Rubio has it going on. I just got my Rubio bumper sticker.
Posted on 09/27/2009 3:30:53 PM PDT by Maelstorm
The Rocky Balboa fight of politics is occurring right before our eyes here in the Sunshine State.
Charlie Crist, the ever-popular governor of Florida with approval ratings in the 60's is getting more than he ever bargained for in his race for the United States Senate from Marco Rubio, the former speaker of the house in the Florida state legislature.
The pundits predicted an early landslide. The Republican establishment in Florida offered Rubio an easier office to win.
Maybe Attorney General?
Rubio declined.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) even threw their hat behind Crist the week he announced.
So what.
So how is Rubio still around?
It's definitely not the money as Crist has all but dominated that game by taking part in establishment fundraisers in Atlanta and Washington, DC. Meanwhile, Rubio has been touring the state.
Of Florida that is. Not Georgia, and not DC.
Again, how is Rubio still around? Could it be the conservative message and not the message that Crist recently offered by being one of a very few Republicans to endorse President Obama's stimulus package, a stimulus package of which only 36% of Americans believe is actually working? Or the fact that Crist said that Florida's above average unemployment was "not that big of a deal"?
Not to mention the fact that voters may be considering Crist a lightweight as Rubio has challenged Crist to ten debates. Ten debates that Crist has declined because he is supposedly too "focused on governing" and is saving sea turtles instead.
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I’m on the west coast of Florida & have been looking for a Marco Rubio bumper sticker (I tape them to the side windows of my car so people can see them better). Where did you find your bumper sticker?
Wow and wow! I am so happy to read this, my sister lives in Florida and is a Dem so she likes Crist, enough said!
“Crist, the ever-popular governor of Florida with approval ratings in the 60’s”
What’s the breakdown among republicans?
Crist may be popular with them - but in Florida - we like to pick our own canidates. No more settling for their 'McCain like' pick for us!!
The orange colored. white haired Rino is not our choice. Send all contributions right to our candidate. The National Party can go climb a tree!!
Rubio should run for Governor... I will be so pissed if he wins the primary and loses the general...
Charlie Crist, the ever-popular governor of Florida with approval ratings in the 60's is getting more than he ever bargained for in his race for the United States Senate from Marco Rubio, the former speaker of the house in the Florida state legislature... The National Republican Senatorial Committee and Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) even threw their hat behind Crist the week he announced... Could it be the conservative message and not the message that Crist recently offered by being one of a very few Republicans to endorse President Obama's stimulus package, a stimulus package of which only 36% of Americans believe is actually working? Or the fact that Crist said that Florida's above average unemployment was "not that big of a deal"?The left wing hate machine has probably already started the smears.
The conservatives are poised to make big gains in the next elections if only the Republican RINO leadership will stop trying to defeat them!
Not with me! I never liked him and certainly don't want to see him in the senate. Enough with the RINO’s already. I will never forgive him for endorsing McCain on the eve of the Florida primary election.
We will be fine. I don’t think we need the Republican leadership. We have conservative Republican leadership (DeMint,Pence, Palin, and others) and we shouldn’t confuse that with Party leadership. Rubio will win regardless of them that is why I’m currently giving him an automated monthly donation which I think all conservatives should.
This MAY be the start of the Conservative take-over of the Republican Party. If the RINO’s crush this it is time for Sarah to start the Conservative Party.
Marco Rubio is the future of the party. The man is consevative, intelligent, smokin’ hot, and Hispanic. The Soros wing of the GOP is in a total panic, as they should be.
100% of the people I know here in Florida don’t like Crist.
First Spector. Now Crist.
When is John going to realize he's the kiss of death! LOL!
It really makes me mad when elected officials get involved in each other's campaigns that are none of their business. But, we're better off when they stay out of ours.
I’m behind Rubio right ‘chere in Texas. Crist is indeed a RINO.....I hope your guy wins. That would send a REAL message throughout the land........RINO’S need not apply. (And I’m sending my Senator Cornyn a letter as to my displeasure with his supporting Crist).
I’d vote for him!!!
Him = Rubio ;-)
Cannot support Rubio...he is pro-illegal alien. And, appears to be a Mel Martinez clone...contrary to what people posting on FR think
In Florida the GOP candidate for the seat being vacated by former Senator Mel Martinez will, in all likelihood, win in November 2010, for a number of reasons. Not least among them the prevailing political zeitgeist seems to be working in favor of the GOP because of Obama’s ineptitude, and his dangerous descent into the alternative reality of the leftwing feverswamp.
Also, it looks like the d-RAT favorite to challenge for the seat will be the hapless Kendrick Meek. I suspect that he is being offered up as the d-RAT sacrificial lamb, because the Florida and national RATS don’t know what else to do with him.
If we’re going to market and offer the Florida electorate a true conservative in Reagan’s words, of “bold colors,” instead of the “pale pastels” of moderate, eastern establishment, Rockefeller Republicanism as exemplified by Charlie Crist, than this is the year to get behind the gifted former Speaker of the Florida House, Marco Rubio.
This photo op will cost Crist this primary if nothing else will.
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