Neither Cruze or Rubio are even ‘Constitutionally’ eligible to hold the office of president.... But now the Constitution does not even matter to Rush... Rush use to claim that Cruz follows the ‘original intent’ of the Constitution... But no more, now Cruz is called the ‘consistent conservative’... Lies upon lies upon lies.
> Rush promoting Rubio as a ‘full throated’ conservative?
Since 2011 that’s all they got for their meeting? :-) I agree that “full-throated” sounds excessively positive. I’d interpret it to mean that Rubio has spoken out loudly for conservative positions, and he often has — with the major exception of amnesty. Rush doesn’t include support for amnesty among conservative positions (despite Reagan’s earlier mistake, from which we’ve had plenty of time to learn). Week after week for years he has criticized support for amnesty. One term like “full-throated” can’t counter that.
He has praised Cruz extravagantly as well, and for months he reported with delight how Trump was confounding the media and the Republican establishment. Judged by what Rush has been saying about issues over the years, I think he’d put Cruz first, Rubio second (but oppose him on anything favorable to amnesty), then Trump (over establishment candidates like his supposed buddy Graham). He might prefer Trump to Rubio if he believed Trump’s newfound conservatism were genuine. I doubt that he believes it, though.
I found Rush’s remark about Rubio in context. I don’t know if it’s from an accepted source, but if anyone disagrees with the wording, we can find several sources and compare them.
“I don’t like this idea that Marco Rubio is all of a sudden being labeled as an establishment candidate. I know that Rubio’s got the baggage of that gang of eight bill. And I know that in many people’s minds, he’s got the baggage of wanting to grant the current number of illegals citizenship. I understand that. But I’m here to — Marco Rubio is no moderate Republican centrist. I’m not — I could sit here like anybody else could and try to make explanations for you of why he did the gang of eight. But I’m not even going to try to put words into his mouth. I don’t want to be seen as making excuses. I’m just telling you, I don’t see Marco Rubio as anything other than a legitimate, full-throated conservative. Nobody’s pure and nobody is ever free of making mistakes.”
So in the same passage in which Rush calls Rubio a “full-throated conservative” he criticizes him for being part of the gang of eight.