Marco Rubio wouldn't have taken the stimulus money...okay, so he wouldn't have taken most of the stimulus money.
Marco Rubio is fiscally conservative...okay, so maybe he's not so fiscally conservative.
Marco Rubio wants less government and smaller government...except when it comes to immigration control.
Marco Rubio has sold himself as being part of a new, insurgent brand of Republican, not part of the GOP "establishment"...okay, but he has accepted the endorsement of establishment Republicans like Jim DeMint and Dick Cheney.
What Marco Rubio has shown us over the past 6 months is that he is a typical politician, just like Charlie Crist, saying, doing, and sometimes wearing [see above photo] anything to get elected. Like Crist, he stands for nothing, but unlike Governor Crist, he is willing to pander to the extremists on the far, far right in order to get their votes and earn himself some national face time. And that's certainly okay for Florida voters who question President Obama's birthplace or like a flat tax or believe that the minimum age for Social Security benefits should be raised. And no doubt this slick package from Miami is the perfect choice for those who have already placed him in the White House in 2012.
Which is even more of reason that the remainder of Florida voters need to keep Marco far, far away from Washington, DC and insure that he remains in Miami where he belongs, spending his days sipping cafecitos outside of the Versailles with Los Exilos.
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PC Police Alert! PC Police Alert! PC Police Alert!
You are hereby issued a PC citation, violation of PC code 123.45 which prohibits presumption of ethnic foods or habits attributable to minority individuals. On April 29, 2010, you wrote, to wit:
"spending his days sipping cafecitos outside of the Versailles with Los Exilos."
A clear violation of the code whereby you presume a minority partakes of ethnic food and/or lifestyle choices. Only the minority member him/herself may make such references.
Obviously, your criticism and race-based mockery of a Hispanic politician is nothing more than a manifestation of your racial hatred for Hispanics. You are no different from the Tea Party members who you, ironically, criticize for the same behavior. Minorities may not be criticized, ever, even if the criticism is not racial in nature.
Mustache Bobby would never write something so racist on his blog!
The cafe con leche at Versailles is very good.
Ricks not racist, he's a Progressive. Progressives have nothing against minorities...as long as they know their place.
Hispanic with conservative views? Well that's just a greasy Cuban hustler. Black with conservative views (Alan West)? O-R-E-O! Jewish with conservative views? Kapo.
White conservatives are simply racists, fascists, or Nazis.
It's all pretty much understood by the regulars here, so you can stop trolling.
Anon,
Cuban-Americans are not a minority group, they are people who claim ancestors (or are themselves) from a specific country.
As a Latino, I don't see any mockery and it's not clearly not race-based (I don't imainge any non-Cuban Latinos drinking cafecitos outside Versailles). Now, deporting American-born citizens because they are brown is pretty clearly racist:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/04/rep-duncan-hunter-backs-deporting-usborn-children-of-undocumented-immigrants.html
You are confusing criticism with racism, a very convenient thing that you guys on the right do...that way you don't actually have to provide any substance.
-g
"You are confusing criticism with racism, a very convenient thing that you guys on the right do.."
Wow.
The Tea Party backs a Hispanic in Rubio, an African American in West....but they're all still racists who can be ignored and minimalized because they criticize Obama's policies.
In college I took Psychology 101 and they taught us about the connection between projection and denial. Gramma said people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
Just wow.
Oh, and g, does the group "La Raza" have a secret handshake? Just curious. I'm sure that group isn't racist, I mean what with an ethnic name and all...
In college I took Psychology 101 and they taught us about the connection between projection and denial.
OMG that is sooooo precious. But Anonymous -- how could you have attended college before you graduated 8th grade?
And don't leave before you show us your birth certificate.
"And don't leave before you show us your birth certificate."
You're not allowed to ask Anon for his papers, unless you have no fear of g, La Raza, and the ACLU suing you for violating his/her civil rights.
Center hard tack by Marco coming in 1,2,3...
And it will be his end. I had the pleasure of listening to El Rushbo yesterday, and he was all over Marquito for daring to timidly suggest Arizona's immigration law wasn't "the best way to handle it". Marquito, the tea partiers are like Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction". They aren't going to be ignored!
(BTW, El Rushbo calls Obama's presidency "the regime". Such a standard bearer for democracy, that Rush.)
Are Cuban-Americans a minority in Miami-Dade County?
RAmblow -
Yes. Cuban Americans are a minority in Miami-Dade County. Latin Americans are not.
"El Rushbo calls Obama's presidency "the regime""
El Obamao calls his unelected appointees "czars" A couple of these czars were shamed out of their positions while Ricky was glued to MediaMatters.
A rose by any other name still stinks like kaka.
Alex, it doesn't have to be such a hard center tack. He can hold enough moderates in place just by playing CC as the "real hypocrite". As I said before, CC has to transfer his 27% of republicans lock stock and barrel in order for his math to work. Point is his margins for error are very tight, if they exist at all. How will he handle the refund issue (his campaign was busy spending on airtime leading up to the announcement, in order to make those contributions unavailable for refund)? Can he oscillate perfectly between the margins of his middle ground so that he doesn't alienate voters who are otherwise predisposed to vote with party ID? How does he do with both his flanks exposed (zing!) and under attack?
Who are the "independent icons" he can latch on to, like he did with Jeb! and Reagan when he was a conservative (as late as last month on Faux)? Which issue will present itself in the next 6 months to give him relevance and traction, after session is over?
All these questions and more have to be answered to Crist's advantage in order for him to have a chance. His greatest asset is that he has led a charmed life. That may be enough.
More popcorn, please.
nonee, I disagree, I think now that he wants to win a general election we're going to see more mild expressions of generalized Republican talking points, as opposed to fervent sops to the tea partiers/NRO crowd like Marco's been doing the last few months.
SFL, Rubio cannot moderate too much. He has his own issues to the right of him, though not quite as formidable. The TPers are kooky enough to vote for someone who has no chance, so Rubio has to be careful his numbers don't suffer because he did too much to keep Crist from taking all the moderates. Tactically, he only has to keep enough of them to make Crist panic and tack harder left to get his numbers, making Crist's campaign more about poaching from Meek than he had otherwise calculated.
I guess you could argue that fighting for the moderates cancels the losses on the extreme right, but like Rick the pragmatist would say, having a bird in the hand doesn't mean you flip the bird, er, give the bird to, um, the Bush. Or something like that.
Never forget, Rubio is Jeb's Mini-Me.
That's exactly Rubio's dilemma. The tea partiers are getting more radicalized by the minute. If he calculated he could pander to them in the primary then wink to the center and they would stay with him "because we have to win" like any other traditional political base, he's finding out they are pretty unforgiving of winks. That's the problem with fanatics. They'll turn on you as soon as they see you spitting the Kool Aid.
Remember also that while Crist has to add some numbers from all three columns, he can also win if turnout is small. If a significant number of Rs and Ds decide to sit this one because their candidates suck, the guy with the best name recognition has a pretty good chance of winning.
Crist with no party allegiance, a very visible job and a sizable war chest (no, he is not returning the money and voters won't care) is extremely dangerous. Let's see if he goes full-bore populist. Hey, the oil spill will give him a fantastic opportunity when it soils a few beaches.
g said "You are confusing criticism with racism, a very convenient thing that you guys on the right do...that way you don't actually have to provide any substance."
Ironically, every time the left tries to bash the right, they tack lefty attributes onto righties.
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