I'm not sure why so many conservatives believe Florida Senator Marco Rubio is their politician of the future - the person most likely to win a presidential election for the party in 2016 or beyond. Maybe it's because he's fairly young, decent looking, and Hispanic. However, he's also a Tea Partier. He's further to the right than either John McCain or Mitt Romney were, and those two candidates had a difficult enough time winning over undecideds on election day.
Senator Rubio has said that he's not a bigot, even though he continually showcases that he's against homosexuals attaining equal rights. He's now showing uncertainty about the immigration reform bill he himself constructed. On ABC's This Week, the Florida Senator engaged in the following back-and-forth with guest host Jonathan Karl
Karl: "You are one of the primary architect authors of the bill that came out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, immigration reform. I have a basic question, do you support your own bill?
Rubio: "I think it's an excellent starting point. I think 95, 96 percent of the bill is in perfect shape and ready to go. But there are elements that need to be improved. [...]"
Karl: "If it stays the way it is on border security, do you vote for it?"
Rubio: "I don't want to get involved in the hypotheticals and ultimatums."
Karl: "It's a real possibility."
Rubio: "No, I don't think it is. A bill without increased border security which everyone has now conceded needs to happen. The debate is about what that border security provision looks like. If we do that, the bill will have strong, bipartisan support. If we fail, we will keep trying. The only way to pass the immigration reform law out of the House and Senate so the President can sign it is if he has real border security measures."
That's always good - to construct a bill which you vote against. That would look especially good if Rubio became the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election when trying to woo Hispanic voters:
"Yes, it's true that I was the architect of the immigration reform bill which failed to pass in the Senate. It's also true that I voted against this bill. However, you have to believe me that I believe in immigration reform and if it had been up to me, the bill I authored and voted against would have passed. You're welcome."
The Vegas odds have it at 4 : 1 that Rubio would need to go through an entire three bottles of water in order to just make it through those four sentences.
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/16/2164541/rubio-refuses-to-say-whether-he-supports-his-own-immigration-bill/
Senator Rubio has said that he's not a bigot, even though he continually showcases that he's against homosexuals attaining equal rights. He's now showing uncertainty about the immigration reform bill he himself constructed. On ABC's This Week, the Florida Senator engaged in the following back-and-forth with guest host Jonathan Karl
Karl: "You are one of the primary architect authors of the bill that came out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, immigration reform. I have a basic question, do you support your own bill?
Rubio: "I think it's an excellent starting point. I think 95, 96 percent of the bill is in perfect shape and ready to go. But there are elements that need to be improved. [...]"
Karl: "If it stays the way it is on border security, do you vote for it?"
Rubio: "I don't want to get involved in the hypotheticals and ultimatums."
Karl: "It's a real possibility."
Rubio: "No, I don't think it is. A bill without increased border security which everyone has now conceded needs to happen. The debate is about what that border security provision looks like. If we do that, the bill will have strong, bipartisan support. If we fail, we will keep trying. The only way to pass the immigration reform law out of the House and Senate so the President can sign it is if he has real border security measures."
That's always good - to construct a bill which you vote against. That would look especially good if Rubio became the Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election when trying to woo Hispanic voters:
"Yes, it's true that I was the architect of the immigration reform bill which failed to pass in the Senate. It's also true that I voted against this bill. However, you have to believe me that I believe in immigration reform and if it had been up to me, the bill I authored and voted against would have passed. You're welcome."
The Vegas odds have it at 4 : 1 that Rubio would need to go through an entire three bottles of water in order to just make it through those four sentences.
http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/06/16/2164541/rubio-refuses-to-say-whether-he-supports-his-own-immigration-bill/
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