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Coburn endorses Rubio. slams Trump
NewsOK ^ | 2/29/2016 | Chris Casteel

Posted on 02/29/2016 7:39:59 AM PST by Nextrush

Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn on Monday endorsed U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio for the GOP presidential nomination and said Donald Trump was 'perpetuating a fraud'.

Coburn, a Republican who was Oklahoma's most popular political figure when he resigned in early 2015......

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To: RitaOK
it’s always Cruz doing the name dropping. The other guy never mentions Ted Cruz.

As a potential Cruz voter tomorrow, I think this is true.

41 posted on 02/29/2016 8:36:43 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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Coburn has never been anything but an establishment tool.
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42 posted on 02/29/2016 8:40:22 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SoFloFreeper

For me, Rubio is a RINO and the notion of replacing Obamacare with Romneycare is RINO as Coburn advocated.

I don’t worship Trump, don’t want to attack him either.

I happen to support Cruz at this point.


43 posted on 02/29/2016 8:45:17 AM PST by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS:REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
"Until there is a “Conservative Party” this will go on."

Yes. I hope Cruz goes and starts an Independent run as the first step toward an actual Conservative Party. And when Trump gets on his knees and begs forgiveness for funding HARRY REID against the Tea Party, we might let the swivel-headed Donald in.

44 posted on 02/29/2016 8:50:15 AM PST by cookcounty (Why are Trump's poll numbers against a wounded Hillary so AWFUL?)
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To: Theodore R.

I do believe Sessions knows Cruz is a climber and that his connections with the North American Union crowd are virtually still un-exposed.

Did you notice that was the FIRST thing Sessions mentioned in his endorsement of TRUMP. The North American TPP business? Sessions went right to that, even before mentioning the illegal immigration strength of TRUMP.

Sessions said this may be our LAST opportunity. Jeff knows Rubio and Cruz.

He has always sent signals if we could just learn to read the damn things. lol.

Good luck tomorrow. Thx, Rita


45 posted on 02/29/2016 8:54:51 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The term “RINO” is used in so many ways at this point that it has lost distinct meaning. Whether Coburn is or is not a RINO is a red herring. What matters is that there is an ongoing political revolution occurring, against the DC establishment. And politicians are being forced to pick sides.

Coburn has made his choice. He is siding with the DC establishment, against the people. You are right. Just because he picked someone other than Trump doesn’t make him a RINO. It makes him an antagonist to the uprising against DC.

And this has nothing to do with whether someone “loves” Trump. This goes way beyond Donald Trump. Far from being a personality-driven movement, this is a movement that has been smoldering in the background for decades. For whatever reason, and there are a host of possible ones, Trump is the chosen candidate for this movement against DC. But it isn’t because of love of Trump. It is because of a love of this country.

I, for one, don’t really like Trump. But I would follow him without hesitation, because of the millions of other fed-up people who are behind him.


46 posted on 02/29/2016 8:55:03 AM PST by jjsheridan5
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To: dragonblustar
Steve Forbes Backs Trump, Bashes Rubio
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/02/28/steve-forbes-backs-trump-bashes-rubio/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

This headline is misleading.

Steve Forbes has, to my knowledge, not endorsed Trump. The link you posted was just about Forbes' making some positive remarks about Trump and his tax plan. That's a far cry from an endorsement.
47 posted on 02/29/2016 8:57:08 AM PST by Persephone Kore
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To: Nextrush

Coburn dancing to the Potomac 2 Step. Rubio, the amnesty pimp? Lay off the psychotropic drugs Tom!


48 posted on 02/29/2016 8:57:33 AM PST by M1911 Colt .45 ACP (John Moses Browning ~ TRUE American Hero! ~ TRUMP 2016!!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I get your point. I even agree with it.

But, nevertheless, those of us familiar with Tom Coburn have been extremely disappointed in him for a very long time, long before his retirement.

His critics have commented today only because of his noisy endorsement of Rubio today. Coburn’s choice is just one more example of why we are disappointed. He simply proves once more, that he fell in with the RINO agenda.


49 posted on 02/29/2016 9:03:11 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: napscoordinator

You again? Watch the Texas results.


50 posted on 02/29/2016 9:17:57 AM PST by austingirl (Cruz 2016)
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To: xzins

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Coburn despises Ted Cruz.

Cruz blocked the gang of eight’s amnesty bill, which Coburn strongly supported.
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51 posted on 02/29/2016 9:18:41 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: RitaOK

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Jeff is so onto his own FBI file.

He gave Cruz several strong shout-outs, but then got weak-kneed.

Endorsement of amnesty man Trump says much about what we don’t know about Sessions.
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52 posted on 02/29/2016 9:18:41 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: All

Rubio?
I havn’t given to Citizens Against Government Waste a long time ago, because Coburn is the head of it.
He is, like so many of our aristocrats: lost, lost, lost.
What is actually happening is unknown, unknown, unknown.


53 posted on 02/29/2016 9:25:24 AM PST by veracious
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To: Nextrush

I have a National Bird for the Uni-Party...the Dodo bird. Yeah it’s extinct...that’s the point. Now you are probably thinking. What about the Gooney Bird? Nah, that one was taken by Hillary
Freegards
LEX


54 posted on 02/29/2016 9:28:11 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: austingirl

“Coburn supports GOPe amnesty boy Rubio? Another former conservative reveals his Uniparty membership.”


Agreed. Very disappointing. But, then again, is anyone disappointed that a snake acts like a snake?


55 posted on 02/29/2016 9:34:57 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: editor-surveyor

I think we all gave Cruz a strong shout out, in the beginning. He was slick as molasses for a pretty long run.

You’re speaking to most all former Cruz supporters. A lot of us sent him to the US Senate, enthusiastically.

But, I’ll just tell you, Sundance was a Cruz supporter too, but his work on facing the North American Union connections with Ted and Heidi, brought Sundance around and a LOT of us around, as well.

That TPA vote of his was as slick as snot. Yes, Cruz got to vote against the damn thing, but that came after he facilitated it, on his fine reputation as a flag waver and Constitutionalist, and with the Bible clinched in his teeth.

Now that was a zinger against the future of the USA. I didn’t like it then and I didn’t accept his excuses either, laying it at the feet of McConnell, while shutting out the screaming against it from Jeff Sessions in his danged ear, loud and clear.

Who does that?


56 posted on 02/29/2016 9:37:14 AM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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To: Nextrush

Conservative US Senator Ben Sasse dismayed by non-conservative Donald Trump’s apparent easy path through a divided field, called today for an independent race by a conservative candidate. Read his statement here::

https://www.facebook.com/sassefornebraska/posts/561073597391141

Unless something big happens soon, I’m with Ben Sasse.


57 posted on 02/29/2016 9:43:02 AM PST by cookcounty (Why are Trump's poll numbers against a wounded Hillary so AWFUL? Hello? No answer?)
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To: Nextrush

never bought coburn as a conservative. made him as gope when he stepped aside and voted for big ag on SB510, the obamacare for food bill.


58 posted on 02/29/2016 9:43:39 AM PST by dadfly
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To: RitaOK

I believe Cruz even went so far as to say that Jeff Sessions just doesn’t understand it all that well. What an impudent pup.


59 posted on 02/29/2016 9:46:10 AM 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: austingirl

Lol. You are a trip. Watch the texas results? Who cares. You watch the other 10 states.

Trump 2016!


60 posted on 02/29/2016 9:46:11 AM PST by napscoordinator
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