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Marco Rubio's chance for Revenge
CNN ^ | 1/13/17 | Stephen Collinson and Manu Raju

Posted on 01/13/2017 7:09:47 AM PST by ek_hornbeck

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To: ek_hornbeck

Rubio has that bleary, watery eyed look of a heavy drinker.


61 posted on 01/13/2017 9:21:40 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: conejo99

Cost him? He is still there and making points with Schumer.


62 posted on 01/13/2017 9:35:24 AM PST by arthurus
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To: ek_hornbeck

“So, Marco, you’re telling us that in your opinion John Kerry was acceptable as Secretary of State but Rex Tillerson is not?”

That is indeed the question that needs to be asked of Rubio. Also for McCain if he decides to vote against Tillerson.


63 posted on 01/13/2017 9:54:28 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: MrEdd

“His work with McCain and Graham in arming terrorists in Libya is likely to end his career soon anyway.”

That story needs to be totally exposed. A lot of us know that they were working with Obama to support the terrorists including ISIS.


64 posted on 01/13/2017 9:55:52 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: ek_hornbeck

Has anyone here noticed this? Whenever there’s an article from one of these news rags, and the article is particularly damaging, they almost always have two or more writers. Why is that?


65 posted on 01/13/2017 9:59:30 AM PST by nikos1121 (I would love to see Rudy in charge of the FBI)
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To: ek_hornbeck

No I hate those PR***s!! Hate’em!! My point was that sooner or later Communist Nazi Network will pit good pubs against each other...the 3amigos should be severely punished and pinned against the wall!!


66 posted on 01/13/2017 10:01:43 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: ek_hornbeck

The contrast between “Little Marco” and T Rex was astounding. You have this little punk kid on the one hand questioning an adult, who is truly on the world stage.

Go ahead, Little Marco, delay or vote against T Rex. Your political career is just about over anyway, you pull this stunt, and it will over much quicker, but on the other hand, you will giving Trump another victory.


67 posted on 01/13/2017 10:04:55 AM PST by nikos1121 (I would love to see Rudy in charge of the FBI)
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To: ek_hornbeck
This is a test of McConnell as much as of Rubio.

If McConnell doesn't want his wife's nomination threatened, he needs to let Rubio know he will be given the Cruz treatment in the next Senate, perhaps even stripping Rubio of choice committee assignments.

Does McConnell have it in him to rein in his own caucus?

-PJ

68 posted on 01/13/2017 10:06:12 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The little gay bastard only won reelection because Trump was on the ballot.

I think he will come around.


69 posted on 01/13/2017 10:08:59 AM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: ek_hornbeck
Robot Rubio with his memorized answers is somebody's puppet.

Too bad the people of Arizona keep reelecting Crazy McCain and are in no mood to demand a recall.

70 posted on 01/13/2017 10:09:13 AM PST by apocalypto
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

YUK!!!! Where in the hell is he in all those SUDS??? I hope it’s BEER SUDS!


71 posted on 01/13/2017 10:11:48 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Please name ANOTHER SANE DEMOCRAT??? I know of No others.


72 posted on 01/13/2017 10:13:09 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: apillar

I hope that is the case. While there has been talk of Red-State Democrats, the lock-step voting on the Obama care repeal has me placing minimal faith in them.


73 posted on 01/13/2017 10:42:09 AM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Parley Baer

I suspect that Trump will use the bully pulpit to do exactly that, given these eleventh hour shenanigans.


74 posted on 01/13/2017 11:01:50 AM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: Parley Baer

“His work with McCain and Graham in arming terrorists in Libya is likely to end his career soon anyway.”

That story needs to be totally exposed. A lot of us know that they were working with Obama to support the terrorists including ISIS.


yup


75 posted on 01/13/2017 11:03:16 AM PST by samtheman (I voted for Trump without Russian help.)
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To: Starboard

His parents were Cuban nationals when he was born.
He is not a natural born citizen.
He is not eligible to be President.


76 posted on 01/13/2017 11:15:33 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: arthurus

“Cost him? He is still there and making points with Schumer.”
Not too long ago Rubio was a Tea Party favorite and considered a solid conservative by many (or most) activists.
During the primaries he had changed to persona non grata by activist conservatives.
It may be that no one could have defeated Trump in this years primaries, but Rubio’s betrayal kept him from being the conservative, non-Trump alternative.


77 posted on 01/13/2017 11:35:37 AM PST by conejo99
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To: ek_hornbeck

Tillerson is a brilliant intellect being questioned by a group of mental midgets. 90% of the people questioning him would not qualify as a middle manager at McDonald’s.


78 posted on 01/13/2017 11:51:31 AM PST by bestrongbpositive
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To: conejo99

On net it has not cost Rubio anything. That may change in the Trump administration.


79 posted on 01/13/2017 1:10:37 PM PST by arthurus
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To: RoseofTexas; mrsmel
In response to your other point - that Democrats have more "circular firing squad" issues to deal with than Republicans, I respectfully disagree.

It's true that Democrats are in much worse shape than Republicans, but that isn't because of internal divisions. The Democrats are in shambles because A. they don't know how to govern and B. they've alienated white voters. The media loves to talk about how Republicans alienate blacks and Hispanics, but just barely acknowledge how liberal Democrats have been giving the middle finger to whites (especially blue collar whites) for decades.

When it comes to party unity, Democrats march lockstep much more than Republicans do. For example, it was obvious that any and all viable Democrats were told not to run against Hillary because it was "her turn," and they obeyed - only unelectables and no-names made a token show to make the process seem like a real election rather than a coronation. When Bernie got too big for his britches, the DNC put him in his place (as the DNC hacks revealed). When Hillary was nominated, Bernie and all other Democrats wasted no time endorsing her.

In contrast, the Republican primaries were (mostly) wide open no matter how hard the party tried to inflict Jeb upon us. After the primaries, many prominent Republicans not only didn't endorse Trump, they actively tried to sabotage his candidacy during the election. Now they're trying to stall Trump's cabinet appointments. No prominent Democrat attempted to do the same to Hillary, and no House or Senate Democrats ever questioned any of Obama's cabinet appointments. So Democrats are failures in spite of their party unity, while Republicans are relatively successful in spite of their relative lack of party unity.

The upside to all this is that conservatives tend to be independent-minded while liberals think and act in lockstep.

80 posted on 01/13/2017 1:10:59 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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