I’m going to respectfully disagree or at least defend my point here. And who knows which of us is right.
It’s easy to see Rubio had the ILLUSION of promise, because we can say that literally about pretty much every single person, or every single Republican in Congress. And yes, I guess unfortunately for many, even the large majority of them, it did wind up being a mere illusion.
However, I don’t know if he just used the Tea Party for his goals of getting elected or not. Maybe he did.
But what caught my eye with Marco Rubio initially was this was a guy who wrote a letter (open or otherwise) to President Obama when we were coming up on one of our debt ceiling showdowns. As a matter of fact, I found the letter, or an article sharing the text of it.
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/marco-rubio-calls-out-obama-debt-ceiling
That was in January of 2012. To me, it showed the toughness and the spine, as well as the conviction to state and make a stand in a way we would want any Republican or any conservative to do, so long as they back up those words and stick to those convictions.
Now, maybe that was a ploy. Maybe it was legitimate and he’s fell since then. Certainly this was before any Gang of 8 or any other Marco screw ups afterward.
So I would say he had promise if those are the kinds of things he actually believed and was willing to fight for. But unfortunately today fighting is something he’s not very keen on actually doing. Not for our causes and not for the betterment of the nation anyway.
“Certainly this was before any Gang of 8 or any other Marco screw ups afterward.”
That Gang of Eight adventure wasn’t a screw-up, that was the real Marco Rubio. It was part of his pattern.
Marco Rubio already recorded a long history of opposing efforts to deal with illegals from back when he was in the Florida government.
He’s a la Raza Republican who puts his ethnic group first. He’s unfit for high office.