Posted on 06/18/2015 6:33:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ever get the feeling the candidate who is making other candidates worry the most is Marco Rubio? Your feeling is on the money.
On Sunday, Hillary Rodham Clinton relaunched her campaign, trying to tag Republicans by saying they are singing the old Beatles song “Yesterday” — a deliberate effort to turn Rubio’s own stinging charge in April that she was a “leader from yesterday” who “began a campaign for president by promising to take us back to yesterday” back on him.
Not to be outdone, on Monday, Jeb Bush officially began his run for the presidency with a passive-aggressive assault on Rubio that implicitly linked him with Hillary: “the Washington mess,” he said, cannot be cleaned up “by electing the people who either helped create it or have proven incapable of fixing it.”
Before Bush spoke at his own campaign event, Jeb supporter named Don Graetz who worked with Rubio in the Florida state Senate was all aggressive and no passive — he referred to Jeb as “the Florida Republican who can win.” Guess who the Florida Republican who can’t win is supposed to be.
Bush’s event was deliberately Cuban in flavor and feeling, designed to try to neutralize what would appear to be Rubio’s natural advantage with the large number of Cubans who will vote Republican in that state’s crucial February primary.
Rubio might be the scion of an immigrant Cuban family, but Jeb speaks fluent Spanish and is a devoted convert to Catholicism, the faith professed by most Cuban-Americans.
The other unquestioned top-tier Republican candidate, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, has his own clever take on Rubio that seeks to take him down a peg while praising him.
Walker privately speaks admiringly of the Florida senator and says he’d be sure he’d want Rubio . . . as his own VP
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I know. Rubio has his warts, but don’t underestimate his other votes.
He ins’t perfect, FAR from it. But, the choice to stay home or vote 3rd party or for Hillary over a man with a high 80’s Conservative rating, makes no sense.
You’re right. True leadership takes more than that.
I didn’t mean it quite that way and I should have said those qualities are helpful, but do not define leadership.
Warts?
Extending Obama’s unconstitutional DACA is a “wart”?
Walker impresses me with his substance and willingness to fight. We need a candidate who actually wants to win and will fight for it, regardless of the venom people toss at him and Walker has proven he's that sort of man. We do not need another guy who is worried about his image in the press and the punditry more than winning (I'm looking at you Romney, McCain and Jeb Bush). So I like Walker.
As for Rubio, it's undeniable that he has charisma which Walker somewhat lacks, plus he brings Florida and the Hispanic vote into play. However I don't trust Rubio after he conspired with Chuck Schumer months after getting elected, it demonstrated insincerity and duplicity, bad traits for sure. And yet making him VP takes him out of the Senate and puts him where he can do virtually no damage so he helps you win and then he becomes neutralized. Win-win!
I love Ted Cruz, would vote for him in a minute. I just don't see him getting the nod. Would love to be wrong.
I said he has some issues. I am a Cruz guy, so Rubio isn’t my pick.
But don’t tell me he is worse than Hillary and I am just telling you what his conservative ratings say
He scares me too, just like the other amnesty pimps.
If you think the Gang of Eight bill was a bad immigration bill, wait until you see what comes from the TPP treaty disguised as a trade bill.
Lot of gall to put Dan in bed with those two commies. The people never got to know Dan Quayle beyond potatoe.
You may not believe this but voters do not use the same criteria in judging performance as Princeton Debate Team Judges do.
Rubio scares me because he is pro-Amnesty.
Perception is reality, which is why Sarah Palin isn’t the frontrunner for next year.
Or the Supreme Court of the United States or the nearly 30 million voters of the big state of Texas or Alan Dershowitz or...
I may stay home if Rubio is our nominee.
No Jeb fan here, but Rubio just doesn't have it.
My version is; Truth is whatever you believe it to be and facts will never change it for you.
Yep but less than 8 million voted in the last presidential election (that is both parties)in Texas. the other 10 votes won't really matter that much.
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