Your memories are short. If nothing else, he ran Charlie Crist out of the party by running to the right of him, and by standing up to the Florida and national Republican establishment. That sent positive shock waves through the entire country, and probably inspired other races like Lee in Utah and Cruz in Texas.
I can’t say he always takes the positions I like either, but if he never accomplishes anything else, he has done much more than just talk. When he does talk, however, he is a compelling speaker for the American dream and conservative principles. This puts him miles ahead of a lot of folks in this profession.
I’m sorry, but it’s not hard to run to the right of Charlie Crist. If you were going to run against him as a Republican, you’d have been running to the right of him pretty much by default.
So, he talks a good game, and is a good campaigner. All that says to me is that he’s a good politician, which doesn’t do anything at all to put me at ease. Most people who are good politicians just aren’t good conservatives, and pretty often they aren’t good people at all.
I can’t look at the rest of his life to judge whether he’s a decent person or not, because he’s never had a life outside his childhood and his political life. When I look at his political career, it looks like the career of an opportunist to me. He’s “catholic” when he needs Catholic votes, but he goes to a non-denominational church. He’s the child of “cuban exiles” when he needs cuban votes, but then we find out they weren’t really exiles. When the GOP is pandering for latino votes, out trots Rubio with his amnesty plan. Then, when we’re running a Mormon candidate, we find out that Rubio used to be a Mormon too, he just forgot to mention it before.
Sorry, but I’m not buying the hype. Time will tell whether my gut instinct is wrong on this guy, but I don’t think I will be eating my words. He hasn’t disappointed me yet.
Still not hearing what he’s done since being elected, just how he got there and what a talker he is.
I have seen him promise to weigh the needs of the UN above those of the US.
People are bamboozled by him. It’s not reasonable
Please!!! Rubio is a protege of Jeb Bush....it’s widely known in FL. Rubio staff is mainly people from the Bush and Romney camp, Rubio is certainly not what conservatives imagine him to be