So much for Rubio.
I don’t know if they caught Boehner’s disease or vice-versa.
Rubio has always been squishy on illegal aliens. He shut up about it when Romney started considering VP candidates, but now the election’s over, here he goes again.
Been saying that since he was elected here. He is a bush clone in this respect and this pandering will garner us nothing at all with the hispanics. Rubio didnt win here by being Cuban, he won because we gave Crist the boot & no viable candidates emerged to defeat him
Came to a conclusion a long time ago. Issues are issues, the laws are the laws, except when a new law suits our elected or our activist judges. The People’s voice (aka Citizens) means nothing to those who are supposed to support the Constitution and serve the People, and the People (aka Citizens) have been branded by the state federals as the enemy. Mind boggling. Pardon me, Jim, if I were dead I would be spinning in my grave, and that would be on a good day. These bad days ... rev up spin in our Founders and those Who Served graves. The up side for our enemies is most of them have yet to fire more shots. When did America surrender? I do want to see the surrender document.
“We” meaning Americans, created this mess with illegals on our Southern border. Our federal and state governments for years looked the other way with a wink and a nod. In many cases encouraged workers to pour into this counrty to take jobs we didn’t want. Businesses and agriculture were happily their willing accomplices.
The “illegals” responded and eventually brought their families and planted roots here. That trickle of workers quickly turned into a flood.
Now, we want them out..... Arrest them, lose the home they bought, leave their possession and everything they worked for, have their kids ripped out of school and deport the bunch....
We clearly have the legal right, they are here illegally, right? We didn’t make them come, they snuck here in the middle of the night, in many cases paid a bounty to a smuggler, risked their life in the desert to be here.
So great PooBah of pure conservative values, now that you have the power and the law on your side, what would you do to solve the issue? You’ve got the guy’s with the guns, tell them what to do.....
Tell me what solution would allow you to look in the mirror each morning, look your children in their eyes, remain a follower of Christ and uphold the constitution.
The issue must be addressed, it’s outcome and resolution has huge political implications for the USA.
Rubio is just showing leadership by tackling the issue. Unfortunately, he teamed with a RINO hack, McLame.....But reality is that a junior senator has to team with a senior senator. I’m sure, most of the senators ran and hid from Rubio when they saw him tackling this issue. Bunch of pansies.....
Rubio is not natural born. He is expressing his true allegiance.
He’s no Conservative, Jim.
That's what I was thinking. He's a Chris Cristie.
There goes his political future and chance at the presidency. People WILL remember this.
7.9% unemployment (before the Oboma layoff tsunami started after the election), and Rubio wants to add millions more people from other countries who'll be looking for work, too?
The Republicans have a death wish. It looks like their wishes are about to come true. The more they "compromise" with liberal principles, the fewer tax payers bother to vote. (They prep for the fall out instead.)
“So much for Rubio.”
In all honesty, wasn’t this somewhat obvious from the beginning?
When Mr. Rubio first emerged as a “conservative contender”, there were a few folks whisperin’, “watch out, that ain’t so!”.
In our enthusiasm to uncover a “conservative Hispanic”, we threw ourselves at him (in a similar way conservatives fell all over Colin Powell, once), without delving deep enough to see what the man was really about.
Prediction: we aren’t going to find many (any?) Hispanics, “conservative” or otherwise, who don’t support a “pathway to citizenship” for the illegals. Just not gonna happen...
We don’t know the details, yet. If illegals have to go through background checks in both the US and their home countries, show continuous residence and steady employment in the US, and are prevented from voting for 10 years, I would be in favor of it.
Ironically, the Puerto Rican US citizens (who can't vote in the island) may well have replaced illegal Mexicans and Central Americans in the hospitality services in Orlando.
In any case, Rubio, who was always soft on illegal coddling, and the FL GOP are now facing a different statewide electorate that demands “a path to...” something for their relatives, friends, lovers, race or whatever from all statewide candidates or face defeat.
Because the GOP-e number one agenda is to win, pragmatism will demand going soft on illegals, prior principles be damned. Like countless previous American principles that have been abandoned by both parties, support for current immigration law and enforcement of the law to protect citizens will be removed from the platform. Sad but true I am afraid. Most likely a bipartisan "comprehensive immigration" bill will pass ASAP taking the issue effectively off the table.
Barry is going to hate losing this wedge issue, though, and social issues can be used to woo Hispanics to some extent, but "free stuff" seems to be what motivates them.
It was a red flag for me when Jeb Bush & all the Florida freepers who talked up Mel Martinez as a "rock solid, wonderful pro-life Cuban conservative who is ANTI-amnesty and WILL NOT WAIVER" in 2004, said the same thing about Marco Rubio in 2010. In both cases, the mere fact the candidate SAID he was anti-amnesty was enough that we should immediately "get behind" his candidacy the moment he announces it, vetting his record is of no importance because freepers who "know him personally" can vouch for what a great guy he is.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...