Posted on 02/02/2014 5:11:23 AM PST by chicagolady
Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) political stock is rated a buy by major Republican fundraisers in Washington, who are bullish on Rubio’s future as a 2016 presidential candidate.
A group of Republican fundraising heavyweights and wise men in Washington’s business community are solidly behind Rubio, and see him not only as someone who could win the White House, but someone they can work with.
The fundraisers include Bill Paxon, a former New York lawmaker who is now a senior adviser at Akin Gump; Dirk Van Dongen, the president of the National Wholesalers Association; and Wayne Berman, a big-time donor with a knack for picking winning candidates in presidential primaries.
All three are a party of the business wing of the Republican Party that has clashed with the Tea Party. Their support for Rubio suggests they seem him as a possible ally going forward.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I hadn’t even thought of Romney again until his name was floated a few days ago. I guess if he is again the choice of the ill-informed primary voters, he will find someone other than Ryan for VP. Still has Jebbie given permission for Romney to run again?
Damaged goods.
His ranting as a member of gang of 8 gurarantees his non-election.
we need a man of principle like Ted Cruz
As a fellow Floridian..I could have not said it better...
I also blame McCain for most of this...Rubio as articulate and sharp as he is, was still a freshman Senator...learning the ropes..
McCain obviously used him and his appeal to push this crap...
I now look at Rubio with a jaded eye...
The last Republican nominee that was not Democrat-lite was Reagan. Bush Junior sometimes talked like a Reaganite, but far too often governed like a progressive.
I used to defend big business until I realized big corporate multinationals were nothing more than socialist fiefdoms.
I only support small to medium size business now. The giant corps(es) are deep in bed with government with it soul killing regulations.
I also can’t stand neocons either. They’re just democrats who like the military and call themselves republicans.
Government needs to be kneecapped. They aren’t on our side, and they use us by using our patriotism against us. They think we are stupid rubes.
So the GOPe plans on taking back the Whitehouse in 2016 with a “amnesty and select the Hispanic for the Whitehouse” strategy. Nice strategy.
Now they just have to figure out how to keep the 20 million odd conservatives that will leave as well as the Dems putting up a woman and the Hispanic mayor of San Antonio on the plantation.
Note to the GOPe. We get it. You only care about the establishment. And that’s why we are taking you down.
Christie Cream, Huck, Ruby, keep em comin cuz last time Romney get the nod cuz the conservatives split their vote 8 ways and Romney won primary after primary as the only RINO.
They want a Hispanic?
That’s fine, but his last name should begin with a capitol C.
CRUZ
Has anyone noticed (of course you have) that the “Insiders” never, ever endorse a conservative?
And he will go nowhere...
Rubio is a non starter along with Ryan and Crispy.
The garbage list gets longer and longer: christie, jebbush, ryan, rubio. The GOPe usually backs one rino and lets the conservative base destroy each other with multiple candidates. Someone like Huckabee is thrown in there to peel off “social” conservatives.
My thought is to try to back a good constitutional conservative in the primaries, but have an option for a third party candidate if the GOPe prevails again. Personally, I would favor Cruz as #1 and Rand Paul as #2. But, if the rino won the GOP race, perhaps Palin would run as the third party choice. The way I look at it this it’s a win-win. We can win if we get a conservative for GOP or we can win by destroying the rino establishment. Now if we get a good conservative and we lose the general, our country is forever lost. Other options such as secession or moving en masse with other conservatives to another country would need to be considered.
With the GOP considering moving up their primary, this might work.
Rubio employs a guy who use to work for a Soros outfit, and AFTER he won the Conservative vote in Florida, he switched his position on immigration and became an amnesty advocate - no wonder the establishment RINO fundraisers like him - “all power to big Wash D.C. power”
GOP outsiders don’t back Rubio.
“I used to defend big business until I realized big corporate multinationals were nothing more than socialist fiefdoms.”
Amen. I have come to the same realization. What the totalitarians have done is fused the veneer of capitalism with big government. It’s just repackaged fascism, and as you have alluded to, it really goes back to the Medieval system of the privileged aristocracy and serfdom.
Right now, the dependent class believes that they are getting their just deserts from the rich (anyone making more money than they are). But, we know that eventually the middle class and the nouveau riche will become poor, and everyone except the top .0001% will suffer.
The size and reach of government
Excessive taxation
Abortion
Illegal immigration and insecure borders
Preserving our Constitutional freedoms
Coalescing on one conservative candidate to take on and take it to the GOPe Paloooka must be done this time.
Last time we had many good conservatives and they put them before liberal moderators who asked impertinent questions and our guys cut each other up.
Lets let the conservatives be invited to debate at Heritage
and some conservative colleges, with no Rino’s invited for a series of debates, and lets have a CPAC type caucus to choose just one of them so we don’t split our vote.
Better to choose among-st conservatives first then spend money fighting eachother while the Romney’s of the party win
with 33% of the primary election vote.
Will we ever learn to play the game?
FTGOP!
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