Posted on 01/13/2017 8:23:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
And so we have come again to a moment of testing for Marco Rubio.
His very public reservations over Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, have quickly put the Florida senator back at the center of attention. But by stepping out and threatening to derail Tillerson’s nomination with a key vote on the Foreign Relations committee, Rubio has also raised old and persistent questions about his core character.
One year ago, many would have predicted that Rubio would be in Washington this week preparing to be sworn in as the nation’s 45th president. The Republican presidential primary had not yet begun, and many believed that Rubio would ultimately win the nomination and defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Instead, the 45-year old lawmaker is now entering his second six-year term as a senator, after reversing earlier statements that he would not return to the Senate if he lost the GOP primary. He had a decidedly mixed first term. In the broadest sense, the first three years were a steady ascent upward, until the immigration bill that Rubio championed in 2013 fell apart that summer. Since then, Rubio has been brought down to earth, first by talk radio and then by Trump, who belittled and humiliated him last year.
And it is the questions about Rubio’s political instincts, maturity, toughness and conviction during that first moment of testing that remain unanswered after last year’s presidential campaign.
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Mario Rubco, purveyor of amnesty for illegal aliens and weapons for jihadists, poodle of John McCain and Flimsey Grahamnesty.
Oh, and ineligible potential usurper.
Marco beating the Clinton Machine....hahahahahahahahaha
"Many" = up to one third of Rubio's immediate family.
Am I missing something? I see nothing presidential whatsoever in Marco Rubio. Mayor of Miami or Hispanic Chamber of Commerce glad-hander? Sure. But president of the greatest country in the history of mankind?
His old lady must be giving him the business.
Thanks for reminding me that Marco is an anchor baby, so never eligible to be POTUS.
the author is writing for Yahoo - this his attempt at Fair & Balanced!
Mario Rubio was born to Cuban nationals.
He inherited the nationality of his foreign national parents at birth.
He is not a natural born citizen.
He is ineligible to be President.
McCain’s lacky.....
Marco Rubio, Mario Rubco, Ruboto, the Memorizer Bunny, ,,,,,,
What a POS he has proven himself to be.
I tried calling his office today, and of course, his “mailbox” is full, and the operator just does not answer the phone.
I hope when DJT becomes president, that he gets the opportunity to completely take him and his cohorts down once and for all. The people deserve so much better than this fool.
a traitor to TEA.
He a petulant wannabe. That grandstanding, far from helping him, made him one of the three amigos. Demanding Tillerson call Putin a war criminal was stupid. Not merely foolish, it was outright stupid. After that little show he should lose his seat on the committee. He needs to join the backbench with the other amatures
RUBIO = MASTER OF POLITICAL MISCALCULATION
Little Marco laid low for awhile...but he’s back with McCain and Lindsay now and feeling important again. Marco was ticked cause Trump dissed Cuban Acosta.
In my house we call Marco Rubio, “Bubbles”.
Bubbles gave his integrity away during the past few years and it’s just gone - he will never get it back.
Summary of article: “Whichever way Rubio votes it will just be a crass politrical calculation.”
Stupid.
Guess what- That could be said of EVERY Senator’s vote with exceptions that could be counted on one hand- for the whole session.
EVERY DEMOCRAT votes for only that crass reason and Yahoo has never mentioned that. Never will.
I was really surprised when he reversed course and decided to run again. I thought he’d done the job the GOPe wanted done well enough they’d reward him with a high-paying lobbyist job. Now he thinks he’s going to be the key man and all center of attention on this vote. But this is where Pence and Priebus come in, to whip him into shape. Give him a chance to strut and crow and then he will either suck it in and vote the way he should, or he can kiss goodbye the prospect of getting anything done in his Senate career bigger than renaming post-offices. They can hold committee assignments and chairmanships and other incentives up, and he will sit nicely and bed.
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