Posted on 04/02/2015 5:58:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Appearing before a room full of Democratic partisans in his first speech as a 2016 Senate candidate, Rep. Patrick Murphy compared Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to conservative firebrand Allen West, took jabs at the tea party and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and cheered the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency.
Murphy, who announced his Senate candidacy last week, made a brief appearance at Thursday night’s Palm Beach County Democratic Party meeting in West Palm Beach.
Murphy was elected in 2012 by presenting himself as a moderate alternative to outspoken conservative West, unseating the Republican in a district where the GOP has a slight registration edge. Throughout his first term in the House, Murphy highlighted his willingness to reach across the aisle and vote with Republicans on some issues, including delaying portions of Obamacare.
Murphy criticized “hyper-partisanship” in his remarks Thursday and said “compromise…shouldn’t be a dirty word.” But he also played up his Democratic credentials as he braces for a potential Democratic Senate primary challenge from liberal Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando.
Murphy stressed he’s for comprehensive immigration reform, increasing the minimum wage, abortion rights, equal pay for women and gay marriage.
“People have said to me ‘Why are you running against Marco Rubio or whomever his tea party replacement might be?’ They say he might be hard to beat and we have to take on the whole national tea party movement,” Murphy said.
“But I have two words for them: Allen West. We’ve done this before.”
Murphy added: “The Senate is full of Allen Wests, including Marco Rubio.”
He said Rubio supported immigration reform, but “apparently a small group of tea party obstructionists were against it so he changed mind.”
Murphy noted Democrats need to pick up five seats to recapture control of the Senate.
“Let’s take back the Senate,” Murphy said. “Let’s make sure we send Ted Cruz back to the minority. Let’s send Marco Rubio home. Let’s make sure Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States of America.”
If only that were TRUE we’d be in a much better place.
Now, more than ever, Marco needs to forget running for POTUS and run for reelection to protect that Senate seat against the likes of this meat head.
Taking a play from their own playbook -
WHY DOES HE HATE BLACKS?
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EXCELLENT!!! Hell yeah! Let’s turn the tables on the Democrats who play the “race card” when it’s not even in the deck. AND.... DID YOU KNOW..... that Democrats hate Ted Cruz because their largest voting bloc is the Black vote, who do not like Latinos, and Cruz is Hispanic? Yep; that’s a fact; help spread the word:
MOST DEMOCRATS HATE TED CRUZ BECAUSE HE IS HISPANIC.
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