Rubio

[hater]

he's done. Hail Trump

no wonder I found it odd that he talked about playing Volleyball and liking electronic music

[boutons_deux]

Rubio is really stupid, but that's all Repugs do, play the martyred victims of whatever

Despite media’s ‘crush,’ Rubio sees bizarre conspiracy

In media and political circles, it’s known as the “Full Ginsburg.” It’s when one notable public figure appears on all five major Sunday morning shows on the same day, and it’s usually reserved for policymakers at the center of major breakthroughs.

It came as something of a surprise, then, when Marco Rubio celebrated his fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary by pulling off the Full Ginsburg.

Then seven days later, following his double-digit loss in the South Carolina primary, Rubio pulled off the Full Ginsburg again, receiving and accepting five more Sunday-show invitations.

When was the last time someone had back-to-back Full Ginsburgs? Never. Rubio, once hailed as “the Republican savior” on the cover of Time magazine, received a media reward that no American has ever received.

Had the Florida senator actually won those primaries, the media’s adulation might have been easier to understand, but remember, Rubio made 10 appearances over two Sundays after embarrassing defeats.

The reason for this special treatment is one of those things the political world tends not to talk about, though Slate’s Jamelle Bouie recently acknowledged what usually goes unsaid: “[T]he media has a huge crush” on Marco Rubio.

With this in mind, it came as something of a surprise to see Rubio on CBS this morning, complaining about an elaborate media conspiracy – to help Donald Trump. The Washington Post’s Greg Sargentflagged this bizarre quote:

“The media’s pumping [Trump] up as some sort of unstoppable force…. Unfortunately he’s being pumped up because many in the media with a bias know that he’ll be easy to beat in a general election.”

In a separate ABC interview this morning – the conspiracy is so vast, news organizations keep putting Rubio on television so he can share his conspiracy theory – the senator said the media is “holding back” its Trump criticism in order to hurt Republicans in the fall.
“It’s important for Republicans and conservatives to be aware of what is happening,” he added.

So, from Rubio’s perspective, the same news organizations that have shown him levels of affection that border on creepy are actually conspiring in secret against him. It’s all part of an elaborate media ruse to help Trump defeat Rubio in order to help Democrats.

Remember, thanks to media hype, we’re supposed to think Rubio’s the smart one in the 2016 field.

The senator’s conspiracy theory is so crazy, it’s unsettling that he repeated it out loud on national television.

Keep in mind that last night, as part of the network’s debate coverage, CNN told viewers that Rubio has “new momentum.” The network made the claim before the debate, on the heels of Rubio losing the Nevada caucuses – which he expected to win – by 22 points.

This, a week after Politico published a lengthy report on Rubio’s campaign in South Carolina – the headline read, “Rubio surges back to electrify South Carolina” – that read as if his campaign aides had written it themselves.

This, nearly a month after pundits and reporters eagerly pretended Rubio’s third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses was actually a triumphant victory.

Greg Sargent recently noted that media figures are “making it absurdly obvious that they want to be able to say Rubio is rising,” prompting MSNBC’s Chris Hayes to respond, “It’s like watching parents attempt to will their toddler into doing a difficult task.”

To be sure, this isn’t unprecedented. We can probably all think of election cycles in which the media obviously adores a candidate (John McCain in 2000, for example) and obviously scorns another (Al Gore in 2000, for example). It certainly seems as if the “crush” on Rubio is real, but he’s not the first to enjoy such affections.

Rubio is, however, the first candidate in recent memory who benefits from the media’s overt fondness, but who nevertheless believes the media is engaged in a conspiracy to help one of his rivals, in order to help one of his other rivals.

Such paranoia says something unsettling about the presidential hopeful’s perspective.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

ALL the Repugs are bat ing crazy, ignorant, stupid.

[boutons_deux]

10 Reasons Marco Rubio Is No Moderate

Marco Rubio is being positioned as a moderate alternative to Ted Cruz or Donald Trump. Baloney. His positions are extreme right.

Consider these 10 facts about Rubio:

1. Rubio wants to repeal Obama’s executive order to expand background checks and close gun sale loopholes.

2. When asked about closing down mosques, Rubio said he wants to shutdown “any place radicals are inspired.”

3. He denies humans are responsible for climate change.

4. His tax plan gives the top 1 percent over $200,000 in tax cuts every year. That’s as bad as Donald Trump’s tax plan.

5. He wants to cut $4.3 trillion in spending, including funds from Medicare and other programs, essentially freeze federal spending at 2008 levels for everything except the Pentagon.

6. He wants a permanent U.S. presence in Iraq, and would end the nuclear deal with Iran, putting us on a path to war.

7. We have no way to know where he is on immigration because he’s flip-flopped — first working on legislation to regularize citizenship for undo ented immigrants, and now firmly anti-legalization.

8. He wants to repeal Obamacare.

9. He’s against a woman’s right to choose, even in cases of rape and incest.

10. Although elected to the Senate as a Tea Party favorite, he’s now the establishment’s favorite Republican. Among his donors are hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer and the executives and PACs of Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and Koch Industries.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/...+the+Headlines

[Pelicans78]

Bouton, you have no clue about Rubio.

He's not a real candidate. He's a propped up clown by establishment Republicans to help them win the Hispanic vote and allow them to get cheap foreign labor. They give him a script which he reads over and over which he is why he appears robotic. He doesn't believe anything he says. Unfortunately most voters see thru his rhetoric which is why he will be irrelevant as a candidate after tomorrow night.

[boutons_deux]

Bouton, you have no clue about Rubio.

you'r full of

[Pelicans78]

you'r full of

No you are sitting behind you're computer 24/7. Rubio is not some real candidate who believes in what's he campaigning. He's been reading a script for years in hopes for the GOP to win the Hispanic vote. If you don't believe that, then you take him more seriously than you need to. He's been propped up by special interest groups. He's shaky at times during speeches and debates because he's having to stay within the script he receives even though he doesn't believe half the stuff he talks about it.

[boutons_deux]

I don't take ANY of the Repug candidates seriously. The Repug KLOWN KAR, financed by billionaires, artificial "candidates" with no real appeal, not one of them, or ANY Repugs, have any interest in governing.

[Pelicans78]

I don't take ANY of the Repug candidates seriously. The Repug KLOWN KAR, financed by billionaires, artificial "candidates" with no real appeal, not one of them, or ANY Repugs, have any interest in governing.

Of course your usual response. To be fair, Hillary fits in that mold but you have no choice to support her at this point. Your guy Sanders has little chance.

[boutons_deux]

The ‘Neocon Dream Team’ picks a Republican favorite

take a look at Mother Jones’ latest reporting on Marco Rubio and his “Neocon Dream Team.”

Among the 18 members of Rubio’s new “National Security Advisory Council,” which his campaign announced on Monday, are Elliott Abrams, a former special assistant to President George W. Bush who’s best known for lying to Congress about the Reagan administration’s role in the Iran-Contra scandal; Eliot Cohen, a historian, Iraq war supporter, and lawyer at the State Department during the Bush administration; Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security during Bush’s second term; and Michael Mukasey, a Bush administration attorney general.

Abrams and Cohen were members of the Project for a New American Century, an early-2000s group of neconservatives who pushed for big increases in defense spending, more American military intervention abroad, regime change in Iraq, and other policies that became Bush administration staples.

Keep in mind, when Rubio first arrived on Capitol Hill, he wasn’t exactly eager to be seen as a neoconservative hawk. In 2012, the Floridian said, “I don’t want to come across as some sort of saber-rattling person.”

But a common thread tying together much of Rubio’s career is his willingness to embrace far-right ideas if he thinks it’ll help advance his ambitions. In 2016, the senator sees neocons in need of a standard-bearer, so Rubio has decided to be pick up that torch and espouse an aggressive foreign policy that would likely involve several new U.S. wars.

Naturally, then, when it came time for Rubio to unveil his “National Security Advisory Council,” it’s filled with familiar names associated with a failed policy.

This tells us quite a bit about the senator’s candidacy, but it also sheds some light on the shamelessness of those who contributed to the Bush/Cheney catastrophes. I’m reminded again of a James Fallows piece from a couple of years ago.

We all make mistakes. But we are talking about people in public life – writers, politicians, academics – who got the biggest strategic call in many decades completely wrong. Wrong as a matter of analysis, wrong as a matter of planning, wrong as a matter of execution, wrong in conceiving American interests in the broadest sense.

None of these people did that intentionally, and many of them have honestly reflected and learned. But we now live with (and many, many people have died because of) the consequences of their gross misjudgments a dozen years ago. In the cir stances, they might have the decency to shut the up on this particular topic for a while.

Except, lacking decency, many of these folks have not only ruled out shutting up, they’ve decided to declare themselves credible policy leaders, ready to help advise another Republican president on matters of national security and foreign policy.

What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow

And of course, the neocons will be satisfied with neocon Hillary.

[boutons_deux]

Some Rubio advisers say get out before Florida

A battle is being waged within Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's campaign about whether he should even remain in the Republican presidential race ahead of his home state primary on March 15, sources say.

Rubio himself is "bullish" on his odds of winning the critical primary, despite some advisers who are less hopeful and believe a loss there would damage him politically in both the short- and long-term.

Publicly, the campaign is maintaining they are still a contender in this race, touting a Sunday win in Puerto Rico's primary that delivered Rubio 23 delegates. But privately, the campaign is having a debate about whether he should remain in the mix -- even for his home state of Florida's primary.

"He doesn't want to get killed in his home state," one source familiar with the discussions said, noting "a poor showing would be a risk and hurt his political future."

Alex Conant, Rubio's communication director, said the report of such an internal debate is "100% false."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/07/politi...out/index.html

If Rubotio gets clobbered in FL, he may not get elected again, but he's such a slimeball he should do OK lobbying.

[Chinook]

9. He’s against a woman’s right to choose, even in cases of rape and incest.

I know this is off-topic, but this thread sucks anyway. Abortion was a big issue in the 2012 elections, and people kept trying to pin Republicans down on their exceptions. I never got why they kept saying "victims of (rape and) incest". Like how are you a victim of incest? Did you schtoop your brother? All right, so you're not a victim of anything. You had consensual intercourse and don't deserve special status. If it's illegal, both should go to jail. Did your uncle force himself on you? Then you were raped, and that's already covered.

Incidentally, that whole abortion witch hunt that happened that year was really messed up. Sure you had stupid guys like Aiken who deserved to get canned. But things like what Mourdock said is just being consistent, and most of the people vilifying him seem more ignorant than he was.

[DMX7]

“In terms of things that have to do with personal stuff, yeah, at the end of the day it’s not something I’m entirely proud of. My kids were embarrassed by it, and if I had to do it again I wouldn’t,” he said during an MSNBC town hall.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/rubio-say...-against-trump

[rmt]

There's no reason for Trump (if he is nominated) to offer Rubio VP. I see Cruz as VP more and more now for the sake of party unity. To me, Kasich is the best fit - personality wise with gubernatorial and congressional experience.

[boutons_deux]

"Cruz as VP more and more now for the sake of party unity."

Krazy Kruz won't unify the Repug establishment that loathes him.

[DMX7]

There's no reason for Trump (if he is nominated) to offer Rubio VP. I see Cruz as VP more and more now for the sake of party unity. To me, Kasich is the best fit - personality wise with gubernatorial and congressional experience.

they hate cruz... they just hate him slightly less than Trump.

[rmt]

I don't mean the establishment. I mean Cruz's voters. If Trump gets the nomination, he needs to extend the olive branch to Cruz's voters or they'll stay home. Asking him to be VP is one way to get his voters back. I shouldn't have used the term "party unity."

[MultiTroll]

Did the Oil Pigs / Establishment Repugs get to Rubio?

Rubio Flip-Flops on Climate Change
http://www.newser.com/story/186874/r...te-change.html

[Reck]

Rubio and Kasich brokered a deal it seems. Rubio told his based voters to actually vote for Kasich in Ohio instead of himself.

[spurraider21]

"Cruz as VP more and more now for the sake of party unity."

Krazy Kruz won't unify the Repug establishment that loathes him.

are you going to vote for Krazy Klinton in the general election if she gets the nom?

[Mitch]

Rubio and Kasich brokered a deal it seems. Rubio told his based voters to actually vote for Kasich in Ohio instead of himself.

Brokered is a key word here

GOP might have decided to push them on the same ticket and give them the nomination in a brokered convention.

[rmt]

Rubio is the only one who is suggesting that his fans in Ohio vote for Kasich. Both Cruz and Kasich ask their followers to vote for them everywhere.

[Splits]

that look on his face

[Nbadan]

Former Florida Allies Assert on the Record That Rubio Is a Lazy, Devious Little Twerp
Source: Slate

It is widely anticipated that Marco Rubio is going to get s acked on his home turf in Tuesday's Florida presidential primary. A very unsympathetic Friday profile in the Tampa Bay Times suggests that part of the reason this is so is that Rubio's entire career has consisted of sweet-talking influential individuals into giving him big opportunities only to drop those individuals like hot rocks when another better thing comes along. The idea is that now, when he needs home-state support more than ever, Rubio has no one on the ground to rely on; a number of past allies in fact went on the record to tell the Times exactly how little they like lil' Marco and how bad he is at actually doing the jobs he's chosen for. In other words, all the people he stepped on on the way up are ready to kick him in the groin on his way down, or however that aphorism goes.

Among the highlights:

* He "landed one of 12 highly desired spots" on a post-9/11 Florida Legislature security committee only to miss six out of its 15 meetings.

* Mike Fasano, a former Florida House majority leader, chose Rubio as one of his whips but says he showed up so rarely to strategy meetings that asking "Where's Rep. Rubio?" became a running joke.

Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slate...a_friends.html

[boutons_deux]

Rubotio is the ideal Repug candidate for MISgovernance, NONgovernance.

[boutons_deux]

The Republican Party’s Chosen One exits stage right

It’s difficult to remember a candidate who enjoyed the kind of advantages Rubio had, but who ended up failing so spectacularly.

The Florida senator was adored and celebrated by his party’s establishment.

Pundits not only fawned over him, they practically ordered Republican primary voters to support him.

What he lacked in accomplishments and qualifications he made up for through charm, money, and well-delivered right-wing rhetoric.

But Rubio’s castle was made of sand, washed away effortlessly by one obnoxious wave.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...d=sm_fb_maddow