Posted on 02/06/2013 4:31:21 PM PST by drewh
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) will deliver the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address on Feb. 12.
Rubio's response will be delivered in both English and Spanish, according to Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) office.
"Marco Rubio is one of our party’s most dynamic and inspiring leaders. He carries our party’s banner of freedom, opportunity and prosperity in a way few others can. His family’s story is a testament to the promise and greatness of America," Boehner said in a statement on Wednesday.
"He’ll deliver a GOP address that speaks from the heart to the hopes and dreams of the middle class; to our party’s commitment to life and liberty; and to the unlimited potential of America when government is limited and effective," added Boehner.
Rubio, a Tea Party favorite, said he would discuss limited government in his response.
"I’m honored to have this opportunity to discuss how limited government and free enterprise have helped make my family’s dreams come true in America," said Rubio.
According to a Rubio aide, the response will focus on policies to aid the middle class. The Cuban-American lawmaker is also likely to discuss immigration.
Rubio's selection to deliver the GOP response is the latest sign of the freshman senator's increasing prominence within the Republican Party. The junior senator is viewed as key to attracting more Hispanic voters to the GOP and is at the center of speculation as a potential 2016 presidential contender
Rubio's response also comes as he has taken a prime role in negotiations over crafting an immigration reform deal. He signed on to a bipartisan Senate blueprint for immigration reform unveiled last week and has taken the lead in selling conservative lawmakers on the plan.
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No problem. The government deserves all the harshly worded criticism we can pile on them for this. It's unacceptable. But whatever you say, make sure that it cannot be construed as insensitive toward Latinos.
Extremely dumb move. The vast majority of illegal immigrants will NEVER vote for a Conservative, much less a Republican.
Illegals can't vote -- at least, not legally. If we can open the door a crack like I indicated above, and speak on these issues in a more sensitive way toward Latinos, we can take away the Democrats' most powerful talking point: their lie that we are racists.
I'm out here in the western suburbs of Chicago and we're surrounded by perfectly legal, conservative Latinos who are in this country legally and on a path to citizenship. They shake their heads in sadness at the way Democratic Party operatives are getting over on us with this. Basically, in their hearts Latinos are born conservatives. We have to reach out to them and take what belongs to us.
Me too....yummy (:
You're over-stating the case.
Middle class Latinos, no question.
Lower class Latinos, not so much.
But you could say the same thing about Anglos...
Problem is, a disproportionate share of the Latino population is less than middle class.
Who is doing the Mandarin,French,German,Russian,Hebrew,Arabic rebuttal?
40 years ago the evil Kennedy was part of the effort to import illegals. The evil left is only using the illegals for power and control. The evil left only wants their votes.
If we had a proper immigration process, we would have had an orderly way to have millions of immigrants with the values you describe come to our Country.
The RATS know exactly what they are doing. They are out to destroy our Republic and make it into a Socialist H*ll.
Rubio is a idiot fool to think any immigration plan being developed will benefit our Republic. The Rats would never allow that. The RATS know clearly the cultural and vote preferences of illegals.
We can change that. Lower class Anglos, at least those who haven't been brainwashed by the unions, are overwhelmingly conservative. They are almost as reliably conservative as the blacks are reliably Democratic Party voters -- in the 80-90% range.
You know why.
...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said. [Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST]
Unfortunately for you, it means amnesty for Marco Rubio. It appears the tone of his "Spanish language" response will be Dem-lite rather than articulating a conservative vision. I take this as a further sign that America and western civilization is rotting from the inside. I wish I could be optimistic.
In 2004, George W. Bush got 44% of the Latino vote. This came at a time when the left-wing news media establishment, as well as Michael Moore, were demonizing Bush about Iraq.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/politics/latino-vote-key-election/index.html
Given enough time, enough sensitivity and an intelligent pro-family message, I believe we can get the Latino GOP vote over 50% by 2016 and perhaps much higher. Barack Obama could be the last Democratic president of our lifetimes.
Latinos are basically conservative, just as all people who genuinely believe in God and family are basically conservative. And like all other people, Latinos who don't have all the information at their disposal, and are fed a steady diet of left-wing lies and highly selective "news" broadcasts, are easily hoodwinked by socialists.
Not just here. Pretty much everywhere in the Latinosphere.
Full court press
FOX/Ailes and their drumbeat
and the GOP establishment
some VERY STUPID GUILTY WHITE IDIOT FREEPERS
move LEFT
become BROWN
our future
pretty much sucks
the sooner the real politics by other means starts the sooner we (or our kids) can build anew
we are being led down the road to ruin by our own leaders
things will never be the same no matter how this turns out down the road
This is how you torpedo your presidential hopes. Rubio can KMA.
1986 was a horrible year for America. The year that Amnesty was passed. Oh and did that help us? No! We lost the Presidency in 1992 which would have been about the time they became Citizens. Stupid Stupid decision that they want to repeat.
The GOP winning a good % of latino votes both seems necessary and impossible right now.
Rubio is trying to convince GOP voters like Rush listeners that hispanics will vote GOP if they go along with ‘comprehensive immigration reforms’ w a delayed ‘path to citizenship/voting’ which is required to get Dems to go along with it.
But he offers no convincing arguments that this will do anything but create more Dem voters.
Most Hispanics agree with O on nearly all positions he takes, not the GOP's national positions. They are very liberal and believe the gubment should be taxing the rich and doing stuff for the non-rich. Rubio wont address this problem.
Alternatively many Republicans (here certainly) call illegals who were brought here as say 6 yrso old and are now say 20 with a US HS degree and not going anywhere ‘criminals’, This comes from lumping them all together as the same. To voting hispanics it just looks like its hispanic dumping. And give these young people the vote and they will most certainly vote Dem too.
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