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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.

New Info. Is this the shirtless FBI Dude???
"During last year's FBI citizens academy, which Kelley attended, Natalie Shepherd, a reporter with Channel 8 in Tampa, was one of two media representatives also invited. Among the 30 people on the list was the head of the host committee for the Republican National Convention, a vice president of security for Walt Disney Corp., and the Hillsborough County tax collector. "She's the only person on the list who's just listed as her name," Shepherd said. Each Tuesday evening session at the local field office covered a different topic, such as domestic terrorism, international terror or cybercrime. Shepherd said agent Humphries led one talk about Afghanistan. Shepherd recalled Kelley as attentive and inquisitive, but otherwise low-key — especially given recent revelations. "She wasn't dropping names or alluding to those connections at all," she said. "She seemed like one of the normal people in the class." The FBI did not immediately return a call requesting information on Kelley and the class." Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Socialite-s-climb-halted-by-unfolding-scandal-4033354.php#ixzz2CL6APpgI

What frightens me about Rubio is that his defenders run about nine to one every thread and they have no logic to back up their defense of him.

I can bet they won’t find pictures of Paul Ryan with these
“socialites”, as he is a sober man with a job to do and who can discern that they are up to no good and won’t want any association with them.

I’m not buying, or selling, the hype either. All I’m saying is that you are not putting in perspective what he did to Crist. For an unkown legistlator, to go up against a sitting governor, who had good approval ratings, in a race for Senator? That was an amazing win against the GOP establishment.

He may well be the sell out you say he is, and that would be a shame. That doesn’t change the fact that his defeat of Crist rattled the entire national establishment and gave hope to a lot of the other great candidates everywhere.

Those in Florida are far more able to define him than I am - but perhaps those inside Florida are unaware of how he changed the atmosphere everywhere by what he did to Charlie Crist. That’s all I’m saying, and for that, I’m grateful.

I have heard the warnings from Floridians about him, and I take those seriously. But he’s already done us all a favor, even if he never does another one for us.