Posted on 06/24/2013 1:17:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Sarah Palin criticized Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) by name on Monday for the Senate immigration bill. Palin, in a lengthy Facebook post, blasts the bill as "amnesty," says it won't secure America's borders and compares the Senate's process toward passing it to Democrats' passage of ObamaCare in 2010.
She criticized Rubio and other "amnesty suppoters" for opposing an amendment sponsored by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) that would have required the completion of more of the border fence before illegal immigrants could receive registered provision immigrant status.
"It's beyond disingenuous for anyone to claim that a vote for this bill is a vote for security," Palin wrote. "Look no further than the fact that Senator Rubio and amnesty supporters nixed Senator Thune's amendment that required the feds to finally build part of a needed security fence before moving forward on the status of illegal immigrants who've already broken the law to be here," she wrote. "This bill isn’t about fixing problems; it's about amnesty at all costs."
The Monday post comes just hours after she posted an article highlighting Rubio's 2010 comments that an "earned path to citizenship is basically code for amnesty," deriding him as a flip-flopper. The attacks are a sign that should Rubio run for president, she could emerge as a vocal detractor of his campaign.
Palin, now a Fox News contributor who continues to hold sway with conservative activists, warns that the bill will lead to a conservative revolt against both Democrats and centrist Republicans in the 2014 elections.
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Kudos for excellent HTML skills and for posting a highlighted quote!
manc, you have just bestowed me with my new tagline.
Here in SW Idaho we are a part of the Intermountain West and all of it is pretty much the same. Arid valleys watered by irrigation from the mountain snows, and then beautiful mountain ranges interspersed throughout. A lot of salt of the earth people out here...who will not be cowed or pushed by the likes of the she-man, Obama.
God's speed my friend. Bravo Zulu,
Do you still support instant legalization through registration?
Do you still support a pathway?
Do you still support them remaining here and working?
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Excellent questions. I know where I stand. Anyone who is here illegally should be deported, regardless of the length of time that they have been criminal residents, and this should include their offspring. Anything less is destined for disaster and the end of our country as our Founding Fathers envisioned it.
I agree. And I think it’s important enough a subject, that we should be asking a lot of very pointed questions, and observing who answers them clearly in the manner they should.
Agreed. I believe that I would be a terrible politician, not that it matters, since I would never be elected.
Most of us think along those lines.
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