Puke. This RINO slime has wreaked havoc for years but gone under the radar of freepers, conservative organizations, and Tea Party groups. Ros-Lehtinen has moved further and further left over the years and aside from being nominally "pro-life" and anti-Castro regime, she's basically a defacto RAT at this point. She's MUCH worse than numerous other RINOs that freepers have been screaming about for years.
Impy mentioned looney Walter Jones in a recent post, you can add Ros-Lehtinen to him on the list of "worst RINOs in the House who aren't from some heavily Dem state like New York"
Can we PLEASE find some "rising young hispanic conservative star" (one with a proven record as an ACTUAL Republican) to take her out in the primary?
She’s been in office more than half her life, first elected when she was 30, now she’s 63. Almost 7 years in the FL legislature and 26 years in Congress.
Her first election was important in that she finally took a district represented by the old-line Democrat leftist Claude Pepper (whom himself had been in office on and off for nearly 60 years) and capitalized on it becoming the first official Cuban GOP district (and she was also the first Latina of either party elected) upon the special election following his death.
Curiously, Ros-Lehtinen will have held that House seat as long as Pepper did as of January 2016 (26 years, 4+ months), so this district has had only 2 members in 53 years. It’s well past time she retired.
Just so. She is THE under the radar RINO, one of the worst honestly and almost never mentioned while people far to her right get trashed for comparatively slight missteps. And her voting record is only getting worse. She makes fellow SOFLO Cuban RINO Carlos Curbelo look good. So she has a little Chaz Bono or Bruce Jenner for a kid and pleasing Jr. is a political priority for her, eh? Super.
Dem trending seat and I think the new COURT FORCED dem remap made it worse (not positive), I fear we will lose it when she goes, for all the difference that will make. Near I can tell she last had a primary in 2002 and she won it with 87%. I'm not at all optimistic she can be beaten but I wish someone would at least try for crap sake.