From this FR article Rubio could have and should have broken ranks with the Gang of Eight to support those amendments but he didnt And theres a one word answer for the big question why he didnt.
Staff.
That srticle is saying, I think, that his staff reflects who he is, not the other way around, but that excerpt sounds ambiguous. It would is hard for me to swallow the notion that his staff tricked him. Did McCain "accidentally" appoint Juan Hernandez, the Mexican government agent, to his staff, not knowing what he was up to?
And yet many conservatives were so appalled at the prospect of Obama being POTUS that they tried to give McCain the benefit of the doubt.
SOL:He will run in 2016 and try to court Hispanics, but before that he will come up with lots of these empty tough sounding proposals that go no-where, to get his creds back with GOP voters,
Like McCain. SOL is on the money.
Are those conservatives who have been betrayed so predictably and often, so gullible that they will fall for the same swindle forever?
Rubio, Rubio, Rubio...
Good Lord these RINOs are dense.
Shut down the government and this dunce would slam Conservatives who thought that was the right thing to do.
Don’t shut it down and he says it should be shut down.
Witness what happened to Gingrich for doing the right thing. Did the RINOs stand behind him? No. In fact almost no one did.
How soon can Rubio be replaced?
I forgot all about him.
He used to be on TV all the time during the 2006/2007 amnesty fight. Man he could smile.