I am greatly troubled that Marco Rubio managed to tarnish what promised to a sterling example of what a son of Cuban parentage could become. It may be too late to redeem him entirely, but for most of the rest of his agenda, save this “path to citizenship” he keeps drumming on, he seemed to be a pretty straightforward exponent of social and fiscal conservatism.
It looks like he was mousetrapped by Chuck Schumer into taking the positions he did on the “legalization” of these undocumented foreign residents, and he seems somehow unable to make a verbal retreat from those positions. It would help Rubio’s case enormously if he would take a much more principled position on DEMANDING the border enforcement actually be put in place and enforced, before any of the other provisions kick in. That should have been his out from the get-go when he was included in the “Gang of 8”.
Fact is, most of the “illegal aliens” in the US NEVER had any intention of becoming US citizens, they were and are trying to capitalize on their unique position of being “illegal but generally not subject to prosecution”, to remain in the US and enjoy its relative benefits (as compared to their home countries).
The rest of his agenda is stuff he can’t do anything about but stand on his soap box and wail. Kinda like the guy that stands behind his wife and yells, “Hold me back!”. He is a lying POS, and I am sorry I contributed to his campaign. It won’t happen again.
The part that troubles me is that the illegals do NOT want to assimilate and accept the American way. 2nd, they plan to vote and turn this country into the next banana republic sh*thole from which they came from.
That one unmentionable piece of Señor Marco’s agenda that you mentioned — the “pathway” to permanent second class American citizens, disqualifies him as a fiscal conservative. He knows the real cost of this traitorous act of his. He knows he is making American citizens permanent tax slaves of the gimme gimme class. So this one act disqualifies him completely. That along with the fact that he lied about being against amnesty and hid the fact that he was pro amnesty from the beginning — yes, even before he ran for the Senate.
By now, you know all this. So how can you imagine that we should consider him for anything. Are you a friend of Rove, JEB!, McCain? See my tagline.