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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarco Rubio is not a moderate: If the Florida senator represents mainstream conservatism, the GOP is
Marco Rubio is not a moderate: If the Florida senator represents mainstream conservatism, the GOP is screwedby Sean Illing at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2016/01/29/marco_rubio_is_not_a_moderate_if_the_florida_senator_represents_mainstream_conservatism_the_gop_is_screwed/
"SNIP.............
Apart from his fresh face, virtually nothing about Rubio is new or endearing. His ideas are either conventionally Republican or uncommonly extremist. On foreign policy, Rubio is a rabid neoconservative. He wants to double down on the Bush Doctrine; hes surrounded himself with neocon advisers; he supports the governments unconstitutional surveilance program; hes pro-torture; and he wants to dramatically increase defense spending even though America spends more on defense than the next eight nations combined.
On domestic and social issues, Rubio is no less extreme. Against the backdrop of record inequalities, he wants to reduce federal revenue and give the top 1% a massive tax cut (which would explode the budget). Like every other Republican, he wants to repeal Obamacare without offering a viable alternative to the millions of Americans who now have health coverage. He supports a ban on all abortions, including cases of rape and incest. And he wants to undo Obamas executive orders protecting LGBT citizens from marriage discrimination.
Thursday nights debate was yet another illustration of Rubios faux moderation. If you cut through the canned rhetoric and listen closely to what hes saying, Rubio sounds like a meat-tossing fanatic. His mini-monologues are either outrageous or patently false. In his opening remarks, Rubio trotted out his line about Obama hating America: You see, we usually elect presidents in America that want to change the things that are wrong with America. Barack Obama wants to change America. Barack Obama wants America to be like the rest of the world.
What does that even mean? President Obama has said repeatedly that his story is only possible in America; that he symbolizes the American dream. This is the kind of platitudinous drivel that Rubio spews on the stump. Rubio added that Obama systematically and habitually violates the constitution and yet never explains what he means by that. Its just red meat for the Obama-hating dolts in the audience.
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Rubio surging in Iowa. He's at 18%.
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Marco Rubio is not a moderate: If the Florida senator represents mainstream conservatism, the GOP is (Original Post)
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Jan 2016
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immoderate
(20,885 posts)1. Rubio is very stupid. With enough exposure, he will curdle.
Stupid.
--imm
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)2. I don't know but it's either trump, Cruz or Rubio
Goodness having any of them that close to the presidency is chilling.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)4. By the process of (excuse my language) — elimination, I give it to Trump.
Hard to believe.
I think Cruz and Rubio are too devout to amass a real following, plus Rubio is an idiot and Cruz is objectionable in every other way as well. Americans don't trust real fundies. Phoney holy OK, real holy,
--imm
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)3. And he likes to play the part of a theocrat: