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Marco Rubio's new mission: Win back the Republican Party’s base
The Hill ^ | Monday August 5, 2013

Posted on 08/05/2013 7:13:52 PM PDT by Bigtigermike

Sen. Marco Rubio's immigration push might have hurt his chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination, Republican lawmakers say. [WATCH VIDEO]

While it’s still a long way until 2016, a number of GOP lawmakers in the House and Senate say Rubio (R-Fla.) will have to repair his standing with the conservative base if he hopes to be his party's next candidate for president.

“There's terrible disappointment with Marco Rubio specifically,” says Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), an opponent of the Senate immigration bill that Rubio helped write and pass. “I don't think it's going to help him anywhere.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; gope; immigration; marcorubio; rubio
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To: Nextrush

Beware of Levin a voice is telling me, he rose to fame feeding talking points to Rush Limbaugh who called his DC source “F. Lee Levin.”

He (Levin)gave Rubio air time and I still remember Rush giving Arlen Specter several airtimes including one right before the 2004 primary election.

There’s a RINOstream media out there alongside the MSM.

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Discouraging!


61 posted on 08/05/2013 8:11:57 PM PDT by man_in_tx (Blowback (Faithfully farting twowards Mecca five times daily).)
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To: Bigtigermike

Yo Marco,
Piss off mate!


62 posted on 08/05/2013 8:13:28 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) ( Hey Rubio, eat pooh pal))
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To: Bigtigermike

No amnesty for illegals.


63 posted on 08/05/2013 8:16:45 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Bigtigermike

Rubio turned out to be a lying SOB. To my dying day, I’ll never forget those disgusting, lie-filled radio commercials. Rubio can go burn in hell. He’ll forever be a symbol of “betrayal.”


64 posted on 08/05/2013 8:21:14 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Bigtigermike

Not even worth considering


65 posted on 08/05/2013 8:21:38 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: man_in_tx

I’m at peace tonight and listening a lot to see if anyone appears to be on the right track.

I like what comes from Cruz and Palin, some of what Rand Paul has to say and some of what Glenn Beck is saying.

Beyond that I don’t like what’s going on out there although I left out some worthy members of the House.


66 posted on 08/05/2013 8:23:04 PM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST)
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To: Bigtigermike

Rubio should buy an ice-cream scooter and a clown suit. He’d make a killing in some neighborhoods.


67 posted on 08/05/2013 8:26:12 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: Bigtigermike
A chant for his campaign rallies:

No mo rub-i-o
68 posted on 08/05/2013 8:32:47 PM PDT by 867V309
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To: Bigtigermike

I heard Mike Lee on Rush this week and was equally disappointed.


69 posted on 08/05/2013 8:33:27 PM PDT by FXRP
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To: Bigtigermike

Not in my life time. Who is sweating more? Us for coming so close to believing he was a conservative and treating him accordingly? Or him for taking off his disguise a little to early and showing his true identity? We were fooled but it could have been worse.


70 posted on 08/05/2013 8:34:29 PM PDT by V K Lee
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To: dandiegirl

I heard him on Levin too. I also heard Levin say he doesn’t want to talk about the “I” word because he’s not in the mood.

Channel got changed directly after that.

Mark, if you are not going to call this lying traitor out when you have the chance, then I am not interested in what either of you have to say.

There is nothing Rubio can say to gain my vote again, and your giving him a platform to try just infuriates me.

Don’t hitch you wagon to his horse, or he will drag you off the cliff with him.

Marco Rubio is poison.


71 posted on 08/05/2013 8:37:19 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: chris37

Levin got clowned by Rubio so he’s gun-shy these days.


72 posted on 08/05/2013 8:39:54 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Nextrush

Check out this guy!
http://youtu.be/f4otIbrqUog


73 posted on 08/05/2013 8:44:25 PM PDT by man_in_tx (Blowback (Faithfully farting twowards Mecca five times daily).)
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To: Bigtigermike

Forget it Marco, you are dead to us now. I feel really, really bad about that, but it is your own fault.


74 posted on 08/05/2013 8:44:37 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Bigtigermike

And what base would that be?


75 posted on 08/05/2013 8:52:18 PM PDT by gitmo ( If your theology doesn't become your biography it's useless.)
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To: Bigtigermike

He’s proven himself untrustworthy. There’s no way to come back from that.


76 posted on 08/05/2013 8:55:10 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Yeh Marco thats gonna happen. When pigs fly. :-)


77 posted on 08/05/2013 8:56:46 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: LongWayHome

Yes, he did. I lost some respect this evening.

Mark, I do not care if this man is your friend. He is not my friend. He is an enemy of my freedom.


78 posted on 08/05/2013 8:59:43 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: Bigtigermike

FU Rubio, you selectively choose which laws to enforce, illegals have made a mockery of the law and this nation, the rule of law only applies to Americans whom you and McLame stabbed in the back while criminal aliens laugh and spit upon our laws!

FU D.C. and the Rino establishment who cast scraps to the peasants and steal the clothes from the corpse of Uncle Sam! As Johnny Cash once said: “You can run on for a long time, but what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light!”


79 posted on 08/05/2013 9:23:34 PM PDT by IslamE (epiphany)
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To: chris37

Levin & Rush were both used. I think they are still somewhat shocked by how they were set-up by Rubio & Chuck Shummer, and then how the democrats laughed about the set-up in public after the fact. Amazing times we live in.


80 posted on 08/05/2013 9:24:00 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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