Interest in Rubio is a lot more than just his family heritage. He is an excellent communicator, has conservatism in his ‘gut’ due to his family’s move from Communist Cuba. He knows what a tyrant is, and understands freedom. There are times when he speaks that I hear Reagan circa 1965-1980. Highly articulate, unambiguously conservative, and gifted in clear, direct communication.
He’s got more upside than any politician I have seen since Reagan, if he stays true and stops using liberal speak on immigration. (immigration seems to be the Achilles heel for anyone from Texas or Florida, unfortunately)
I think DC insiders see hispanic, and Florida electoral votes, but base voters (immigration aside) see the articulate leadership we have all been desperate to find.
We need to keep our eyes on the objective. It is ESSENTIAL for the SURVIVAL of America AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION, that the Marxist, Muslim in the White House is defeated and his damage undone.
Romney is far from the ideal solution, but he is far better than having Obama in there for another four years. If he remains, he will remake SCOTUS along the lines of the Warren Court, and even worse.
Rubio is a rock solid conservative, an intelligent guy and he IS Hispanic.
Obama pulled this stunt in order to try and pry enough Hispanic voters who may be sitting on the fence or only luke warm to Romney, into his camp.
Having Rubio as a VP will not only strenghthen the conservative voice in Romney’s Administration, it will get some of those needed votes.
At all accounts, this is going to be a close election and a campaign against an unprinicipled, vicious Chicago street fighter who knows how to play dirty politics, use the power of the incumbency, and marshall mainstream media and the Hollywood eleites to his side.
We need comprehensive immigration reform. We need to close our borders to illegals in the future by taking draconian steps like putting out of businesses those companies which knowingly hire and recruit illegals, PENALIZING those countries - LIKE MEXICO - who are complicit in the violation of our immigration laws, FORBIDDING the use of our social support system and educational establishment to illegals, and dealing QUICKLY with those illegals who come here.
BUT, at the same time we need to be realistic about some things. The reproductive rate among native Americans has fallen so low that it is a threat to our economic life and military security. We need more legal immigrants who want to become prodcutive American citizens - people with a work ethic, not immigrants from countries in western Europe who support the kind of nanny-government socialist, Islamophilic establishments that exist in Britain, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, etc.
That leaves Non-Muslim Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
It is neither reasonable nor fair to believe that we can or should extradite from America young people who knew no environment other than America, who, in many cases, speak English only or English as their primary language, and who regard themselves as Americans and who WANT to be considered Americans, back to some country they have no familiarity with just to punish their parents. We need SOME way to deal with them in such a manner as to provide an expedited road to citizenship.
THAT is a humane and politically SMART way to handle this and WE as Republicans and Conservatives should make sure it done by US, and WE reap the political benefits, NOT the
Marxist Muslim and his leftist comrades.
I disagree: he sounds like just another politician to me, using conservative-speak in a slick way, but I don’t find myself convinced. He’s never worked outside of government, and uses manipulative family-values catch-words to push the amnesty agenda incrementally. Do we really need another slick-talking Trojan horse politician?