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Rubio gets second look from GOP after Venezuela speech
MSNBC ^ | February 28, 2014 | Benjy Sarlin

Posted on 02/28/2014 6:49:18 AM PST by C19fan

2013 wasn’t the greatest year for Sen. Marco Rubio. After starting out as the tentative GOP frontrunner for president, the Florida Republican devoted himself to passing immigration reform only to awkwardly back away from the issue after conservatives rebelled. While he was busy regaining his footing, the Senate’s tea party stars Ted Cruz and Rand Paul outflanked him with the grassroots. A then-ascendant New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie rallied the donor class.

But now, for the first time in a long while, Rubio is getting another look from his skeptics on the right.

On Monday, the son of Cuban immigrants delivered an impassioned polemic against communism from the Senate floor, lighting into his Democratic colleague Tom Harkin for praising the Castro government’s national health care system after a recent visit.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: gop; rino; rinotrash; rubio
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To: C19fan

Nope. He’s done.


21 posted on 02/28/2014 9:31:47 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: C19fan

If I invented a new psychedlic drug, I would name it MSNBC.


22 posted on 02/28/2014 9:33:29 AM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: C19fan

Bingo.

I care not of his words, I care about his ACTIONS/votes. He burned that bridge right out of the gate with ol’ Chucky and the gang.


23 posted on 02/28/2014 9:38:39 AM PST by i_robot73 (Give me one example and I will show where gov't is the root of the problem(s).)
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To: Din Maker
Rand Paul duped us Tea Party Folks. He's just another Inside-the-Beltway political whore.

Amen! The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree!

DO NOT TRUST RAND PAUL! PERIOD!

24 posted on 02/28/2014 9:57:19 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Paine in the Neck

Still wouldn’t buy it. He drank the Potomac kool-aid with the gang of 8 punks. No thanks Rube.


25 posted on 02/28/2014 10:29:19 AM PST by sarge83
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To: stockpirate

Sincerity is everything,
if you can fake that, you got it made.

26 posted on 02/28/2014 11:58:41 AM PST by itsahoot (Voting for RINOs is the same as voting for any other Tyrant)
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