Posted on 02/11/2016 2:18:06 PM PST by AuntB
It is most interesting to go back and see what Rubio had to say about the issues when he made his announcement speech to run for president last April.
This is what he said about Terrorism, the Middle East, Isis:
NOTHING, not a word, but he mentioned CUBA twice!
"Cuban exiles" and "poor families in Cuba"
Here is what he said about immigration:
"modernize our immigration laws"
Yep, THAT is it, except for this in Spanish..
En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos. (In this country, you will achieve all the things we never could.)
http://time.com/3820475/transcript-read-full-text-of-sen-marco-rubios-campaign-launch/
How about TRADE: They are busy looking backward, so they do not see how jobs and prosperity today depend on our ability to compete in a global economy.
How 'bout the 2nd amendment? ZERO
SO...what DOES matter to Marco Rubio?
Rubio has already shown himself to be a backstabber
Never give more knives to backstabbers
Anyone who sides with illegal aliens and their employers against the citizens and the rule of law should be banished politically.
He’s going down next debate. The field will be just Trump and Cruz and maybe Kucinich.
All hail the Latino Eddie Haskell !!
LEH: “ That’s a nice upper middle class job your husband has, Mrs. Cleaver. Too bad it’s going to my pals in India “
“Anyone who sides with illegal aliens and their employers against the citizens and the rule of law should be banished politically.”
You are way nicer than me. I was thinking Gitmo : )
Here is another must read to understand Rubio and the people who own him.
Feb. 5, 2016
The Real Story Behind Candidates’ Stances on Detention Centers
[snip]Marco Rubio
While Donald Trump garners most of the headlines about immigration on the GOP side because of his egregious, racist comments, it’s actually Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) who has the most nefarious ties to the immigrant detention system. Rubio’s PACs and campaign have taken a total of $133,450 from private prison companies or groups that lobby on their behalf, but Rubio’s relationship with these companies goes back further than the campaign trail.
As the Washington Post reported, Rubio has had close ties to GEO for years, since his time as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. The Republican Party of Florida PAC has received over $2 million from GEO and CCA since 1989 and in 2010, GEO and its affiliates provided $33,500 to political action committees benefiting Florida Republicans, including the Marco Rubio for U.S. Senate PAC. As of April 2015, GEO’s co-founder and chief executive, George Zoley, had personally donated thousands of dollars to Rubio.
This is not just a matter of accepting money from companies with histories of human rights abuse allegations in their detention centers and prisons. The bigger question, especially as it relates to Rubio, is how accepting this money influences policy—and it seems to have done so. There are documented instances of private-prison companies appearing to influence policies that put more people in detention centers, including Arizona’s racist immigration laws, which pass, in part, because of companies like GEO and CCA that lobby for funding for ICE.
The Center for Media and Democracy detailed how Rubio’s connections to GEO during his time in the Florida house gave the private prison company a seat at the table. Rubio hired Donna Arduin as an economic consultant; Arduin is a former trustee for GEO’s Correctional Properties Trust. According to reports, Arduin worked with Rubio’s then-budget chief, Ray Sansom, to push a $110 million deal for a new GEO prison in the House Appropriations Bill. In the same report, the Center for Media and Democracy detailed how legislation that benefited GEO followed Arduin’s presence in government from California to Florida.
When Rubio won the Senate seat in 2011, he appointed Cesar Conda as his chief of staff. Conda was co-founder of what would become GEO’s main lobbying firm, Navigators Global. While working with Rubio, Conda still received payments of $150,000 from Navigators Global as part of a stock buyout arrangement. The Washington Post reports that in April 2014, Conda went on to lead Rubio’s Reclaim America PAC as a senior adviser, until rejoining Navigators Global in November of that year. During Conda’s time with Rubio, GEO became a top-ten contributor to Reclaim America, giving $16,000 in 2014. Navigators Global also obtained $610,000 from GEO between 2011 and 2014, all while it lobbied for immigration reform on GEO’s behalf.
Rubio does not address detention once in his immigration plan.
Sorry! Link to post # 6
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2016/02/05/real-story-behind-candidates-stances-detention-centers/
pretty close to what ted did fortpp...isn’t it...with he and his wife’s back door connect to govt sacks and one world govt?
Marco Rubio has an unblemished record of loyalty, and promises to be the greatest ever president of ... Aztlan.
Rubio’s number one problem is the fact that he betrayed all he ever met:
He betrayed his friend, Jeb Bush, who supported him morally and sent him a check even, in his FL congressional and senatorial, state and federal endeavors.
He betrayed the TEA party, who worked avidly to make him Senator of FL, instantly, as soon as he saw the big columns in DC.
He betrayed legal Americans and America with his Gang of Eight.
He still betrays the two, above, when he speaks in Spanish to Jorge Ramos and tells 180 degrees different on amnesty, saying in Spanish that he’ll “keep president Obama’s amnesty deal”, but tells the viewers in English that he wouldn’t.
He betrayed all the FL residents by being absent from DC and not performing his senatorial duties, in pursuit of yet another position.
He never has staying power for more than a few months, after he wins any position.
The media all call him an “establishment insider candidate”. He ran for the senate as an outsider, in the TEA party, and was a total deceiver as soon as he hit DC.
He is, in simple words, Benedicto Arnold to all he ever met, depending on what his incredible political ambitions are.
His second biggest problem is inexperience in the real world.
He has never produced or built anything. He was a lawyer for a very brief time. Other than that he has never even run a taco stand.
Trump/Cruz 2016
Not a Rubio supporter but he did come forward when he discovered the backstabbing by McCain,Burr and Graham.
Some,may recall Rubio and his family being threatened AFTER he went public. Rubio may never recover but the whole truth should be out there. For some Rubio being Catholic and Hispanic is enough to hate him.
More interesting to me, is a Cavuto "headline" today that said Rubio was speaking about a "brokered Convention" to win the White House. Hmmmmmm......
Reality check please. People disagree about immigration. People disagree about Obamacare. People disagree about socialism, capitalism and corporatism.
To go ad hominem against someone because you disagree on the issue implies that your arguments on the issue are weak so you have to resort to ad hominem. In short, ad hominem says more about you than about the person you attack.
Rubio isn’t my choice. He is not the best choice. But he also is no the devil. He isn’t even royalty like Jeb.
Excellent article - I’ve been posting it on various threads along with the entire “conclusion” ... the last paragraph, if nothing else, should render him ineligible as President/VP for anyone who believes that unless we have borders, we don’t have a country. As I like to put it, Rubio is an open borders wolf masquerading as a “conservative/tea party” sheep.
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From the “CONCLUSION”:
There is no single major distinguishing policy difference between Marco Rubio, John McCain or Lindsey Graham. They have the same trade policy, immigration policy and foreign policy. But on immigration most especially — the issue in which all four have invested the most — there is no daylight separating them.
The difference, then, is one of persona, not policy. And in the arena of immigration, this translates into a vital difference. The biggest change from McCain-Kennedy, which could not get out of the Senate, and the Gang of Eight — which was nursed along by conservative pundits despite being to the left of Kennedy’s bill — was the presence of Rubio. Rubio created the conditions necessary to produce a considerably more open borders bill: conservatives who were invested in the Rubio Brand provided no early pushback but accepted Kennedy’s old talking points, and Rubio gave red state Democrats the political space necessary to support it. This is how it got 68 votes in the Senate.
The stakes of course are raised considerably if Rubio is President or Vice President. Rubio would have a much, much better chance than Obama of getting an open borders bill through Congress — while Boehner could refuse to bring up Obama’s mass immigration/amnesty bill for vote in 2014, Ryan would never refuse Rubio’s bill. Rubio’s presence, as it did with the Gang of Eight, would create the cover for both certain Republicans and all Democrats to get behind a far more open borders plan. Given that nearly every House Democrat sponsored the Gang of Eight House version (including Pelosi and Gutierrez), Ryan would not need to gather that many additional votes (House GOP leaders might have refused Obama’s 2014 request for a vote but they would not refuse President Rubio’s).
All of which adds up to: there is likely no person in the United States of America in a better position to enact mass immigration legislation than a President Rubio — no one who could deliver more votes in both parties for open borders immigration. Senator Rubio is not Main Street’s Obama, he is Wall Street’s Obama: President Obama was a hardcore leftist running as centrist; Senator Rubio is a Wall Street globalist running as a tea party conservative.
Unlike other legislation, the effects of bad immigration policy cannot be repealed. They are forever. The Republican party would never nominate a pro-Obamacare candidate, and it must be an even stronger maxim that it should not nominate any candidate who is committed to a policy of mass immigration. Rubio wrote the Obamacare of immigration policies: a bill that would have eviscerated the middle class, plunged millions into poverty, legalized the most dangerous aliens on the planet, overwhelmed our schools and safety nets, and done irreversible violence to the idea of America as a nation-state. Rubio is the candidate of open borders, Obamatrade and mass immigration, making one last attempt to pull off one big con.
Amnesty seems to be one of the few things that matter to Robot Rubio. Nobody who actively pushes amnesty should be supported.
see post #14
I have some interesting things about how the U.S. and Cuba are interacting...
http://interactive.sun-sentinel.com/cuban-adjustment-act/loophole/
Thanks AuntB for the ping....
Rubio trump both support amnesty. Not trustworthy, both of them
“Rubio trump both support amnesty. Not trustworthy, both of them”
No, and you likely know better or you would have provided the evidence, which there is none...TRUMP does not support amnesty...he wants ALL aliens deported and then they apply to see if they can be granted legal entry.
How sad to represent your candidate by lying about someone else.
Trump was the first to call for deportation of illegal aliens in this race. Fact.
Cruz and Rubio barely mentioned immigration in their announcement speeches.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3395582/posts?page=136#136
No Way a Conservative leader!
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