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GOP insiders back Rubio in 2016
The Hill ^ | February 1,2014 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 02/01/2014 12:13:09 PM PST by Hojczyk

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To: warchild9

PLEASE DON’T BE CORRECT ON THIS ONE


61 posted on 02/01/2014 1:06:27 PM PST by brooklyn dave
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To: Hojczyk

So Rubio is the choice of the Vichy Republicans. Surprisingly not surprising.


62 posted on 02/01/2014 1:12:49 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: Proud2BeRight

Then they win either way!

That treat would only work if you assume they want to win.

If their goal is to elect a liberal RINO or a liberal Democrat (which it is) then that treat is worthless.


63 posted on 02/01/2014 1:25:37 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: ElkGroveDan

Donations to Karl Rove’s Groups Drop 98% after Targeting Tea Party


64 posted on 02/01/2014 1:25:39 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Hojczyk

This must he why the Gop is pushing immigration. They think all Hispanics will vote for Rube.


65 posted on 02/01/2014 1:31:41 PM PST by DirtyPigpen (Semper Fi)
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To: Hojczyk
major Republican fundraisers in Washington

Are they the same ones who gave him the $3 million in donations right after the Gang of 8 Amnesty passed the Senate?

The pro-Amnesty factions have bought and paid for many of these politicians.
66 posted on 02/01/2014 1:34:08 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Hojczyk

We have 2 more years of these trial balloon articles for this guy or that one or some other before the actual 2016 election cycle actually begins.

Already, we have had recent articles that Romeny, Huckabee, Palin is the frontrunner, but Christie is still salvageable.


67 posted on 02/01/2014 1:38:35 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: warchild9
/I’ve called the last three correctly
//I’ll be offering wagers after the end of the year the end of the year


In February 2008, I posted that if McCain did manage to get the nomination, the question would be: would he lose by more or fewer electoral votes than Dole?

He got the nomination and got a few more EVs than Dole, but he still lost by a 2-1 margin.

I didn't even have to call Miss Cleo before I made that prediction.
68 posted on 02/01/2014 1:44:25 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Hojczyk; caltaxed; ElkGroveDan; Celtic Conservative; freedomfiter2; EDINVA; ComputerGuy; ...

The education section of Senator Marco Rubio’s biography:

Rubio attended South Miami Senior High School and graduated in 1989. He then attended Tarkio College for one year on a football scholarship from 1989 to 1990, before enrolling at Santa Fe Community College (now Santa Fe College). He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida in 1993, and his J.D. degree cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law in 1996.[10] Rubio stated that his education resulted in $100,000 of student loans, which he paid off in 2012.[11]

While studying law, he interned for U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio

The education section of Senator Ted Cruz’s biography:

Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[26] and later graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston as valedictorian in 1988.[11] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group called the Free Market Education Foundation where Cruz learned about free-market economic philosophers such as Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, Frédéric Bastiat and Ludwig von Mises.[20] The program was run by Rolland Storey and Cruz entered the program at the age of 13.[18]

Cruz graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1992.[2][5] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel and won the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[27] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton).[27] Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship, making him Princeton’s highest-ranked debater at the championship.[28][29] Princeton’s debate team later named their annual novice championship after Cruz.[28]

Cruz’s senior thesis on the separation of powers, titled “Clipping the Wings of Angels,” draws its inspiration from a passage attributed to President James Madison: “If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” Cruz argued that the drafters of the Constitution intended to protect the rights of their constituents, and the last two items in the Bill of Rights offered an explicit stop against an all-powerful state. Cruz wrote: “They simply do so from different directions. The Tenth stops new powers, and the Ninth fortifies all other rights, or non-powers.”[24][30]

After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Harvard Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1995 with a Juris Doctor.[2][31] While at Harvard Law, Cruz was a primary editor of the Harvard Law Review, and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[5] Referring to Cruz’s time as a student at Harvard Law, Professor Alan Dershowitz said, “Cruz was off-the-charts brilliant.”[12][32][33][34][35][36] At Harvard Law, Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.[37]

Cruz currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Texas Review of Law and Politics.[37][38]

Cruz served as a law clerk to J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in 1995[4][37] and William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States in 1996.[2] Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[39]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz


69 posted on 02/01/2014 1:46:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Hojczyk
‘16 is just to soon. He must live down his amnesty support. He has backed away from it but he needs to show he will not do it in the future. Give us time to reassess Marco. Forget Ryan and Jeb as well.
70 posted on 02/01/2014 1:52:37 PM PST by amnestynone (Lindsey Graham is feckless, duplicitous, treacherous, double dealing backstabbing Corksucker.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

I believe his chances are Zero. We are tired of ethic experiments—we want an old white guy (maybe an old black dude) Some one who will inspire confidence and stability. An old school guy without all the fancy elements. A guy who can be trusted. No Experiments just a firm hand on the tiller. BUT who that guy is—I just can’t say? No more Bush! I believe who ever it is—will be a guy who is governor of a succesful state—a guy with no scandals!


71 posted on 02/01/2014 1:54:07 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A debate between Cruz and the Hildabeast would be a sight to see.


72 posted on 02/01/2014 1:54:35 PM PST by painter ( Isaiah: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: tennmountainman
How quickly things change.

Recall all the bandwagon crashes in the spring of 2012. The frontrunners seems to never maintain more than 3 or 4 weeks, the CRASH!
73 posted on 02/01/2014 1:55:06 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll take Cruz.

The RINOs can have Rubio.


74 posted on 02/01/2014 1:55:50 PM PST by tennmountainman (Just Say No To Obamacare)
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To: Hojczyk

It is starting to look like I will sit out this coming election-as far as voting for President goes.


75 posted on 02/01/2014 2:01:59 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Hojczyk
They just keep pushing the RINOs out. Rubio showed his true colors and they are not Red White and Blue, but Red white and Green


76 posted on 02/01/2014 2:04:45 PM PST by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Cruz was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics”

In regards to Cruz:

He actually understands economics, he’s eloquent, and persuasive. Which is why he’s the most feared man in America by the Left and by the cronyist wing of the GOP. And I really believe they will spend every last cent they have to keep him out of office if that’s what it takes.


77 posted on 02/01/2014 2:05:46 PM PST by CowboyJay (Cruz'-ing in 2016!)
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To: Hojczyk; All

I will not vote for Hispanic Amnesty Loving Racist Marco Rubio

Illegal Alien Amnesty is Anti American Bigotry. Will not vote for any Amnesty Liberal


78 posted on 02/01/2014 2:08:23 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (A Theory is not a Fact....It is not called the "Fact of Evolution")
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To: CowboyJay

Gov. Sarah Palin has no graduate degree, yet they’re, if anything, even more afraid of her than any other conservative figure. Why is that, do you think?


79 posted on 02/01/2014 2:13:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: Hojczyk

You have GOT to be kidding.

We need someone strong & conservative, and maybe someone not obvious yet because as it stands now Hildabeast wins in a cakewalk.


80 posted on 02/01/2014 2:15:15 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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