Does a robust foreign policy have to mean multiple, interventionist wars?
But those differences pale when compared to what to do about the so-called “Republican Establishment.” The oldest 21 Senators (that’s everyone 70 or older) have a combined total of 518 years in the Senate. Nine of them are Republicans. From my perspective these guys all need to go, because they are old enough to be immune from anything that they may do as Senators. They have no skin in the game except to “be Senators.” They should be gone on that score alone. In that group are the “sorry assed twins,” Hatch and Lugar who were sworn in on the same day in January of 1977! Of course, the oldest are the RATs like Inouye, Akaka and the Lautencorpse, but my guess is that their voters will keep putting them back until they die, or when the country folds, whichever comes first.
If anyone ever payed attention to Rubio, he was never a Tea Party guy. He is a straight up Reagan Conservative who appealed to the Tea Party. He never was out their openly claiming membership to the TP like Paul is. Rubio made this point at least once on a Hannity interview. Both great guys, but there is a bit of a difference. The fact that the Spectator wrote this shows that many are not paying attention to what is going on with the different elected officials.
I’ll go with Rand Paul.
I also liked his proposal to cut $500 billion from the budget now. (Compare Boehner’s fake “cuts”.)
Marco Rubio is the future of the Republican Party.
He is a conservative, and will attract Latino voters.
I would bet that any republican presidential candidate would give his eye teeth to have Rubio as his running mate.
I am not for nation building around the world.
How about for an island just 90 miles from our shores?
Rubio gets that, and he probably remembers how John Kennedy allowed the slaughter of the Cuban freedom fighters by not providing the promised air cover.
I do live in Florida, and I know a little bit about Marco Rubio. Rubio is a career politician, an establishment Republican who tried (and mostly succeeded) in attracting the TEA Party vote down here in Florida. He is first and foremost a politician. Before running for the Senate, Rubio was speaker of the Florida House and has a long career in Politics. He will, for the most part, do what the leadership asks. He will be a Republican first and conservative if that fits the situation. He will align himself more with Mitch McConnell and the establishment leaders than with Jim DeMint and the TEA Party constitutional conservatives. After a term or two, Rubio will be a major part of the problem in Washington DC.
I will take Paul. Rubio is in the neocon pocket and I believe he would be a problem on immigration too.