde in Spanish and "cruz" means cross.
The BLOND CROSS. It's odd but then politics IS odd. :o)

16 posted on 12/03/2014 8:35:11 AM PST by cloudmountain
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Rubio is not open borders. It is self-defeating to misrepresent any candidate whose background and ideas are conservative. That is Marco Rubio. He went into a deal as a new senator and discovered at the end that the deal had changed.

He PUBLICLY rejected that compromise bill.

So, to say anything without throwing that truth in is to injure one of our own and to do it needlessly.


17 posted on 12/03/2014 8:35:44 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: July4

“Do the Teddy”
Cruz/the Nuge 2016


18 posted on 12/03/2014 8:36:08 AM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gunnyg

Gunny! Hi!


19 posted on 12/03/2014 8:36:30 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: C19fan

20 posted on 12/03/2014 8:36:35 AM PST by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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