Posted on 02/06/2016 6:07:04 AM PST by Elderberry
Marco Rubio is often compared to Barack Obama on the campaign trail, and he's quick to refute questions over their comparable inexperience before running for president.
But there's at least one way the senator from Florida draws his own comparison to Obama - if only to pledge he'll score the big wins for conservatives that Obama did for liberals.
"Barack Obama has been the most consequential liberal president since Franklin Roosevelt," Rubio told NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez in a sit-down interview aboard his campaign bus in New Hampshire.
Rubio doesn't believe Obama's accomplishments have been good for the country: He claimed Obama orchestrated a government takeover of the healthcare system, wants to raise taxes and has weakened the military.
"Barack Obama has been an effective liberal. We need to reverse that with someone who is as committed to conservative principles as he has been to liberalism," Rubio said.
Related: Despite Endorsement, Santorum Stumped on Rubio Accomplishments
Rubio dismissed comparisons to Obama from his critics as sour grapes from other candidates jockeying for advantage in the presidential race.
"When people want to win a campaign they say all kinds of things," Rubio said. "I disagree with Barack Obama on virtually every major issue of consequence that's come before this country."
Rubio's comments came in response to recent criticism from his rivals that, like Obama when he first ran for president, Rubio has little concrete to show for his career in politics.
The criticism picked up steam Thursday when former Sen. Rick Santorum, who endorsed Rubio immediately after dropping out of the presidential race on Wednesday, struggled to name any accomplishments from Rubio's time in the Senate.
But Rubio pushed back against those critiques in the interview, telling Gutierrez that he's "proud of my record in public service."
Related: Cascade of Endorsements Gives Rubio Added Momentum
Rubio touted his work on property rights as speaker of the Florida House. In the Senate, Rubio highlighted his efforts to reform the Veterans Administration, eliminate the Obamacare risk corridors and pass new sanctions on Hezbollah.
Pressed on whether passing those sanctions - which drew widespread bipartisan support - constituted a prime achievement of his five years in the Senate, Rubio argued that the Senate had been "paralyzed" by former Majority Leader Harry Reid, making it impossible to pass anything of much consequence.
"Well, listen, we've been in the United States Senate that's been literally paralyzed by Harry Reid for four out of the last five years," Rubio said. "But yes, I'm frustrated at the lack of progress in Washington. That's why I'm running for president, because I want these things to be meaningful again."
Rubio dismissed overall the scrutiny on his record, arguing the election should be a look forward more than anything.
"At the end of the day, this election's about the future, not just a resume competition. This election is about what happens next for America," he said.
Rubio's been campaigning hard in New Hampshire, and heads into the final three days before voters head to the polls riding on the momentum of a stronger-than-expected finish in Iowa and a cascade of powerful endorsements from elected officials in a handful of states. The good week both provides a positive backdrop to, and ups the ante for, the next GOP debate, on Saturday night, when he's certain to have a target on his back.
But Rubio insisted he wasn't fazed by the pressure, and his prep-work for the debates was mostly just keeping current on the latest news.
"I'm running for president. I know what I stand for. I know what I believe. And so preparing for debates is basically just staying current on the news and be prepared to answer in a serious way the questions that are asked of you - but also outlining a vision for America's future," he said.
His future see millions of new voters speaking Spanish.
That is not the vision of the future of most Americans.
Both Zero and Roofio have lied their way to power. So typical of leftists.
“I don’t have any resume that I want you to look at so let’s change the subject. ‘Kay?”
Your future is 8 years down the road, Marco. In the meantime, accomplish something in the senate or run for Governor of Florida. Get some experience...
The future when Rubio got sent to congress was an immediate betrayal of the people who sent him there. Amnesty siding with chuck Schumer over conservatives! Rubio is retiring from the senate as of this election...because he will lose if he tries to run again.
This is the same future we face as Americans if Rubio is elected.
To hell with these uniparty GOPe establishment pigs. Send Rubio back to the private sector, not Washington.
This is why the Rube does not want us to look at his past with Zero accomplishments:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3393147/posts
Marco Rubio’s 7 Top Achievements In U.S. Senate
breitbart.com ^ | February 4
Posted on 2/5/2016, 4:35:35 AM by Helicondelta
Following Rick Santorum’s inability to name a single achievement of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) , the media sought to answer the question for themselves. Yet many reporters appear to have come up empty handed.
As The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza writes, a “major part of the problem is that Rubio doesn’t have all that many accomplishments in the Senate.”
Though Rick Santorum was unable to name the accomplishments of the man he just endorsed, there are indeed several accomplishments that are quite noteworthy. Below are a few of Sen. Rubio’s achievements that Rick Santorum could have identified on MSNBC this morning:
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(1) The Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill
Rubio’s immigration bill would have tripled the issuances of green cards, doubled the dispensation of foreign worker visas, and granted citizenship — and, thereby, welfare access and voting privileges — to illegal immigrants.
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(2) Obamatrade
Sen. Rubio cast the 60th and deciding vote to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
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(3) Blocking Curbs to Muslim Immigration
In 2015, Rubio introduced an immigration bill which would have allowed for an unlimited increase in Muslim migration.
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(4) Enabling His Corporate Backers to Replace Americans With Foreign Workers
Shortly before the Disney workers got the axe, Rubio introduced legislation in January of 2015 to massively expand the H-1B program.
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(5) Blocking Food Stamp Reform
In 2011, Marco Rubio voted against a Republican proposal which the Congressional Budget Office projected would save the U.S. government $10 billion by reining in the abuse of the food stamp program.
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(6) Benghazi
As George Will pointed out, Sen. Rubio gave his “enthusiastic support of the Barack Obama/Hillary Clinton intervention in Libya.”
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(7) Worst Attendance Record
He’s a double talking amnesty RINO.
That open container violation in the park may have involved something a little mo.
This is why the Establishment Perot is always given a speech. When Rubio is not on script or reading a teleprompter..... He is a complete dumb@ss. It's why the Establishment wants him there.
DO NOT TRUST RUBIO! He is ESTABLISHMENT FRAUD!
Yet he was counter harping to politico about the very same thing.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3393651/posts
These people and him don’t think people can read or something.
EVERY election is about the future, by definition. And this little twerp thinks he is cutting a big hog every time he says it, which is quite often.
Yes, because that's worked out so well for the former Governor of Florida.
Well of course, Marco, because your true resume is basically a blank sheet of paper.
This election is about what happens next for America
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And what Mario Rubco wants to happen next for America is for us to abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to illegal aliens and their employers.
He has no political future, he has said he is bored with the Senate and is not running for his seat.
I will never vote for the duplicitous weasel.
“Marco Rubio: Election Is About Future, Not ‘Resume Competition’”
Says the man whose resume is a blank piece of paper.
Yesterday I heard Rush say that Rubio is a full throated Conservative who in conversations with Rush said all the right things. That’s the problem. Rubio knows how to TALK LIKE A CONSERVATIVE but his actions are what is important and they are NOT conservative. Any Repub foolish and naive enough to partner with Schumer and be his sock puppet on immigration is too stupid to be in office, any office.
It’s nice not to have a geriatric candidate. Rubio is right, like it or not; we’ve got to figure out a path to a better, nin-statis future. Obama has done more than FDR to make the country into a socialist, racially driven hell-hole, and the future cannot continue this way.
As for Harry Reid, the person who really sabotaged Rubio and all the GOP was Mitch McConnell, who even when the GOP got power at last, stymied all their legislative points. Cruz didn’t get anything through either.
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