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Marco Rubio Thinks Jeb Bush Will Ultimately Come Around On Immigration
www.BusinessInsider.com ^ | Mar. 5, 2013 | Benjy Sarlin

Posted on 03/08/2013 7:57:33 PM PST by SoConPubbie

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“I thought about that issue a lot and [went] back and forth on it before I signed on to my principles and I just concluded that it’s not good for the country in the long term to have millions and millions of people who are forever prohibited from becoming citizens,” Rubio told reporters on his way to a Senate vote. “That hasn’t worked out well for Europe.”

Responding to a question from TPM, Rubio said he did not think Bush’s surprise move would make it harder to convince conservatives to accept an eventual path to citizenship.

“I don’t think so — we have what we have,” Rubio said.

But Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), another member of the bipartisan Senate group working on a bill, expressed serious concern Tuesday about Bush’s rightward turn — especially given his prominent reputation as an immigration reformer.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 03/08/2013 7:57:33 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie; VinL; ex-snook; sport; INVAR; ejonesie22; PieterCasparzen; Colonel_Flagg; Washi; ...

The Real Marco Rubio Ping!


2 posted on 03/08/2013 7:58:17 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: SoConPubbie

“Bush’s rightward turn”

What the hell. That’s an oxymoron?


3 posted on 03/08/2013 8:01:24 PM PST by Viennacon
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To: SoConPubbie

Hey, Marco! I really don't give a flip what Jebbie Bush thinks about on anything.


4 posted on 03/08/2013 8:02:26 PM PST by Jane Long
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To: SoConPubbie

jebbushvomit


5 posted on 03/08/2013 8:09:03 PM PST by upchuck (Waiting, hoping, begging for the straw. Time to bring pent up frustration to fruition.)
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To: upchuck

National interest in Jeb Bush O%


6 posted on 03/08/2013 8:12:12 PM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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To: Liz; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; La Lydia; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; ...
RE “I thought about that issue a lot and [went] back and forth on it before I signed on to my principles and I just concluded that it’s not good for the country in the long term to have millions and millions of people who are forever prohibited from becoming citizens,” Rubio told reporters on his way to a Senate vote. “That hasn’t worked out well for Europe.”

Great idea Rub, we better to make sure that America has a permanent government dependent Democrat voting class that always goes for raising taxes on those who make it better than them, to pay for stuff for themselves and their families. Oh, and now they LOVE the idea of gay marriage and free abortions

What could go wrong with that???.

If the GOP is down to Rub and Bush in 2016 then expect the same success we got (and expected for me) from Romney and Newt in 2012 race.

7 posted on 03/08/2013 8:15:47 PM PST by sickoflibs (O's sequester Apocalypse tour just proved why we need the 2nd amendment more than ever NOW!)
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To: SoConPubbie

“An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely...”

This is what is to be aware of, but not feared.


8 posted on 03/08/2013 8:16:22 PM PST by logitech (Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
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To: SoConPubbie

Does it really matter? Jeb Bush hs as much chance of being nominated as I do.


9 posted on 03/08/2013 8:17:26 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: SoConPubbie

No more Bush’s.

Their beans even suck.


10 posted on 03/08/2013 8:17:45 PM PST by hadaclueonce (Forget Mexico. Put the border fence around California.)
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"...it’s not good for the country in the long term to have millions and millions of people who are forever prohibited from becoming citizens,” Rubio told reporters...

So what's the solution, Senator Rubio? Just declare all these lawbreakers legal? You want us to throw our laws out and acquiesce to the demands of foreigners who don't love this country, and who mostly have no desire to assimilate into this culture?

Sure. Why not. Let's just do like Europe, and subordinate our native culture to that of our third world 'betters', losing everything that makes this country what it is, in the bargain. Do you honestly consider that "good for the country", Senator?

11 posted on 03/08/2013 8:22:53 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SoConPubbie

“. . . I just concluded that it’s not good for the country in the long term to have millions and millions of people who are forever prohibited from becoming citizens,”

What an ignorant statement!

Those millions, Rubio, are criminals who have no right to even be in the United States, let alone be citizens.

What you are seeing now is the genesis of the coming Republican electoral massacre of 2014. What Republican conservative voter will have any interest in supporting elitists like Rubio, Graham, and their ilk who throw aside any respect for the law to pander to groups like the illegal alien bloc.

For every one hispanic vote they gain, they will lose four of the once reliable and principled conservative, law-respecting base. You can only stab your own troops in the back so many times.

Rubio’s time has come, and has now gone. The voters have turned away from the stupid debate between Rubio and the latest Bush over who can pander the most while lying the best. The Republican consultants and “strategists” have already set up the massive defeat that is coming. Of course, when it’s over they’ll still say it’s because the party didn’t pander enough to hispanics.


12 posted on 03/08/2013 8:25:17 PM PST by oldbill
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To: Tennessee Nana; AuntB; Liz; La Lydia; R; NFHale; Gilbo_3; Impy; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; ...

While I find POTUS campaign politics annoying this early out it was Impy who suggested in a ping to me my ultimate dream ticket for 2016, and I really liked it.

Scott Walker-Ted Cruz (Cruz was born in Canada.)

Now that would be one hell of a fighting team.

That is why it will not happen, it will probably be Bush-Rubio or Rubio Christie.


13 posted on 03/08/2013 8:26:39 PM PST by sickoflibs (O's sequester Apocalypse tour just proved why we need the 2nd amendment more than ever NOW!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Yes, and Marco would know about that because birds of a feather flock together and both he and JEB have been amnesty lovers for years.


14 posted on 03/08/2013 8:29:11 PM PST by Waryone (Palin - West 2016)
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To: Waryone

From the beginning of Rubio’s so-called rise in the Republican party, I have not seen anything that would make me want to vote for him. I still don’t. He just doesn’t impress me. After I hear him speak, I still wonder where he stands.


15 posted on 03/08/2013 8:43:27 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: oldbill

Yep. What you said. Don’t they have well paid consultants that are supposed to tell them this stuff?


16 posted on 03/08/2013 8:52:48 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: oldbill

Yep. What you said. Don’t they have well paid consultants that are supposed to tell them this stuff?


17 posted on 03/08/2013 8:52:50 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: RIghtwardHo

“Does it really matter? Jeb Bush hs as much chance of being nominated as I do”

If it comes down to between you and Jeb you can count on my vote. :=)


18 posted on 03/08/2013 8:54:25 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: sickoflibs

“Scott Walker-Ted Cruz”

Yes, that would be a dream team... a true blessing for our side.


19 posted on 03/08/2013 9:08:17 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~)
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To: hadaclueonce

I’d vote for another Bush if he were conservative. Jeb Bush is NO conservative, nor his brother, not his dad. Maybe someday one will be born in the family.


20 posted on 03/08/2013 9:19:22 PM PST by tsowellfan
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