A fool is someone who will believe a lie irrespective of the fact that all the evidence points to it being a lie. Marco Rubio is, and has consistently been, against open borders and against amnesty for illegal aliens. Some FReepers started defaming Rubio because, when AZ first approved its anti-illegal-immigration law, Rubio stated that, based on press accounts of the law, he was concerned that cops may be stopping people walking down the street or going to church to verify their ID, and he didn’t like the notion of legal immigrants or naturalized citizens having to show their papers on a daily basis for no reason. This was a common concern with the original law (especially among those who had read media coverage of it but not the law itself), and the AZ legislature sought to allay such concerns by amending the law (less than a week after passing the original law) to specify that only when a police officer stopped a person for an infraction would he seek to verify his immigration status. Gov. Brewer signed the amendment into law, and Marco Rubio immediately endorsed the AZ law now that it had been clarified.
So Rubio has consistently opposed open borders and amnest for illegal aliens, and supports the AZ anti-illegal-immigration, yet you choose to believe lies from those who risibly claim that Rubio is pro-illegal immigration based on the false syllogism that since Marco Rubio and Mel Martinez are both Cuban-American (Rubio being a U.S. citizen from birth, while Martinez is a naturalized citizen), and Martinez supported President Bush’s guest-worker proposal that included illegal-alien-amnesty components, then it follows that Rubio must favor amnesty and open borders. Well, the fact that John McCain is a WASP and supported amnesty while Sarah Palin is a WASP is not enough to convince me that Sarah Palin supports amnesty; but then again, I understand the difference between rational thought and a false syllogism.
If you choose to have preconceived notions about Cuban-Americans, go right ahead—you have the right to your bigotry. But when you ignore the facts surrounding a particular Cuban-American conservative Republican who has been very clear on his views on amnesty and open borders, choosing instead to continue to lie about him based on your prejudices against his ancestry, you cross the line between prejudice and defamation.
You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.
We Floridians tend to accept legal immigrants with open arms... except for certain upper 49ers,the financial transplants, who screwed up their own states, and decided to retire here and try to screw up ours...
Rubio’s ethnicity means very little to long term residents and native born Floridians.
He trounced Crist because very few of us “rank and file Republicans” wanted Crist.
He would have won over Meeks, even without Crists insane attempt to advance his political power, because we like Rubio’s positions.
“If you choose to have preconceived notions about Cuban-Americans, go right ahead—you have the right to your bigotry. “
That’s the way to win support. Either that or it’s the idiots way to confirm the fact that he is an ethnic complainer with a chip on his shoulder. The answer speaks itself.