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“If we’re offering the same thing as the Democrats, but with different packaging, what’s the point in having a Republican Party?”
— Marco Rubio, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat from Florida
1 posted on 05/12/2009 11:55:32 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385
Amen!!!

This guy Rubio sounds like the real deal.

2 posted on 05/12/2009 11:57:07 AM PDT by lormand ("Janet Napolitano should resign or be fired." - Congressman John Carter - My Congresscritter)
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To: rabscuttle385

Who cares if a fascist republican or fascist democrat wins?

his high-profile advocacy for President Barack Obama’s stimulus


3 posted on 05/12/2009 11:58:31 AM PDT by DManA
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To: rabscuttle385
“If we’re offering the same thing as the Democrats, but with different packaging, what’s the point in having a Republican Party?”

I question I aked repeatedly during the primary last year. Never did get a goot answer from "republicans".

4 posted on 05/12/2009 11:59:47 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: rabscuttle385

Marco Rubio sounds GREAT. Wait a second, Crist is a Republican..the same guy that was kissing Obama’s ass and basically crying when he won..a Republican like that I want kicked out of the party. I hope Rubio wins


5 posted on 05/12/2009 12:01:02 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rabscuttle385

Florida FReepers are going to have to work twice as hard for Rubio now.


8 posted on 05/12/2009 12:06:22 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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I’m hoping Jeb-— who’s still popular there-— gets behind Rubio as well.


11 posted on 05/12/2009 12:24:39 PM PDT by NYC Republican (This Too Shall Pass- in 8 years.. how much destruction will they create?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Whereas I take a lot of heat for supporting RINOs in states like Delaware and/or New York, etc., I am of the same sentiment here as you:

Florida is NOT a state where we must nominate a RINO to have any chance of winning the seat. Florida is NOT Vermont.

We can do better than Crist, period.


15 posted on 05/12/2009 12:37:55 PM PDT by TitansAFC (The retarded 1950s GOP of today still thinks the public wants statesmanlike losers. We want fighters)
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To: rabscuttle385

I will donate and campaign for Rubio and do everything I can to make sure Crist is not elected.


16 posted on 05/12/2009 12:40:18 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: rabscuttle385

I assume Rubio isn’t married at the hip to ArNold the Global Varmin’ fighter on climate change like Charlie..


19 posted on 05/12/2009 12:55:27 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Just say no to teabaggin’ RINOs like Crist.


22 posted on 05/12/2009 12:59:25 PM PDT by FreepShop1 (www.FreepShop.com)
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To: rabscuttle385

Groan.

Tanning Bed (I had to take the Florida Bar exam three times to pass) Charlie hasn’t been able to solve the property tax, or property insurance issues, and was pretty much AWOL during the latest budget contretemps. So he needs to get the hell out of Tallahassee while the getting is good. His new wife apparently is a bright lights type, so she’d probably fancy being holed up in DC as opposed to Tallahassee, which is hardly the first choice of a cafe society wannabe.

Rubio is a virtual unknown outside of S. Florida and Tallahassee. And he is young. In a state where youth isn’t necessarily a virtue when running in a statewide race.

McCollum, who has had problems prevailing in state-wide races, will probably run too.

The Dems will probably settle on Ms Sink, a retired Bank of America high-roller, and who thus who claim that she has done something in life besides being a career politician. By most accounts a reasonably competent person, she holds some extremely liberal views. She’s married to some other pol whose name eludes me at the moment; suffice it to say it isn’t Sink.

If the GOP ends up going with any of these three, the Dems could well take the seat. Hopefully some electable conservative will emerge who changes the dynamic.


26 posted on 05/12/2009 1:21:16 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: rabscuttle385

I’m a recent addition to the East FL Coast. Where can I sign up to help Rubio without having to go through the RNC?


33 posted on 05/12/2009 1:46:41 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: rabscuttle385

Run Rubio Run. I know he’s running, just had to say it.

Crist thinks he’s God’s gift to the GOP, and has some people eating out of his feminine hand. Rubio is the only one to stop him now, and a Conservative against a RINO in Florida, the conservative has a very good chance to win.


35 posted on 05/12/2009 2:48:00 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Here’s how Rubio can get a flying lead and keep on gliding to touchdown-——stand by Cheney on waterboarding. The public agrees with Cheney on this, but I don’t know anyone else in the GOP or the Bush administration standing fully with him. Rubio can lead the way, and others will quickly follow.


36 posted on 05/12/2009 3:34:47 PM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State business, Red State heart. . . . .Palin 2012----can't come soon enough!)
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To: rabscuttle385
Conservatives

Must

buck Charlie Crist the pro-stimulus metro-sexual greenie anti-drilling RINO
37 posted on 05/12/2009 4:11:00 PM PDT by WOSG (Why is Obama trying to bankrupt America with $16 trillion in spending over the next 4 years?)
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To: rabscuttle385

Now THIS sounds like an interesting matchup with a true conservative vs a squishy Specter wannabe... Remember when GWBush flew to Florida to actually campaign for Crist when he was running for governor and he didn’t want to be seen with Bush and flew to the southern end of the state rather than meet with him.... I think Crist would be a voting disaster in the senate JMHO since I have no say in the election and no vote in the matter, just my take on it... this could be a good primary race in Florida.


40 posted on 05/12/2009 4:32:18 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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I will add if we can get Toomey in PA and Rubio in Florida then that would send a strong message to people like Cornyn, McConnell, etc., that we are not a moderating GOP...


41 posted on 05/12/2009 4:33:57 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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