Rubio says DeMint is his best friend

[emazur]

If DeMint is such a bad guy, why are there so many people on this forum that like him

He welcomes libertarians into the GOP


Is open to shutting down some military bases (and acknowledges the Military Industrial Complex)


And was a vocal supporter of audit the Fed

 

[devil21]

Looks like the media is in full "Push Rubio" mode lately. I guess the elites have already decided they want him in 2016. There's a front page Yahoo "article" about his favorite rap music artists. That's not pandering to the younger black vote at all. Rubio is so cool! And he likes Tea Party stuff too! What a guy!

We need to tear his ass down sooner rather than later.

(Why did this thread turn into a discussion about DeMint? It's clearly Rubio push propaganda)

 

[itshappening]

There's no doubt that this article represents (faux) campaigning to the "Tea Party" and fiscal conservatives, nothing more. The neo-conservatives are already behind him 110%.

As usual Brian, great analysis.

The most telling thing is Rubio was made Speaker of the House in Florida within just a few years. They would never give that to a young representative unless he is completely owned.

 

[devil21]

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2010/11/guess-whos-meeting-marco-rubio-in-israel.html

Guess who's meeting Marco Rubio in Israel?

Newly elected Sen. Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, are meeting billionaire businessman/Jewish community leader/political pot-stirrer Norman Braman, his wife and her sister in Israel next week.

Braman was an early Rubio supporter and said they have talked about going to Israel together for years. He stressed that Rubio was paying his own way. It will be his first trip to Israel.

"I was hopeful that it would come about win or lose,'' Braman said. "Marco and Jeanette are religious people."

Braman is in the middle of a ferocious campaign to recall MIami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez, who, you may recall, endorsed Rubio's ex-rival Charlie Crist in the Senate race. Rubio's name was even bandied about in 2008 as a potential Alvarez challenger. Braman paid for a poll that showed Rubio and Alvarez in a tie.

The Rubio camp was mum on what it called a "private and personal visit to the Holy Land next week. There will be no official meetings or media interviews, and specific details of the trip will be kept private. Senator-elect Rubio is also working with pro-Israel supporters to make an official trip back to Israel early next year after he is sworn into office."

Yep, owned. Im sure he's already gotten friendly with Sheldon Adelson and the rest since then.

 

[itshappening]

Adelson bankrolled Gingrich's campaign, he loves an Israel-firster

 

[compromise]

The question is, will he support our candidate in the primary, or Lindsay Graham, or stay out of it? I'm guessing the latter but if he supports Tom Davis who it looks like will be running then that would be respectable.

The sad truth is that there are only about 8 somewhat fiscally conservative senators in the senate, hopefully 10 or so now with the addition of Cruz and Flake. Rubio and DeMint are among the best in that regard, though it seems like DeMint has moved our way on foreign policy and Rubio has not.

There is a big difference between DeMint, Lee, Flake, Cruz, Moran, Coburn and the rest of those guys and Rubio. They are at least somewhat skeptical of war. Rubio agrees totally with John McCain and Lindsey Graham on foreign policy.

 

[Odin]

DeMint was in the House and voted no.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2003/roll669.xml

Oh I see I was looking at the senate in 2003.

 

[Odin]

There is a big difference between DeMint, Lee, Flake, Cruz, Moran, Coburn and the rest of those guys and Rubio. They are at least somewhat skeptical of war. Rubio agrees totally with John McCain and Lindsey Graham on foreign policy.

Yeah it seems you're right, just reading a foreign policy speech he gave right now it seems he is a big time interventionist.

That's too bad because he seems to be quite good on other fiscal issues.

 

[itshappening]

Rubio is a full on Neocon. Remember Ron Paul's Neconned speech. Neocons support welfare and warfare. They also endorse lying as a political tool and believe it is necessary to further the State hence Rubio's talk on fiscal issues is just a standard Neocon lie.

Rubio's staff is full of people who supported Bush, Cheney and Romney. Karl Rove wanted him to be Romney;s VP pick.

 

[Shane Harris]

http://www.examiner.com/article/sen-rand-paul-blocks-marco-rubio-s-efforts-to-start-war-with-russia

Sen. Rand Paul blocks Marco Rubio's efforts to start war with Russia


"While our nation was struggling to make a living and pay its bills, the establishment's darling Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was trying to get through a unanimous voice vote to allow Georgia into NATO. Under the rules of the Senate, it only takes one Senator to object in order for the effort to fail. That one voice, once again, was our latest hero, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY).

On the heels of tempers flying across the world between Russia and the US regarding the refusal by the US to remove missile defense shields which have been increasingly being put in place in order to completely surround Russia, the President of Russia had recently threatened to fully withdraw from the START treaty for arms reduction if the shields were not removed. Now, Senator Marco Rubio tried to wisk through on only a voice vote the authority to allow Georgia to officially join NATO which would mean that Russia would be almost entirely surrounded by NATO forces and would certainly consider that an act of war and breach of international agreements.

Because Sen. Rand Paul single-handedly blocked this effort, the matter would have to go through more appropriate channels such as committee hearings, debates and a full senate vote before this action could possibly be accomplished.

As readers will recall, it was also Senator Paul that recently led an effort to try to gut the dangerous provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act that would allow US citizens inside our country to be targeted and killed by the executive branch without any due process and would enable our own military to arrest and detain indefinitely any citizen that is even accused of thinking about aligning themself with various terrorist groups or any undefined "affiliated" groups. This bill would also allow drone attacks on its own citizens "suspected" of any above activities within the United States.

For frustrated Americans that believe that one good American in Congress could not possibly make a difference, we all can now have hope that one person in our Senate is aggressively taking his job seriously and doing what he can to protect all of us from a Washington, DC that has been completely out of control for perhaps decades.

Thank you Senator Rand Paul for at least temporarily trying to fend off a WWIII scenario."

 

[anaconda]

DeMint is a socialcon and is starting to shake his neocon ways a bit. He is coming more our direction, more of a Pat Buchanan old-right paleocon than a liberty guy.

Buchanan has always been hugely non-interventionist. Big difference.

 

[Confederate]

Buchanan has always been hugely non-interventionist. Big difference.

I like Buchanan. Probably even more than I like Ron Paul.

 

[supermario21]

I like Buchanan. Probably even more than I like Ron Paul.

A paleocon/Ron Paul libertarian alliance would definitely be a great one. I'd argue that with Paul's stances on many social issues that the two brands aren't drastically different. The sad thing is that I fear it would be a PR disaster, as the MSM would be quick to label us racists...

 

[Confederate]

A paleocon/Ron Paul libertarian alliance would definitely be a great one. I'd argue that with Paul's stances on many social issues that the two brands aren't drastically different. The sad thing is that I fear it would be a PR disaster, as the MSM would be quick to label us racists...

Ron's newsletter were targeted at the paleoconservative demographic.

I'm a paleoconservative and I support Ron Paul because his federal political views line up pretty damn close with paleoconservative views. I'm petty sure we'd disagree on state issues, but since he's not run for state office, that issue has no come up.

 

[July]

A paleocon/Ron Paul libertarian alliance would definitely be a great one. I'd argue that with Paul's stances on many social issues that the two brands aren't drastically different. The sad thing is that I fear it would be a PR disaster, as the MSM would be quick to label us racists...

The American Conservative magazine is targeted at just such a demographic...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

Looks like the media is in full "Push Rubio" mode lately. I guess the elites have already decided they want him in 2016. There's a front page Yahoo "article" about his favorite rap music artists. That's not pandering to the younger black vote at all. Rubio is so cool! And he likes Tea Party stuff too! What a guy!
...

Lol. I saw that. The left and right media are going to be pushing him for the next 4 years. "Rubio likes rap music" is a headline?