Marco Rubio Faces Tea Party Criticism On Immigration

The Miami Herald:

A crack is forming in U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's tea party.

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Comments

[92102]

05:44 AM on 06/01/2011

Mr. Rubio can join Scott Brown of Mass under the tea people bus. In order to maintain support from Tea People they must be in lockstep with any direction given by Dick Armey and the Koch brothers that fund them. Independent thought or deviation from the party line will result in them becoming road kill for the Tea People Express.

[liberalntex]

11:56 PM on 05/31/2011

Marco, many middleclass American's who vote GOP in the south our members of that party because they feel it is the party of the White Majority, you either agree with the rest of the GOP Latino's that are anti-immigration or you can't have tea bags hanging from your hat.

[ropadopa]

11:35 PM on 05/31/2011

Marco Rubio, Opportunist is thy name.

We saw how you sold your South Florida Soul to the Northern Republicans for the Speakership of the Florida House, by turning a blind eye while they pulled money out of Broward and Miami Dade Counties to finance conservative counties in the North.

We saw how you pretend at being a Tea Party candidate to usurp Governor Crist for the Republican nomination.

We see you now tippy toeing around the hard decisions such as immigration and Medicare Reform, positioning yourself for the party's vice presidential ticket.

The result of all of this is an empty suit, a man with pure ambition but no substance.

[treadway123]

11:13 PM on 05/31/2011

Who aren't the Tea Party out to get at this stage in the game they all seem to play?

[TOPCAT711]

11:04 PM on 05/31/2011

Don't sweat it, Marco......everybody will get a turn on this roller coaster ride.

[asaman53]

11:00 PM on 05/31/2011

Why don't the Republicans force the Tea Baggers to form their own party? Cut the Baggers off from corporate money and they will disappear within a year. The tea Baggers are not tax protesters, they are tax evaders. The IRS aught to audit every one of them.

[Gronkie]

10:01 PM on 05/31/2011

These poor, gullible Tea Partiers still haven't figured it out. Their usefulness to their candidates ended when the polls closed on election day. Before that, politicians will say anything their supporters want to hear in order to gain votes, but after that it is all about the real agenda - working as henchmen for anti-American multi-national corporations in their effort to turn America into a third world country. Around January of re-election year, the Republicans will once again start up the pro-Tea Party rhetoric, only to abandon them the day after elections again. They have done this one election after another for years and years, and their supporters are still too dumb to figure it out.

[marymeade2]

09:50 PM on 05/31/2011

This is a nothing story.

[dwright]

08:55 PM on 05/31/2011

I can't believe that they claim that putting him on the ticket with the upcoming GOP candidate will guarantee a GOP victory. LOL - puhleeze just because his parents are from Cuba does not guarantee a Hispanic and/or Latino support. by the way it shows just how little the GOP knows about the difference between Puerto Rican's Mexicans and others south of our border and Cuba. They all have very different cultures and significant differences.

[JRsNana]

08:18 PM on 05/31/2011

He's a fraud. Poor Florida. They voted for this guy and they voted for Scott. Now they're stuck with them. It's really sad.

[dayzee10]

10:20 PM on 05/31/2011

It is not sad .....some people have to learn the hard way and I hope they are enjoying every minute of their learning experience

[JRsNana]

01:30 AM on 06/01/2011

Amen.

[BrianJackson]

08:06 PM on 05/31/2011

Marco Rubio is a tool. He's bad for Florida and bad for this country. I can't tell you how many hours I spent trying to get my neighbors to vote against Rubio and Scott. If the other half of my state ever wakes up, we just might be able to make progress!

[sfoceb]

09:34 PM on 05/31/2011

hear hear!

[dayzee10]

10:22 PM on 05/31/2011

well I guess I do feel sorry for people like you....but not for the retealibanbaggericans

[whatchamean]

07:30 PM on 05/31/2011

Mike Rubio knows that he is the de facto republican candidate in 2016. He knows that he needs to appear moderate to win (conservatives like to think they make up the norm, but middle right is what wins elections). Rubio is supposed to be the Hispanic Obama and there will be tremendous national pride among hispanics for the first Hispanic president. Blacks will stay home and he will win unless there is something in his history that might make him un-electable (a al Henry Sisneros).

[nypapajoe]

07:44 PM on 05/31/2011

Hispanics will Never accept this turn coat as a Hispanic candidate!

[Kara Kramer]

08:40 PM on 05/31/2011

He does have a shot at 2016, but between now and then he'll be subjected to some sort of conservative loyalty test, and he'll offend most hispanics.

His only hope in 2016 is if he becomes an independent, now. That gives him the opportunity to stay out of the 2012 fray and rid himself of tea party associations over 4 years before making a run.
A republican minority candidate can't win, the same way a republican female candidate can't win, because too many of their voters think these categories of people are inferior and/or dangerous.

To many republicans Rubio's a useful idiot, nothing more, they'll never put him in the oval office.

[dwright]

08:52 PM on 05/31/2011

He is very far right he is not an independent at all

[teabagmetos]

07:01 PM on 05/31/2011

Rubio is an Incompetant backed by Incompetants ( the Bush Family ) Jeb has dragged the state into the dregs, and wrecked eveything the late Gov Lawton Chiles had built up that was good.

[Djelem]

06:05 PM on 05/31/2011

He never showed me his birth certificate. I hear he was born in Texas and is therefore ineligible for membership in the human race.

[ConsensusReality]

06:04 PM on 05/31/2011

Maaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrccccccccccccccccooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! You got some 'splainin' tooooooooo dooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!