Posted on 03/12/2015 6:04:15 AM PDT by C19fan
Everybody’s talking about Rubio.” So says a top Republican operative who’s been in touch with nearly every potential presidential campaign, as well as with several top donors. Jeb Bush’s announcement in December launched both a fundraising juggernaut and an aggressive hiring spree, and Scott Walker’s speech in Iowa the following month lifted Walker to the top of national polls. But a little more than a month later, says the operative, “The Jeb boom is over and people are having second thoughts about Walker.”
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One ‘national’ poll showed Jeb with only 4% yesterday.
He seems to be about as popular with the R-masses as McCain was in 2008.
Translation: trying to create some buzz.
"The answer is no."
Rubio is better than Bush or Christie. In the same way, the clap is better than syphilis or AIDS.
Realistically speaking, they’re never going to nominate the “most conservative,” particularly when even conservatives can’t agree on who it is. Every time when somebody emerges who seems like a possibility, somebody will pop up in the “conservative” world and say, “well, you know, he’s not a REAL conservative because of xyz,” and then everybody else takes up the chant, half the time without even verifying the facts. This is true even though the “not a real conservative” meme just basically indicates that the candidate has disagreed on some issue with the self-appointed arbiter of conservatism. But the loudest, most aggressive voices always get the attention, and I think we’ve let ourselves be gypped out of several elections by somebody who comes along at the last moment and screams that such and such a candidate, who was previously doing well, “isn’t a real conservative.”
I think what we want is a combination of conservative values (and I mean social values as well) and a confident leadership personality - not a shrill dictatorial personality, but something that inspires trust - and a track record that gives some evidence of competency. Reagan had all that even though in retrospect not all of his positions could be described as conservative; but at that time, we were still more interested in character and the overall presentation of the candidate.
If I had to say there’s one thing that I would look for overall in the candidate’s positions, however, I’d say it’s “small government” and undoing the powers that the federal government has usurped from the states. Undo this vast, intrusive government that has been growing over the years and has been on steroids since Obama came into office, and give us back our freedom. Freedom to send our kids to the school of our choice and not to be forced to accept the government curriculum, freedom to open businesses and run them in accordance with our consciences, freedom to choose our own doctors - all of the simple things we once had.
But so far, I haven’t heard a single candidate address this issue as being primary (although Walker has touched on it in the context of state’s rights).
They have no idea that Marco's a non-starter, too.
Over a period of years the net cost of comprehensive immigration reform will run close to two trillion. dollars.
“Everybody’s talking about Rubio”
No they are not. This is just hype from Marco’s campaign camp.
I don’t know or know of one person who’s talking about Marco Rubio for President.
I'm talking about Rubio too. He's pro-Amnesty, just like Jeb Bush. I'm done talking about Rubio.
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