And yes, there are other sources, this isn't speculation about Rubio.
MORE:
[snip]But after a November election that saw three of the party’s loudest voices on “creeping Shariah” defeated—and the GOP presidential nominee ignore the issue entirely—the anti-Islam movement within the Republican party may have peaked. Wary of further alienating a once-promising conservative constituency, mainstream Republican leaders have sought, publicly and behind closed doors, to distance themselves from the loudest of the Muslim-bashers in their midst.
“They have gotten a bit of bad odor,” says GOP power-broker Grover Norquist, who has pushed to change his party’s tone on Islam.
A turning point came in July, when Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), along with four Republican colleagues, signed a letter demanding an investigation into the Muslim Brotherhood’s supposed infiltration of the State Department.
Days later, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had condemned Bachmann’s letter from the floor of the Senate, calling it “unwarranted and unfounded” and “scurrilous.” Speaker of the House John Boehner piled on, calling the letter “dangerous.”
Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida senator and tea party favorite widely touted as a potential 2016 contender, publicly denounced the allegations promoted by Bachmann and her allies, like former Reagan official and longtime anti-Shariah activist Frank Gaffney.
Norquist, who runs the influential group Americans for Tax Reform, says that following the letter controversy, “We have heard back from a bunch of Hill staffers—’We are keeping our guy away from Gaffney and those guys, they’re crazy.’”
Gaffney has been blacklisted from the American Conservative Union, which hosts the annual CPAC confab, since 2011, after accusing Norquist and an associate, Suhail Khan, of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood..... His insistence on accusing anyone who deviates from his anti-Shariah line of terrorist sympathies has put him on the outs with the Republican establishment”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/muslim-shariah-republican-herman-cain-grover-norquist-allen-west
PS...this is an interesting article, even if from MJ...it goes on to tell about Herman Cain criticizing Islam and Grover Norquist getting Cain’s thinking right on that subject.
That woman has a spine of steel.
Marco WAS a rising star to me, but after the amnesty debacle and this, I just have no hope in him now.
I’m beginning to think this whole immigration *reform* thing isn’t all about illegals who are here “picking lettuce”.
Who let Rubio under the wire? He’s. DotGov sapper sent to disrupt and split forces.
Forget Rubio. He chose the wrong friends to have a future. People like McCain and Graham are the reason people dislike Republicans. Rubio chose that side.
That is not a "condemnation." The article headline is propaganda to promote conflict between conservatives.
Rubio is really throwing in with the Rockefeller Republicans, no? That’s what happens when they get into office.
Thanks for posting.
Rubio is a garden variety Reconquistador, another power seeking Spaniard using any tactics he can to be the Big Man and Rule the Gringos.
Like Castro, Chavez, Daniel Ortega, Peron (Eva and Juan) and a host of other petty tyrants, he seeks only to be the Caudillo, the clown in the sunglasses and the uniform with the epaulets waving to the Peons from the balcony.
Because in his society this is how you win.
Bachmann represents the Anglo threat to that society: a true egalitarian who emphasizes achievement, critical thought, and a respect for social values found to be sound over the milennia instead of posturing, blustering, and corruption.
They hate her for her freedom!
The freedom to look at degeneracy and say No, not going back to that. Civilization is not bolstered by Third World chaos and lack of values.
But to Rubio, McCain and the Mr. Light-in-the-Loafers Graham, they care not for civilization; only their own personal power.
Absolutely correct - except, America isn't "her country."
Guess he's never heard of 'moles' or 'sleepers"?
Michelle is obvioulsy 'over target' - else why all the flack?
We don't need him anywhere near the WH - anyone who denies the enemy is inside the gates is either lacking in brain power or patriotism.
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising star in the party...
Shows how much things can change in less than a year...
Sen. Scott Brown, the Republican from Massachusetts facing off against Democrat Elizabeth Warren in November, took to Twitter to strongly condemn Bachmann by name
LMBO!
How'd that work out for you, Scott?
Old article or new, anytime a headline says that GOP pols are condemning one of their own, you can always count on McCain’s name appearing.
We're already beginning to see the GOP-elite storm troopers forming and clustering together openly to assault us Bible/Gun Clingers and to marginalize our favored representatives in preparation for the 2014 midterm election.
It's becoming SO evident that Rubio is now one of the satellites that are orbiting around that looney-toon moon-bat, John McCain. I don't have a single doubt that Marco has caught the DC fever we all thought he was inoculated against.
Bachman is very tenacious....and these attacks and attempts to isolate her as a nut case will not scare her off.
Leni
Rubio has lost my support. Every day he is becoming more and more like McCain and his mini-me Lindsey.
"Rep. Bachmann’s accusations about Sec. Clinton aide Huma Abedin are out-of-line. This kind of rhetoric has no place in our public discourse "
Yes, Scott...but are they true?
Maybe we should all be more concerned about iof those allegations are true than if the appear "out of line," or "rhetorically out of place," to some.
Grow a pair.
Nothing wrong with investigating infiltration - if it’s not there, it’s not there. But if it’s there, you want to know about it. Why the fear?
Why the hell is talking to Diane Rehm in the first place?
Uh, those comments were not condemning Bachmann. He said he wasn’t a signatory and did not share her views. That is a far cry from condemnation.
Rubio took the safe path. He didn't condemn Bachmann, just reported he hadn't heard anything bad about Hillary's aide and that Bachmann would have to face the consequences of her views like any politician. Big deal.
For the few uninitiated, here's an example of the difference between straight news and opinion. Even from Salon, a pretentious refuge for snooty white liberal semi-urban hipsters - and who pretend this is straight news even if it was intended for their own demographic - inserting the word "baseless," without quotes or attribution, would even get it flagged on Wikipedia.
First, the infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood in not "baseless," it is well documented.
Claims of guilt by association are no less valid than if there were hundreds of government employees scattered in sensitive positions throughout the federal establishment who were (or used to be) Nazis.
There is no essential difference, and only fools believe differently.
Second, even a reader from Mars would wonder - did Rubio say it was baseless or was just the reporter's opinion?
More words from beyond the grave of Journalism.