Posted on 02/03/2016 8:13:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When I posted these clips to Twitter, a reader replied that of course Rubio is a Reagan disciple. He supports amnesty, doesn’t he? Zing.
Fairly or not, a dynamic has developed within the grassroots right online that you can’t be pro-Trump and pro-Rubio. You can be pro-Trump and pro-Cruz because you think America needs a populist, because Washington is so sleazy that it needs to be cleansed with fire. You can be pro-Cruz and pro-Rubio because you think America needs a conservative, because Washington has moved so far left that only a hard push to the right can restore the country’s equilibrium. But you can’t be pro-Trump and pro-Rubio. They’re matter and anti-matter. Trump will deport the illegals, or so he says. Rubio would legalize many. Trump says what he thinks, no matter who he offends. Rubio is scripted and soft-spoken, and styles himself as a uniter. Trump wants to make nice with Putin and disdains nation-building. Rubio loathes Putin and favors aggressive interventionism. Trump represents “white identity politics.” Rubio represents diversifying the party. Up and down the line, substantively and stylistically, you find contrasts. Trump wants to make America great again; Rubio can’t tell you fast enough that he thinks America is the greatest country ever.
What makes these two Rush clips striking is that, for most of the past eight months, to the consternation of many anti-Trump listeners, he’s had nothing but warm words for Trump. Occasionally he’ll scold him for using McConnell-esque lines of attack on Cruz, like calling Cruz a maniac for clashing with other Senate Republicans, but much of the past year has been an exercise in mainstreaming Trump as a legitimate vessel of populist conservative anger despite his many, many prior heresies against conservatism. For most other grassroots righties, if you feel that way about Trump, chances are high that you also think Rubio’s an establishment RINO, an avatar of “business as usual” Republicanism whose Gang of Eight stain can never be scrubbed clean. Not Rush. On the contrary, listen below and you’ll find him blowing up that argument, which is at the absolute core of Trump’s and Cruz’s case against Rubio. Rush, almost singularly, is pro-Trump and pro-Rubio. Huh.
Notably, Rush was a little less pro-Trump than usual today:
And Donald Trump — I don’t know if you’ve forgotten — one thing that I remember is that he went out and again tried to criticize Cruz. Cruz here is the front-runner. Cruz is not the enemy. Hillary Clinton is the enemy. Ted Cruz is not “a nasty guy.” Ted Cruz is not a Canadian. Ted Cruz is none of that. He’s not mean-spirited. Ted Cruz doesn’t want anybody to die in the streets. Nobody’s gonna believe that, especially when you offer that criticism sounding as though it could come from Bernie Sanders.
In a Republican primary, you do not win if you’re going to sound like a liberal Democrat criticizing Ted Cruz. And it wasn’t just health care. How many of you remember (I pointed this out when it happened) Mr. Trump pointing out that you can’t do anything if you can’t make deals, can’t cooperate? Part of his criticism of Ted Cruz is he’s hated; nobody likes him. Trump said, “I can do deals with Harry Reid and Pelosi. I know these people. I like these people. Schumer? I can do deals.” No, no, no, no! We don’t want to do any more deals with these people. We want to beat those people. There are many things that harm Mr. Trump, but not showing up at the debate is not one of them.
As nasty as the Trump/Cruz war in Iowa was this month, both between the candidates themselves and among their supporters online, a Trump/Rubio war would be 10 times as bad precisely because of the stark choice they present. Cruz can be viewed (although he doesn’t have to be) as a compromise between the two — plenty conservative enough for Rubio fans, if not nearly as likable, and populist enough for Trump fans, especially as a contrast to Rubio. A Trump/Rubio race would end up as a proxy war between two radically different visions of the party. Rush would naturally caution listeners from reading too much into any soundbite, especially ones as short as these, but it’s hard not to come away from this thinking that if forced to choose between those two visions, despite his admiration for Trump in various ways, he’s with Rubio. Luckily, thanks to Cruz’s win last night, the odds of any voters having to face that binary choice — at least anytime soon — are slim.
That’s true, Trump seems to have done a good job of exposing them. If he keeps Jebbie from the nomination, he has done a great service.
Just goes to show you that, like natural born citizen, "conservatism" is a state of mind that is yet to be defined to everyone's liking...
Rumors:
gay porn roommate.
Foam parties that some say only had women who were “f.h” (hags)
Caught in a park after hours that was known for drugs and prostitutes.
Foam parties where it’s just a bunch of men with foam in underwear or g strings..
Yes, full throated isn’t the best term to use.
Are you talking about the foam parties in Miami? The ones Alex Jones has been pushing?
I’m no Rubio fan to be sure but those photos are ridiculous unless you just really want to believe that stuff, and then you can make it whatever you want.
The photo they show that is supposed to be Rubio has the face behind another person in the pool and only an ear (which is too small to be Rubio’’s big ear) and some hair is visible. The other is a Chippendale type dancer and that one is so blurry and the face too long, though he is short and has dark hair.
Also there’s information about his friend here: http ://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/marco-rubios-childhood-friend-tied-to-miamis-most-infamous-gay-porn-case-8203133
I don’t like Rubio but the homosexual stuff is just junk in my estimation.
Amnesty is insanity.
It is not conservative to abandon the rule of law and surrender the country to fraudulently documented foreigners.
Trump, OTOH, they figure they have to take out with generalized smears and mockery.
JMHo
Amnesty is national suicide.
The Democrats permanent majority will relegate all those other issues to irrelevance.
You’ll have to give away the country without my vote.
Sorry Rush, the smarmy used car salesman is still dead to me.
I have been listening to Rush since about 1990. Not in the last week though. If he really said that about Rubio I am really disappointed. Then Rush does not really want change in Washington.
Yeah, that was back when Reagan and the country thought doing a good deed for the Hispanics who were already here would be rewarded with something OTHER than being ripped-off by an endless stream of new illegals.
Marco Rubio is a two-faced turncoat who will grant the illegals citizenship and flood this country with more faster than you can say guacamole.
And that is just what is going happen next.
The game was exposed for all who had any remaining doubts in their minds.
The money holders who continue to run this country aground, are all in for Rubio. Here it comes.
Trump did that? I see it as a product of money backed Ted and in the tank media.
The posters here helped it all along, creating unnecessary in fighting, and they are so easy to stop. There really are paid trolls, employed for just this purpose.
I shudder to think what we’d be looking at if not for Trump. A race between Jeb and Rubio is my guess. They’d of long since dispensed of Ted.
LOL!
I’d say creepy on jet fuel. Hopefully all that is factual will be splashed everywhere for everyone to see. There’s also a very interesting article about Cruz’ chumminess with a group of the NYC “gay” crowd. Want that link?
If you read the links I posted you might learn something. Not A. Jones. Rubio hung out with a guy - good buddies for quote some time - who shortly thereafter started a homo porn company using only Latino or whatever the right word is and black homos.
Really, you should read the links. Rubio even said he met his wife at a foam party.
If you read both lengthy articles, it really doesn’t matter if Rubio is in the foam party photo or not. There is enough factual info to damn him 100%.
Is this it, the dreaded GANG OF EIGHT BILL? This is what is worth fabricating crap including homosexual innuendo about Rubio? Doesn’t appear much different than anything else coming out of DC on immigration. Except for Trump who is going to round them up and send them back. LOL, which will NEVER, NEVER happen.
A citizenship path for undocumented immigrants already in the United States contingent on certain border security and visa tracking improvements. The plan provides for permanent residence for undocumented immigrants only after legal immigrants waiting for a current priority date receive their permanent residence status and a different citizenship path for agricultural workers through an agricultural worker program.
Business immigration system reforms, focusing on reducing current visa backlogs and fast tracking permanent residence for U.S. university immigrant graduates with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering or math also known as the STEM fields.
An expanded and improved employment verification system for all employers to confirm employee work authorization.
Improved work visa options for low-skilled workers including an agricultural worker program.
I am more interested in his drug dealing family member and the missing 15 million.
I have read where he won’t say if he has gotten any money from his brother in law but don’t know if that is true.
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