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Is Marco Rubio the GOP’s Bill Clinton?
The Daily Beast ^ | December 10, 2015 | Eleanor Clift

Posted on 12/10/2015 3:45:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Clinton triangulated his way to victory against the Republicans in 1992. But can Rubio pull off a similar trick within his party to secure the nomination?

In more ordinary political times, Marco Rubio’s position on abortion, opposing any exceptions, not even for rape and incest, would be a career-ender on a national ticket. But in an election cycle where more rules have been broken than kept, Rubio has found a way to wiggle out of the most extreme interpretation of what he said in the GOP’s first presidential debate, and it goes like this:

My preference is the position of my church. I have supported in the past and would support in the future bills with exceptions. I want to save as many lives as possible.

It sounds a lot like Democrat Bill Clinton circa 1992 struggling to center his party in the mainstream on cultural issues. Abortion should be “safe, legal and rare,” Clinton said, a declaration that signaled he was a New Democrat who could reorient his party to win nationally....

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: abortion; billclinton; dondi2016; marcorubio; rubio
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1 posted on 12/10/2015 3:45:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, Clintoon is WAY richer from graft and corruption.


2 posted on 12/10/2015 3:47:16 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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But does he have a boat?


3 posted on 12/10/2015 3:47:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubio is a rapist?


4 posted on 12/10/2015 3:48:28 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clintoon has a bigger swimming pool with which to contain Rubio’s boat.


5 posted on 12/10/2015 3:48:37 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No because Rubio isn’t a conservative.


6 posted on 12/10/2015 3:49:54 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You mean a lying scumbag?


7 posted on 12/10/2015 3:51:05 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Islamophobia? It is not irrational to fear evil)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clinton i hate to say has twice the IQ as Rubio. Somewhere around 70.


8 posted on 12/10/2015 3:51:22 PM PST by gwgn02
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Is Marco Rubio the GOP’s Bill Clinton?"

Well, that would depend on what the meaning of the word "is" is.

9 posted on 12/10/2015 3:52:26 PM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hate to say it, but when I read about the possibility of multiple women involvement—that’s the first thought that came to mind. Clinton.


10 posted on 12/10/2015 3:53:45 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Paladin2; All

You have to understand who owns Marco Rubio. CESAR CONDA. This is a good article about him everyone should read.
Conda, btw, is Paul Ryan’s mentor and got him into DC politics. Two open border/bad trade trojan horses. One in the house, one in the senate...how about the WH?

The Rubio Deception
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3029771/posts?page=28


11 posted on 12/10/2015 3:53:51 PM PST by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

Score!


12 posted on 12/10/2015 3:54:13 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (I propose a Muslim "Rat Out Your Family Day". Make it sorta like a gun buy back.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd

“Is Marco Rubio the GOP’s Bill Clinton?”

More Hubert Humphrey


13 posted on 12/10/2015 3:55:58 PM PST by Chickensoup (speechless)
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To: gwgn02

You’re right. Rubio had a 2.1 grade point. Funny thing is, I thought they were talking about Rubio’s zipper problem when I read the headline.


14 posted on 12/10/2015 3:56:46 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God,,,, We can elect Ted Cruz!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nah, Republicans can’t get away with 1/10 of what the Bent One did.


15 posted on 12/10/2015 3:58:23 PM PST by FourPeas (Tone matters.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought this was about the affairs.


16 posted on 12/10/2015 3:58:42 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well it is said Marco screws around a lot. I don’t know if he likes cigars.


17 posted on 12/10/2015 4:08:34 PM PST by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, he does’nt rape women.


18 posted on 12/10/2015 4:13:11 PM PST by ully2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Eleanor Clift? I thought her hate would have consumed her into hell by now.


19 posted on 12/10/2015 4:21:47 PM PST by capydick ("If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Eleanor Clift is part of the “Mississippi Treatment” where Dems help the GOPEE dump the Revolutionary Trump. Glorify Rubio a little and lay the groundwork for Jeb, or Rubio.

They (the MS styled Democrat media) have time to do this until they get rid of not only TRUMP, but Cruz better see it coming his way after that, if he lets them succeed with TRUMP. Rubio too, if he doesn’t play ball with our plantation owners.

We are on a plantation now, you know, if this succeeds against TRUMP.


20 posted on 12/10/2015 4:28:50 PM PST by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming)
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