Posted on 05/21/2015 8:19:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
[Note from Scott Ott: The presidential primary process doesn't help us to decide who's qualified to bear the party standard, and to serve as chief executive. It's just our way of crushing the hopes and dreams of anyone who dares poke head from hole. Because you already know all of the reasons why every candidate, and potential candidate, has no right to expect the nomination, I'm going to write an utterly one-sided series on why each one should get it.]
Today’s nominee: Senator Marco Rubio. (If you’re concerned that I’m not providing fair and balanced analysis, I’m sure the folks in the comment section will compensate for my deficiency.)
I just read Sen. Marco Rubio’s American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone, which combines stories of struggling Americans with often-innovative proposals to address our most besetting challenges in education, social welfare, health care, immigration, Social Security, Medicare and more. The book is worth the brief time it takes to read, even if you favor some other candidate for president.
Why Marco Rubio Should Be the Republican Nominee
1. Positive Vision for “A New American Century”: Republicans should not underestimate the value of a voice that stirs the human heart and reminds us of what we’re all about, and what we can be.
Rubio clearly loves this country, and what it stands for, and conveys that with infectious optimism. Perhaps as importantly, he has applied a lot of time and effort to learning how to craft creative, but workable, solutions to her most challenging problems. He presents these in a forward-looking way. Rubio ends his American Dreams with a flourish…
“There is no time in our history I would rather live in than right here, right now. For we are on the eve of a new American Century. The most prosperous and secure era in our nation’s history is within our reach. All that is required of us has to do what those who came before us did: confront our challenges and embrace our opportunities. And when we do, we will leave for our children what our parents left for us: the most exceptional nation in all of human history.” — “American Dreams,” by Marco Rubio, p. 191
2. A family story that personifies the American Dream: A child of immigrant parents, Rubio speaks passionately of how his Mom and Dad worked low-wage jobs to provide a better future for their children. They did it in the nation that invented the idea that your status at birth is no limitation on your ultimate altitude or potential for accomplishment. His devotion to “equality of opportunity” is the proper antidote for Leftist “equality of outcome” venom. The American story, in a very real sense, is his family’s story, and he never forgets, nor allows others to forget it.
3. Political Experience: I previously noted that the outsider perspective of candidates like Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson can prove useful, or at least refreshing. Yet there’s something to be said for someone who has wallowed in Washington for a while, and understands how things work in that Orwellian Animal Farm. Rubio, who has a JD in law from the University of Miami, served in local politics, and later became speaker of the Florida House, before election to the U.S. Senate. He knows how to run, he knows how to win, and perhaps as importantly, he’s had some time to stumble and find out what doesn’t work.
4. A Strong America Makes a Safer World: Rubio unashamedly professes America’s exceptionalism, and understands that weakness invites tyrants to flex their muscles and overstep their bounds. He’s critical of President Obama for reaching out to enemies while shutting out friends, and for Obama’s lack of a strategic approach to the use of American military power. Understanding that patriotism and American exceptionalism don’t amount to jingoism or imperialism, but rather to a peace plan beyond the dreams of the UN, makes Rubio well-prepared to step into the role of commander in chief.
5. Solutions-Driven Approach to Governance: Rubio’s book consists of a barrage of concrete, detailed proposals for addressing education, health care, immigration, entitlements, and more. I’m not suggesting you’ll agree with all of his proposals, only that he has invested significant effort into laying out a plan that paves the way for the “New American Century.” He’s young, but not a naive debutante. He has gone far beyond talk, to enlist co-sponsors on both sides of the aisle. He rightly critiques Leftists for clinging to failed approaches that ignore the rapid change in technology, communication and global commerce which continues apace even as Democrats like Hillary Clinton still dip into the FDR-LBJ punchbowl of fermented ideas.
6. Broad appeal: While Rubio has the reputation of a rising Tea Party darling, he doesn’t carry the taint of “fringe.” He’s socially conservative, yet believes that questions like same-sex marriage should be decided at the state level, even if he disagrees with the outcome reached by any particular state. He’s young, but he’s prudent, unlikely to make wacky statements in the heat of the moment, but less likely to veer from his core principles simply to please a special interest group. Obviously, he’s made, and will make, mistakes, but all in all, his demeanor, ideas and communication skills should attract adherents from across the Republican spectrum.
7. Politics is Personal: If not for the human stories which animate Rubio’s book, it would be a wonky collection of policy proposals, likely to be ignored. But in his writing and public speaking, Marco Rubio never forgets the real stories of people still fanning the fire of the American dream. He connects with their struggle as they turn a shoulder to a gale-force government that seems hell-bent on extinguishing that flame. In a way that few recent Republicans have, Marco Rubio gets it: politics is personal.
Gang of 8. Disqualified.
Go ahead and nominate a cheap labor importer.
I won’t vote for that.
I am not voting for him ... and I am not giving any reasons Scott Ott.So stick that in your fedora and smoke it
Freegards
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Rubio’s ideas on immigration will certainly help certain large corporations get cheap labor, at least until the Democrats and their Republican groupies force the minimum wage into the stratosphere.
Rubio is (with one exception) not a terrible candidate. However, Amnesty is a deal-breaker. I would not vote for him even if he claimed to have changed his mind (again) on rewarding criminals for their illegal actions.
If Rubio is the nominee, I am voting third party. In the long run, Rubio with Amnesty will do as much damage to our country as letting Hillary take the White House and run us into the ground more quickly with her far left policies. No, thank you.
Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~
You'll get no dispute with me on that.
Democrats are very good at picking reliably liberal Supreme Court Justices. Republicans historically bat about 50/50.
George W. Bush gave us Alito (a fairly reliable conservative) and Roberts (a disappointing moderate working his way to liberal). George H.W. Bush gave us Clarence Thomas (a reliable conservative) and David Souter (a liberal). Reagan gave us Scalia (a reliable conservative), O'Connor (a moderate) and Kennedy (a moderate sometimes and a liberal other times, mostly depending on whether homosexual rights are at issue).
The problem began in the late 1930s and early 1940s, when Roosevelt finally managed to pack the court with socialists intent on expanding the federal government. The problem became permanent in the mid 1960s with the Abington School District v. Schempp case (in which the Court decided that the First Amendment prohibits reading the bible in school) and the Griswold v. Connecticut case (in which the Court decided to stop pretending to even read the Constitution and instead to rely on emanations and penumbra).
So now, the Constitution says whatever the hell 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices say it says. A lot of our fundamental rights, including the 2nd Amendment, are now hanging by a thread of 5 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices.
My point is that if Hillary gets elected, there is no chance whatsoever that Scalia or Kennedy will be replaced with anyone other than a hard core leftist who will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years. If Cruz or Walker (or maybe Rubio) gets elected, then we have at least a 50/50 chance.
Ruth Buzzie Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer will also be in their 80s in 2016, so the next president could replace them as well, though my money is on them both retiring next year so Obama can replace them.
If they don't retire before Obama leaves and Hillary replaces them, it will just mean two old hard core leftists will be replaced with two young hard core leftists. That is bad, but would not shift the current balance of the Court. If Cruz gets to replace them along with Scalia and Kennedy, then there is at least a 50/50 chance of a solid conservative majority on the Court for the next generation.
Ill vote for Walker Cruz Rubio...some folks conveniently forget Rubio walked away from the original plan and came out against the plan offered by WH/and the rest. At that point his family had to be protected by Gov security due to threats. On all other issues he has been fine.
I got this in an email so....for what it is worth. •LARGEST INSANE ASYLUM IN THE WORLD•
Interesting that the LA times did this. Lou Dobbs reported this on CNN and it cost him his job. The only network we would see this on would be FOX. All the others are staying away from it. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican this should be of great interest to you! Just One State - be sure and read the last part......try for 3 times. This is only one State.
From the L.A. Times.
•1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes. This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
•2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
•3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
•4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
•5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
•6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
•7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
•8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
•9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
•10. In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish. (There are 10.2 million people in L.A. County.)•(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)•
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and NewYork) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
From the L.A. Times.
Got a link?
Nope came to me in an email passed on from a friend. I did a start page search came up with these listings.
There’s no link because it’s not true.
Argue with this writer at the source. "The FutureoftheRepublic.com"
I’m just informing you...the person who posted the hoax...that it’s not accurate.
Proof, or opinion?
Proof, or opinion?
You posted it without being even remotely curious?
Why? Because you want to believe it?
The info doesn't even pass the sniff test.
Then is is just your opinion. I have one too, you are full of it, maybe because LA is an Insane Asylum.
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