Posted on 06/17/2012 3:18:19 PM PDT by Steelfish
June 17, 2012 Rubio: GOP Has Work To Do To Win Over Hispanics
Marco Rubio says, "I'm not going to be the vice-president."
He can deny it all he wants, but there's no denying that a lot of people think the Senator could be Mitt Romney's running-mate.
When asked by O'Donnell if, at age 41 and in his second year in the Senate, he thinks he is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, Rubio replied, "Well, look, I have a job now, and I certainly feel like I'm qualified to be in the United States Senate. Like anything you do in life, you learn. So certainly I feel that I'm better prepared to be in the Senate today than I was a year ago."
Maybe he's seen as too young for this election cycle. But in Marco Rubio, many conservatives, not to mention Tea Party supporters, have a new hero - one who is personable, seemingly unflappable, and could wind up helping to broaden the Republican base with Hispanic voters.
"You've been called the Tea Party Senator; first of all, do you like that name?" asked O'Donnell.
"I have no problem being associated with the Tea Party," Rubio said. "But I can only tell you what I stand for. And I think the things that I stand for, and I think the things the Republican Party should and does stand for, are very mainstream positions."
Those positions are strongly conservative, right down the line. Abortion rights? "I'm pro-life," he says. "I believe life begins at conception."
President Obama's Affordable Care Act? "I think it should be repealed and replaced."
Entitlement reform? "I think it's essential. I want to save Medicare. My mom's on Medicare."
Understanding Rubio requires a visit to West Miami, the heavily-Cuban immigrant community where.....
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European-Americans aren't the largest growing ethnic group in America. Hispanics are. By 2050, half the country will be Hispanic and whoever wants to win elections will need a sizable percentage of their votes.
Here I am, Marco - what are you gonna do for ME?
2050? Hell, I’ll be dead by 2050. And likely so will the United States.
Note to Levin and Ingraham: “STOP PIMPING RUBIO!”
We had this debate before. North America or south America? North Korea or South Korea? East Germany or West Germany? Legal illegal Rubio better decide. We don’t need know stinkin lecture Marco.
Yeah, in the long run we are all dead, right Mr. Keynes?
Romney, Rubio & Co. need white votes in four months.
As long as they’re pandering to illegal aliens, they can kiss the only part of my ass that isn’t white.
The conservative message is simple... you either get it or you don’t.
The GOP-e is nothing but a pathetic bunch of political opportunists who’ll pander to any demographic for votes.
“Votes! Votes! Votes! What do I have to say to get those votes!?!”
The Hispanics who need to be sweet-talked into voting Republican are like drug addicts who are counseled into kicking the habit... the commitment sure won’t last long.
FU Rubio, you establishment putz.
“Work to do,” or does he mean “Values to compromise”?
Sorry if we don’t want to live life quite as corruptly as Hispanics do.
-Cheers!
You can’t go by 2050 estimates especially when Hispanic birth rates have been dropping pretty fast as of late. Census rolls are also no good since a good portion of the tallied are illegals.
Long-term population trends are usually one of the most difficult to predict due to outside factors. Not to say we shouldn’t try to appeal to Hispanics on a conservative philosophy approach but pandering to them is a losing proposition,
All emotional, promoting riots and divisions in America through preferential treatments under the guise of “humane” and fair, bringing pills, sex, drugs, free stuff riots and what not... It’s the sick program.
Interesting that these young people will not be told to study that islam is evil or that America is great or should be exceptional, and they won’t give a rat’s arse about our values...
They want their riot and their disrespect, they will get it.
Absolutely true. We have enough people here who think they're so special that laws don't apply to them.
Benedict Arnold
(obviously decided that the British were going to win, so what the heck)
His name is synonymous with disloyalty. During the American Revolutionary War, Arnold began the war in the Continental Army, but later defected to the British Army. While still a general on the American side, he became Commander of the West Point fort in New York, and offered to surrender it to the British. After the plot came to light, in September 1780, Arnold joined the British Army as a brigadier general, with a sizable pension and £6,000 signing bonus.
Many believe that he was frustrated at being passed over for promotion, sickened by others taking credit for his achievements, and tired of (groundless) accusations that he exacted private property for the use of the army . In fact, Congressional investigations later found Arnold had spent much of his own money on the American war effort. Much like Aaron Burr (above) Arnold’s plan unraveled due to an intercepted document: when American forces captured British Major John André carrying papers revealing the proposed surrender of West Point, Arnold fled to a British ship docked on the Hudson river, narrowly escaping the forces of one highly pissed off George Washington. Britain quickly secured Arnold’s services, and he led British raids in Virginia, New London and Groton, Connecticut, before the war ended with the American victory at Yorktown. Arnold died in London, and monuments to him there are ambiguous at best.
He’s right. First we’ll have to teach them to speak and read English, as needed, and then we’ll need to educate them about why socialism is cultural suicide and conservaatism is better. Anything else would just be pandering.
A handsome young man, superbly articulate, and conservative on the issues about 27% of the time. The rest seems to be coming out of the Jeb Bush/Myth Romney playbook.
Rubio reminds me a little of the predicament Santorum. Used by the Establishment (Jeb Bush in particular)as their mouthpiece for baiting the electorate with their liberal shennanigans, this is Rubio’s path to advancement and he wants it bad.
Romney is FOR everything he has sent Rubio out to sell. Rubio, well groomed by Jeb, is out to prove his bono fidis as a liberal moderate conservative Republican. LOL.
I prefer DOers with a record and a brain. Like Scott Walker. Rubio is basically untested in a head wind on big things, but for the rah rah oratory.
“Never understood all the hoopla about this establishment pretty boy.”
The Colin Powell project didn’t pan out all that well. This is the new effort.
Mark Levin has messed up. What the heck has happened to his antenna? It’s like he’s for anything that moves this cycle.
If they speak better than GWB 43, that’s enough. He seems to be for all noise and rhetoric, and minimum accomplishment.
Mark has been neutral on anybody with a record of kicking the Democrats to hell and back, as if that might present some kind of public relations/electability problem, so we sure don’t want anyone who can do the dang job and has a record to prove it, if we can have someone with minimal record and a big voice making lots of racket.
I don’t know anyone who follows Laura Ingaham.
Rubio does not adhere to the US Constitution as his guide.
He wants us to be “compassionate” and we have to win over interest
groups.
Reagan he is not.
Ronald Reagan was for principles not special ethnic groups. NEVER!
He won the Reagan Democrats with this spirit.
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