Marco Rubio says Pope Francis isn’t for “freedom”

[kpete]

Rubio expressed his rather lengthy scolding of the Catholic pontiff today after President Obama revealed a Pope-brokered plan for the United States to resume diplomatic relations with Cuba.

“I would also ask His Holiness to take up the cause of freedom and democracy, which is critical for a free people — for a people to truly be free,” Rubio told reporters, according to TPM.

“I think the people of Cuba deserve the same chances to have democracy as the people of Argentina have had, where he comes from; as the people of Italy have, where he now lives. Obviously the Vatican’s its own state, but very nearby. My point is I hope that people with that sort of prestige on the world stage will take up the cause of freedom and democracy.”


(But this is my favorite part of the article):

While growing up initially Catholic, Rubio then became a Mormon, then switched back to Catholicism, then became a Southern Baptist and a Catholic, then left the Baptists and simply became a Catholic, then he became a Baptist again, then a Catholic again, all the while technically remaining a Mormon.

MORE:
http://americablog.com/2014/12/marco-rubio-says-pope-francis-isnt-freedom.html

[CJCRANE]

1. Rubio's faith: Catholic->Mormon->Catholic->Southern Baptist + Catholic->Catholic + Mormon.

That's an interesting journey.

[Cosmic Kitten]

10. He has the "freedom" to join any religion he chooses.

What is IMPORTANT here is how the right-wing
has co-opted "FREEDOM".

The right-wing frame is that they stand for "freedom"
anyone else is a "threat" to their definition of "freedom".

The right-wing authoritarians have twisted freedom
into an Orwellian context where Rubio can say:

"My point is I hope that people with that sort of prestige
on the world stage will take up the cause of freedom and democracy.”

Meanwhile; Rubio and his party are gerrymandering
elections, and destroying voters rights...
Yeah, "freedom and democracy"

[Scuba]

23. Rubio's religion is Greed.

[el_bryanto]

2. What gets me about that argument is that we've been trying it their way for 70 years?

60 years? If it was going to bring freedom to the Cuban people wouldn't it have done so by now?

But that's the Republican party, where the appearance of strength is possibly more important than actual strength.

Bryant

[Cosmic Kitten]

12. Strenght is measured in the number of "rubes" in agreement

as long as the right-wing followers
bobble-head in agreement, they have strength.

[Glassunion]

18. You just don't get it...

If it fails for 60 years, you just aren't trying hard enough. We need more defense spending and tougher sanctions so we can go down there and democracy the living shit out of them.

[bigdarryl]

3. What a pussy

[tularetom]

4. Jeezus, this guy is dumber than Bush, Perry, and Dan Quayle

Combined.

[RKP5637]

6. Yep! He has all the qualifications, therefore, to be a republican star! n/t

[Renew Deal]

17. I agree

Bush and Quayle had at least something rattling around. Rubio just sounds naive. He's repeating talking points he doesn't understand.

[niyad]

25. I must have missed whatever was rattling around in those two emply skulls. please enlighten us.

don't forget that quayle couldn't spell "potato", and didn't realize that "murphy brown" was fiction.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

27. I think they each had a certain craftiness that mostly served them when out of office.

[hifiguy]

28. GHW was no idiot.

His problem was, that as Gore Vidal once observed of him, he had told so many lies to so many people for so many years he could never figure out which lie was operative in any given situation and sounded like a boob while he stumbled around trying to sort it all out.

Quayle on the other hand was just another entitled moron with a very rich daddy. He couldn't have poured piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel, to borrow one of LBJ's more pungent descriptions of some pol.

[JaneyVee]

5. It makes no sense...

Rubio is against Castro illegally detaining people yet blocks every attempt to close Guantanamo Bay.

[BeyondGeography]

7. Wut?

[still_one]

8. Good thing he didn't join Isis since once you join then they don't let you

Join another religion

[KinMd]

9. Marco is covering all hiis bases isn't he?

He'll show up next week in a yamaka

[global1]

11. Is There Any Explanation Of His Jumping Around The Religions Like He Does Or Is He Just.....

indecisive? What a good quality for a politician that wants to be president. (sarcasm)

[Bluenorthwest]

13. I'll say this for Rubio, he's the only person who has managed to put me on the Pope's side in an

argument. His knowledge about the Vatican City and democracy is a bit thin, that's a throne the Pope sits on, not just a fancy chair, and until the mid 1800's the Vatican was secular ruler over the Papal States, a monarchy, perhaps a theocracy, but certainly not a democracy.

[n2doc]

14. He senses his moment

And is going for the "moran" title with Gusto! Little Ricky knows that is 15 minutes are on NOW!

[Renew Deal]

15. Mark Rubio will be long forgotten as a mistake before the pope is

He's completely clueless. He doesn't have the experience of the older Cubans and he hasn't learned from past mistakes. He's like a wind up doll that claps his hands and repeats the same nonsense mindlessly. He's a clown.

[HappyMe]

16. HappyMe says Marco Rubio has his head up his ass.

What's the deal with all those religion switches.

[blm]

32. Trying them all on to see which gets him the most votes.

NO integrity.

[KaryninMiami]

19. All I can say is...

What a schmuck. Taking on the Pope? Really? I'm not a Catholic but many people are and many others really respect this Pope. Not only are Rubio's views archaic, but also unpopular.
The fact that this asshat got elected here in FL is truly baffling but then again, we also have Rick Scott (schmuck and a criminal).

[CurtEastPoint]

20. I was hoping someone would point out this dweeb's 'spiritual journey' Confuse-A-Dork.

[world wide wally]

21. I think Rubio confuses "freedom and democracy" with "Republican"

If you switch the terms in his statement, it makes much more sense

[napkinz]

22. ...

[Historic NY]

26. Nightmare...yup.

[SomethingFishy]

24. Like every Republican, the only "faith" Rubio has is in

the almighty dollar.

We trade with other communist countries, it's time to get over the Bay Of Pigs.

And he wants to talk Freedom from the United States of Militarized Police? Really?

[hifiguy]

29. I am sure Francis could not care less what Kermit J. Whitebread thinks.

[47of74]

30. He and the other GOP idiots were all in love with the Papacy when their guy was in office.

Here's one example;

Sen. Marco Rubio R-Fla. praised Pope Benedict XVI this morning in a statement reacting to the news that he would resign at the end of the month.

“Today Pope Benedict XVI displayed the qualities of an excellent leader and a true man of God by putting the interests of the Vatican and the Catholic Church over his own papacy,” Rubio said. “Since becoming Pope in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI has served the Church honorably, particularly through his work promoting charity across the globe.”

These guys were all cheering when Benedict and his merry band of hardliners (Burke, et al) were doing their best to take the church back to the 16th century.

[blm]

31. Rubio trying to figure out which 'faith' will get him the most votes….LOL

Just what the country needs, another dimwitted narcissist with more ambition than he has brains or integrity.

[Mike Nelson]

33. Hope he's on the 2016 ticket!

Go Rubio! ... going against the Pope will get folks to the polls!

[Matrosov]

34. Isn't the Pope also a Marxist?

So I've heard from some right wingers. Amusing how they embrace religion, and yet when someone with the influence and stature of the Pope says something they don't like, suddenly he's a Marxist, isn't for freedom, and so on and so forth.

[MisterP]

35. that's par for the course for Latin America: whenever the clergy start speaking out

when they find a lot of dead peasants in a river or a grave full of people of one "party" they start saying they're better Christians than the bishops
even in the 30s, in fact

[Proud Liberal Dem]

36. This is the fight he wants to pick?