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It's time for a Marco Rubio thread?

newyorkguy said:
I saw both Cruz and Rubio profiled on PBS last night. I was disturbed by their comments about following the teachings of Jesus Christ, about being guided by God, that America has to align itself with Jesus. We can't continue to ignore the lessons contained in scripture, we have to live in the way that God wants us to or there is no hope for this country.

I thought I fell asleep and woke up in Iran! Everybody is entitled to their religious beliefs but America is supposed to be a secular democracy.

Cruz scares me and Rubio makes me uncomfortable.
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I get the feeling that Rubio is just saying that because you have to say that to get the GOP nomination, but Cruz actually believes that crap.
 
Cruz's religion is complicated. He was raised Roman Catholic, went to a Southern Baptist Church for a time, then returned to Catholicism. Except he still goes to the Baptist church now and then. He's a Roman Baptist.

The fact that someone with Cruz's radical views is now seen as the savior of the Republican establishment shows how far the party has fallen into the extremist trap.

And thank you, Dr. Keith, for starting the thread. It was indeed time.
 
I think if Trump collapses in the next few weeks the GOP establishment's love affair with Cruz will be over.
I think they always meant for him to take down Trump,then be taken down by Rubio.
 
Before taking the stage for the debates, I wish he'd stop jamming fizzies up his ass. I mean really, how else do we explain the over-amped effervescence?
 
Jrrarglblarg said:
I could almost ignore this about a politician, though, because it's the devil's knitting to get changed at this point. But climate change denial, real or pandered, suggests not only will nothing positive be done about climate change but moneyed interests will continue to operate unimpeded in further contribution of the problem.
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I can see your point. For me it is probably the combination, and the certainty.

ETA: And it really isn't the devil's knitting. We are not far from appointing some supremes. It wouldn't take many to change a lot of what we consider settled law.
 
Regnad Kcin said:
And the winner of the Damning With Faint Praise gold medal...

Anyway, Mr. Rubio, among his stellar qualifications, is a complete climate change denier. I will relish his eventual defeat.
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And Hillary believes women make 77 cents on the dollar. Both sides have their blind spots.
 
Crossbow said:
Has anyone else noted the Rubio campaign slogan?

I did and I found it to be rather odd:

A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY

It would be quite difficult for any American President to define how things will be 100 years from now so I sure cannot understand what it is that Rubio is trying to communicate.
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Is this the Project for a New American Century? Or is it a NPNAC?
 
He's filled with far too much blood lust for my liking. Yea, I know ISIS is a big problem, but it's not the biggest problem we face in America, not by a long shot.
 
Brainster said:
And Hillary believes women make 77 cents on the dollar. Both sides have their blind spots.
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Believing that climate change is a big nothing-burger is hardly a blind spot. It's the smart move. Rubio was always smarter.
 
One thing you can say about Marco Rubio is, he has the biggest ears in proportion to his head of any of the candidates. Ever since I noticed that, I've found it hard to not focus on them when I watch him talk. They're more apparent if you click on the image to expand it. I don't know if his ears will help him or hurt him if he becomes president.

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sunmaster14 said:
Believing that climate change is a big nothing-burger is hardly a blind spot. It's the smart move. Rubio was always smarter.
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one can't be dumber than denying climate science.

Unless you are referring to a strategy to attract a majority of dumb ass Republicans, then yeah you're correct.
 
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DavidJames said:
one can't be dumber than denying climate science.

Unless you are referring to a strategy to attract a majority of dumb ass Republicans, then yeah you're correct.
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I would actually prefer honest stupidity on the matter to cynical pandering.
 
Doghouse Reilly said:
One thing you can say about Marco Rubio is, he has the biggest ears in proportion to his head of any of the candidates. Ever since I noticed that, I've found it hard to not focus on them when I watch him talk. They're more apparent if you click on the image to expand it. I don't know if his ears will help him or hurt him if he becomes president.

http://imgur.com/gallery/0lXjCz9
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Wowsers. Those are some whoppers.

Now I won't be able to un-see them either.
 
Jrrarglblarg said:
seriously?

And what, dare I ask, is a "nothing-burger" and what does it look like when it goes to math class?
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A "nothing-burger" is something that in a conservative (i.e. bad) scenario, slices less than 1% off of world GDP over the next century.

But seriously? Do you measure your gas mileage in PSI? Do you have a dentist wax your car? Are you in the habit of paying carpenters to perform surgery?
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Huh?
 
I searched for something I could agree with Rubio about. It took a long time, but he's in favor of limiting the terms of Supreme Court justices. Hey, me too. So, he's got my vote.
 
I think Rubio is the leader of the pack through the Super Tuesdays as Trump, now fallible, will bore those who tune in to his attempts to get more grounded and electable (as they realize there's nothing there) and Cruz doesn't play in the non-evangelical states. I won't go so far as to say he is winning the whole banana but he is my odds-on favorite right now. His young boyish looks (despite the Abe Lincoln ears) and Latino cred will give him a bunch of delegates in the next couple weeks. And he can pander with the best of 'em.

Crossbow said:
Has anyone else noted the Rubio campaign slogan?

I did and I found it to be rather odd:

A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY

It would be quite difficult for any American President to define how things will be 100 years from now so I sure cannot understand what it is that Rubio is trying to communicate.
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Speaking of Panderer-In-Chief I assume this is pandering to the Bill Kristol/Dick Cheney PNAC crowd, that charming bunch of heckofanice guys that got us into Iraq.

pgwenthold said:
I heard his speech last night. I guess I don't get it. It was a lot of "We're going to go back to what made America great!!!" And I mean a lot. Like, over and over.

Unfortunately, I wasn't quite clear exactly what he actually thinks it is that made America great. I guess that is the beauty of it - leave it to his supporters to assume it agrees with them.
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That is the "one true conservative" mantra - a dash of evangelism, a sprinkle of free market capitalism and heaps of nostalgia. Unless Jeb can somehow reclaim this mantle, this is Marco's ticket to the nom. I thought Scott Walker could have played this better, I am guessing he is kicking himself for getting out so early.

I remember going out to lunch with some coworkers when the 2008 race was getting started. One remarked "There's no way a guy with a name like Barack Obama can get elected. He's so obviously not an American." To which I responded "Oh, and which candidate are you supporting?" His inevitable answer (hint: Long Island NY) was "Rudy Giuliani." I bring it up because it wasn't too long ago that a name like Marco Rubio was enough to bar someone from consideration, but maybe it is a Latino-American's turn to rise to national prominence. The question is, come July in Cleveland, will he be the Keynote Speaker or the nominee?
 
he's another hard-core right-winger. At the Reagan library he said Social Security weakened us as a people because people didn't have to save money for old age. Apparently he's clueless that the reason they set up SS is because millions of Americans lost all their saving when the banks crashed! idiot.
 
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