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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) described his endorsement of Mitt Romney last night as motivated primarily by an interest to end the GOP campaign, and avoid a messy fight at the party’s summer convention.
Rubio, a rising star in the Republican Party and a darling figure among conservatives, said he decided to back Romney because he is concerned about the damage a floor fight in Tampa would cause to the GOP brand. He said the impact of an "open fist fight" on the floor would be "catastrophic" and it would diminish the chance Republicans could beat President Obama in November.
"At that point the question was do I think it's a good idea for the party to have a floor fight in August in Tampa? And the answer is I do not. I think Mitt Romney has won this primary. I think he's going to be a fine president. I think he's going to do an excellent job as president," Rubio said after a vote on Capitol Hill.
Asked to explain the timing of his endorsement, he said that when it became clear that Gingrich and Santorum couldn't win enough delegates, he made the calculation it was time to endorse.
"They have admitted the primary is over and their path to victory in August is a path to defeat in November,” Rubio explained. “Once they, by their own admission, ended the primary by saying that the only way they could win is by having a floor fight in August, the primary is over. And I don't think a floor fight in August increases our chances of winning in November. On the contrary, I think it diminishes those chances."
Rubio said that a contested convention would only entertain political junkies and excite the Obama campaign.
“In the modern era, in the 21st century, you cannot have an open fist fight like that at the convention... and beat the best funded presidential candidate in American history,” he said.
When he backed Romney last night on Fox News, Rubio said he was confident that Romney would govern as a conservative. Rubio said his grassroots reporters hadn’t voiced any complaints, though the Florida senator admitted some could be unhappy. He is prepared to do what it takes to help Romney win, including campaigning.
When asked if he could help bolster Romney's conservative credentials if he joined the ticket as VP he insisted Romney doesn't need the help.
"I think he doesn't need any bolstering. I think his conservative credentials exist both in his embrace of the free enterprise system through his success in it and also his governance of a state that isn't necessarily a bastion of conservative thought,” Rubio said. “He ran as a Republican and was elected there and governed in a way I think he should be proud of."
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a Romney supporter who’s leading the effort to secure support in Congress for the former Massachusetts governor, welcomed Rubio’s announcement.
"He's a significant figure in Republican politics today,” said Blunt. “And lots of those endorsements are coming right now in ways that I think help bring this procedure to some conclusion."
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What ringing support from Rubio on behalf of candidate Flipper! lol
Was he holding his nose while reading from the script?
Where's 'W's' coveted endorsement for Willard?
If Rubio gave an endorsement with over-the-top praise of Romney, you would mock that , too, Feisty, wouldn't you?
If anybody gave a ringing endorsement of Romney complete with fireworks and a brass band, he would be labeled a loon.
This is why people are issuing Sketchi's endorsements with a yawn. Everyone who hears of said endorsements feel a strong urge to take a nap.
Cut the excrement. Everyone knows Rubio is looking for that VP candidacy.
If Rubio is looking for the VP nomination, that sure wasn't a good example of how he'll campaign for Mitt in the fall and raise excitement for him.
I don't think Latinos will fall for Rubio on the ticket any more than women fell for Sarah Palin being on the ticket as a blatant attempt to appeal to a segment of the electorate who otherwise wouldn't vote Republican.
Bob in Va
Blame Fiesty all you want - typical of you teapublicans - always shoot the messenger!
Bottom line Bobby...Rubio lacked enthusiasm in his endorsement, plain and simple!
The GOP plan for a Romney/Rubio ticket has been in the works for quite some time now and is fairly well known to all those with a flair for the obvious............I for one, look forward to 11/6/12 and to the end of all this viscous bickering.....................and God Bless America and our Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Expression for all...............
Did the Senate just vote to add to our debt and deficit?
In the form of oil subsidies.
HELL NO It is Obama's debt and deficit. WTF?
Obama 2012
Wow! Well we can't confirm how the voting public already views us so I'm going to endorse the "Weather Vane"...
That's exactly how I interpreted it Feisty. Spot on!
But of coarse we all would have, Bob. We know Rubio is just doing what it takes to brown nose the GOP establishment. He's got to get their blessing for 2016!
R-money / R-unethical, great ticket - for me to poop on.
What ego! One word from Rubio and the Primary is over? Here we go again, Republicans crowning themselves "Dictators for Life"!
Obama / Biden 2012
Devie,
It's almost like someone was squeezing his balls forcing him to say "YAY for Willard"...
Talk about extreme duress... lol
Feisty, that was my first thought too -- endorsing only to keep the peace, wow. But don't forget the Blunt-Rubio amendment, in addition to Rubio's fake story about his family, 360 flip-flop on Medicare, etc. -- why would Romney want Rubio's endorsement?
And Dubya staying silent with hopes that his toxic presidency will be forgotten -- Not likely! Did folks catch Dan Rather talking about how the GOP has gone so far to the Right? It started when Reagan made Bush Sr. end his support for Planned Parenthood. And now the Bush Sr's. feel compelled to endorse Romney who says he will end Planned Parenthood...
Let's see if they can improve Romney's popularity. There's some things you just can't change--you can't make someone likable. Romney's recent remark about how "humorous" it was that his father tried to hide his closure of a factory in Michigan (for Pete's sake because he was running for office), oh man that was so funny.
Rubio sure hold himself in high regard. Listen up everybody the odds of a brokered GOP convention just went from possible to not gonna happen thanks to Rubio's endorsement.
Yeah I know! They are getting desperate.
Yeah AF, Like they did such a great job when their boy "W" was in charge. These clowns are relentless.
""Here's another nice mess you've gotten me into," Oliver Hardy
Obama/Biden 2012
Could there be any less enthusiasm in making an endorsement? "I'm going to endorse Romney because I just don't have anything else to do today; my shoes are shined; the windows washed; washed the car; hell - nothing else to do, I'll endorse Romney. Now hon, can we go to the store?"
Rubio wants to avoid a fight.
Or does he want to slow down the cannibalizing in the GOP.
Rubio may like him, sort of, but he still makes a good dog vommit.
Whatever......
Obama's last day in the White House is 1-20-13.
He'll have even more time to play golf, run around the world apologizing for accepting the Nobel Peace prize while he continued to wage wars, and drive that Chevy Volt assuming production ever starts again.
TO: Bob in Virginia-5210392 who wrote:
Well, but the fact is Marco Rubio DIDN'T give Romney ANY praise at all. By the looks of it, even Marco Rubio doesn't care for Romney. Rubio is just "taking one" for the GOP.
Obama / Biden 2012
How bad do you really have to stink to have your own party hold their noses?
"Why? Because Tito Jeb said so!"
A tepid endorsemant from Rubio and Fox and the Republican base acheives nirvana. Once again in thier small minds simply pushing a minority to the front of the stage will garner the vote of latinos. A few will be fooled but most have watched and listened to the Republicans demean them as a people and heard the dogwhistle of bigotry and racism that this party feeds on.
If Rubio was on your side of the street .... you would have different tune
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R) described his endorsement of Mitt Romney last night as motivated primarily by an interest to end the GOP campaign, and avoid a messy fight at the party’s summer convention.
Sorry, buddy, it is way too late! Poor Republican voter turnout and an economy just now recovering from the last Republican mistake makes your endorsement pretty much irrelevant.
Rubio is such a thorn.
Well there you go. The GOP is scared to DEATH of the thought of a brokered convention and they are doing everything they can think of to avoid it. At a brokered convention it would be impossible for the GOP to pull the voter fraud they have been pulling in EVERY caucus state and many others and we would have the possibility of getting a candidate we actually WANT instead of the one they are trying to shove down our throats.
8 missing counties in Iowa that NEVER got counted, several in Maine that were never added to the "straw vote" and now look at the fun in Missouri...and this kind of thing has happened in several counties. Looks like they have given up trying to even cover up their fraud at this point. Unless you call a no cameras rule a coverup, (In this day and age I find it hard to beleive any idiot would think that would work)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRtRTRJRDbo
TO: Bob in Virginia-5210392 who wrote:
No it won't, not as long as Republicans are the alternative.
I don't think you get it. Some folks may not mind being attacked by terrorists on American Soil, or they might not mind Republicans crashing the entire United States Economy, just as the terrorist Osama Bin Laden asked for, and there are other folks who haven't gotten over all that crap Republicans did to us, AND Republicans are STILL trying to steal our Social Security Retirement, and our Medicare, while Republicans continue to give more and more freebies away to the Top 1% Wealthiest in the Country!
Why would ANYBODY want the "culture of corruption" back in office who have told us STRAIGHT OUT what they're going to do us: repeal of women's rights, lower wages, repeal quality affordable health care, etc., EVERYTHING the American People need, Republicans are promising to take away.
You'd have to out of your ever-loving-mind to want ANY of the things contained in the Republicans' Platorm!
Obama / Biden 2012
American Girl - well said. Nothing looks toxic next to the GOP!
Americans are scared to death of another do-nothing, $5 trillion wasted four years by Obama.
No John, only the GOP drones are scared because they actually believe the crap that the GOP is trying to push. Like Santorum's Obamaville video, LOL, an instant classic in GOP fear mongering.
Santorum is a going-nowhere, loose-cannon wing-nut. We all know that.
Old GOP proverb: "Empty can rattle most."
Isn't it ironic the the party that is suppressing voters with differnet scenarios of fraud and scullduggery can only find examples by looking at thier own primaries and caucuses?
Americans are scared to death of another do-nothing, $5 trillion wasted four years by Obama.
Try as you will, you cannot rewrite history. Bush wasted $6T on two unfunded wars and spent 10 years searching for non-existent WMD's. In the process he trashed the strongest economy in the world. If Bush had never happened, we could be looking at a debt-free America about now.
And what's the Republican solution to our current economic woes? Why, more of the same, of course! Tax breaks for the rich, another war with Iran, no balanced budget until 2040 and legislated morality to ban abortion, contraception and gay rights.
This American is scared to death of another Republican administration!
TO: John-2032532 who wrote:
Republicans THRIVE on fear.
Obama / Biden 2012
@EEngineer...try as you will you cannot re-write the historical fact Obama has added $5 trillion to the national debt in 3 years. I thought he was going fix problems, not add to them. Hope? Change? Remember? Even Obama said "If I can't fix the economy, I'll be a one-term president."
What is the democrat plan, more of he the same deficit spending until the dollar collapses completely? More giveaways? More free rides? More taxes on the top 51% of wager earners until they throw up their hands and join the moocher class? Who pays your bills then?
I'm endorsing President Obama...
because we don't need another republican right now. Try 2016, maybe the President will have it all cleaned up and ready for republicans to wreck it again...
just like last time.
By all means--let the games begin! The Republican "brand" is already damaged--maybe even beyond redemption at this point. I don't believe that making Mitt the candidate is going to change that very much.
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Just wait a few months till ObamaCare is held unconstitutional.
The Obama brand will then be toxic.
The Obama brand will then be toxic.
That's the whole idea. Maybe the justices up at the Supreme Court will rule that the legislation is unconstitutional and then you can all sit back and watch our health care system bankrupt the country. But it's all good - so long as you get the black guy out of the White House.
Which is the whole idea behind this. The GOP. Always full of good practical ideas.
President Obama is already toxic to the Vaginal Probe people. President Obama is not willing to let America die for the 1%. When Norquist says all they need is a puppet to sign republican laws, of course they are unhappy with President Obama.
But to the rest of the majority that voted for President Obama we see all the lies and more lies that the republicans are spewing as that is all they have and even Bob the Vaginal Probe Queen knows that.
VOTE FOR FREEDOM AND AMERICA.....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
I don't think so Boob. first, everyone knows that the SCOTUS is well stocked with right wingers. If anything, it will anger a heck of a lot of people when they find out that they can't keep their kids on their insurance anymore, and the chance of getting health care for many people will be a dream that right wingers shattered. I've heard of people who have been turned down by insurers for bad acne. It doesn't take a lot for them to turn you down. If the health care bill is killed, it will kill a lot of Americans in the name of political posturing. Sad.
Wayne, they don't care. They just have to make the president look bad. At all costs.
And yes, if the health care bill is killed, it will kill a lot of Americans in te name of political posturing.
No question.
Agree Pat, I can't understand that by TeaPeople standards, they don't want to pay for the 'lay abouts', 'lazy', 'unemployed' so they fight against job creation, food stamps, unemployment benefits etc---
but the TeaPeople are thrilled to overturn the ACA.
Can't they realize that the really big financial ticket is health care, which we all pay for in the end, for the uninsured! Guess TeaPeople like paying for someone elses health care.
Ignorance is a happy place for TeaPeople!
Bob in Va
Tell us how the GOP benefits if Obamacare is found unconstitutional?
Do you think he will lose votes because it becomes invalid...hell, everyone against it now isn't planning on voting for him anyways.
You on the right are the ones who need to worry...let them find it unconstitutional - it will become the rallying cry of the left!
Besides Bob - all of the GOP candidates have said the repeal of HC would be their #1 priority in January....what will that now become? Certainly not providing "new jobs"!
Always be careful of what you wish for...
Dear bob: the part that elicited the most conversation from justices was the part the Republicans wrote. Ergo, it will be the Heritage Foundation et al that must answer for it.
But, no worries, we can just do what we should have done originally and get to single payer.
Teapublicans wear their ignorance as a badge of "honor." Very sad.
If this law is scrapped by SCOTUS, it will be many years before any health care bill is enacted. Perhaps we would have something within the next generation, but probably longer than that. Everyone will suffer in some way as a result. Even teapublicans.
Another day...another few thousand race cards from the left....sigh. Obama does not stand a chance of winning Florida., but not due to skin color. He won in 2008. Nobody wins the WH without FL. He won't win because of his record. He did two things, Obamacare and the stimulus, both big flops. He'll use race as the excuse, because nothing has ever been his fault, just ask him.
Americans First,
If you really beleive that's true you need to pull your head out of your you-know-what.
Have you heard of the Patriot Act? The NDAA? HR347 makiing it a FEDERAL OFFENSE to protest on Federal land or near anyone with secret service protection?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEDlr-jYTrc
It doesn't matter if you are a woman or not Obama has stripped you of more civil liberties than ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED!
Dear John, the Democrats didn't start the race card. The tea party did. And the Democrats are going to fight it tooth and nail. That's the one thing the TP gang doesn't like - that we fight back. They accuse us of using racism. Does birth certificate mean anything to you?
We're fighting back. Get used to it.
Pat in Boston's fruitcake response reminds one of the modern truth:
When a liberal cries "racism", he has lost the argument.
So, Pat , the Commerce Clause is racist. As well as any limitations on the power of the federal government: racist.
Nonsense. We know how at least 7 - probably 8 - justices will vote. But even his clerks couldn't say for sure how the ninth will vote. Anybody who says they know what the decision will be is viewing it through the lens of what they want it to be.
I'll tell you what Boob, I don't know anyone who will tell you they are a racist, but I will also tell you this. We know them by their posts on this website. They all love that elephant party. Not all republicans are racist, but all racists are republicans.
the part that elicited the most conversation from justices was the part the Republicans wrote. Ergo, it will be the Heritage Foundation et al that must answer for it. But, no worries, we can just do what we should have done originally and get to single payer.
Exactly.
AllVoices:
So if a single-payer health insurance system helps control costs and provides care for the entire population, why are Americans against it?
As with many new concepts, fear may be the driving force behind America's inadequate health care system. But that fear is unfounded and mostly fueled by the advertising of lobbyists who profit from the status quo.
Pat Boston MA - You are full of crap when you talk about the tea party starting the race card. Obama and his lackeys have been playing the race card every since Obama announced he was running for President. Even President Clinton (before there was a tea party) accused Obama of playing the race card.
nurse-1006475
If you don't believe the Democrat brand hasn't been tarnished also then why have registered democrats in the country dropped from 38% to 32%
I don't think that most of America believes in the two parties any longer after they see what we have become.
Pat fight all you want against racism the left made up. It's still a losing cause and a waste of time. The President's place of birth and heritage are two separate issues. Neither has ever been in doubt and I certainly do not think his heritage has hindered his political career.
really sfcret? So all that birther nonsense from the teabaggers was their way of congratulating this President on his election?
Pat: I am trying to think of a bill that has been more lied about than HCR. Most people are so caught up in the rumors, they don't know what it is or why it helps them.
Sad.
Talking about social issues all day certainly leaves little time for important fiscal issues. The left plays run out the clock, while the country sinks under her weight of Obama's deficits.
Obama doesn't know what he wants or what to do. He was against the individual mandate before Pelosi told him he was for it.
http://www.americancrossroads.org/2012/03/new-video-obama-v-obama-on-individual-mandate/
Daily Kos:
The House Republicans made their ultimate dystopian statement today, in passing Rep. Paul Ryan's budget in a 228-191 vote. Ten Republicans voted against it, no Democrats voted for it and 13 members did not vote.
House Speaker John Boehner called this plan "a real vision of what we were to do if we get more control here in this town. It's still a Democrat-run town."
Just a few reminders about the Ryan budget, and what the House Republicans put down as their political marker for 2012, their vision for a Republican-ruled America: It would give the wealthy a humongous tax break, the lowest tax rate since the Hoover administration; it would gut nutritional assistance, cutting it by 17 percent over the next decade; it would cut Medicare benefits and begin the process of killing the program; it would kill millions of jobs; it turns Medicaid into a block grant and deeply cuts federal spending for it, and for SCHIP, the children's health program; and it breaks the already agreed upon Budget Control Act of 2011, threatening, once again, a government shutdown.
This is also the budget endorsed by Mitt Romney. Today the Republicans made their most definitive statement for the America they envision. This is their platform for 2012, from the top down.
*************
Dear John: President Obama is actually quite popular, despite trying to paint him as someone other than American.
Perhaps the above news explains why.
I certainly believe he is American. He's not student council president. Popularity is not a measure historians place much weight on. He is an abysmal failure.
According to what measure? Keep in mind that Fox "News" is not an indicator of any repute.
1 million less jobs than Jan 2008
12% lower median household income that 2007
46 million on food stamps
I paid $4.19 per gallon for gas yesterday. What did you pay?
Git-mo still open
Afghanistan troop surge
Healthcare Bill getting canned by SCOTUS
Failed to repeal Bush Tax Cuts
Just filled the car and paid $3.50 a gallon.
You are attributing things to this President that are the fault of the excesses of the last administration. Of course, that would require honesty on your part to admit anything of the sort.
Face it. The guy can't get anything done. He is useless. He can't even get gas up to $8.00 per gallon like he wants.
Oh yeah...I forgot all the country's problems are Bush's fault. Even Obama quit trying to sell that a year ago. Where you been?
So what bothers you the most about your President, John, that he is a Democrat or that he is black?
Facts are facts. Bush decimated the country, with the wars off budget, and his excess spending, NONE of which the Republicans voted against. You can pretend in your little Fox "newsless" way that Bush's Presidency did not exist, but it did.
And it very nearly destroyed the country.
His incompetence is his worst and most glaring fault. His political party or heritage matter none. You asked. He is not growing into the job, either.
What nearly destroyed this country was the Clinton/Frank real estate bubble then turned depression, which was well-in the making when Bush took office. Clinton morphed the Community Reinvestment Act into "houses for everybody", a big giveaway of no-doc cheap mortgages, remember? they had to replenish the mortgage funds so they told Wall Street to "find a way" resulting in mortgage-backed securities, which failed under their own weight. In fact, Bush tried to stop it, but it was too late. He got caught holding the bag.
Obama had no idea what to do with the bag when he got it, which is obvious. On the job training is not a good idea for the POTUS.
Now be honest John, just answer New Day's question.
Typical... If you don't have anything worth while to attribute to the discussion... just throw in the race card... FFS! You are laughable man!
Of course, John, during the 8 years Bush was in office there was a daily effort by the Administration and the Republicans to scrap the "Clinton/Frank real estate bubble, right? Perhaps they went along with it because there was much money to be made. What we have now is the culmination of what has happened since 1980 and the greed is good attitude of some in this country.
John 203..... your ignorance is showing - again. He can't get a lot of what he wants done because of the obstructionist GOP. Amazingly he had made strides and our country is better because of it. He WILL win Florida again - the seniors down there are not stupid enough to vote GOP knowing they will cut SS and Medicare. He will also win NC and VA again as well as a few additional southern states. And, don't be surprised if he walks away with AZ. People there are getting tired of the stupidity of the people in charge in AZ. They don't like their state being a joke because of morons like their governor.
I know it's hard to believe that someone might not approve of the President's job so far. But less than a majority approve of his results, not his race or party. If he got solid, improving results in these trying times, then I would vote him two more terms, if I could.
If you want to characterize all opponents as less than sincere or objective, that is your problem, not mine and you don't help your candidate with character assassination of non-Obamaites. It's not about me or you. Its about the job Obama does, or in this case does not do.
John-203 ... actually his number for approval is rising each week and he is doing a good job. Could have done better had the GOP not decided they would do everything they could to make him a one-term President, to hell with the country! And, karma's a bitch - it's not going to work!
No, John, it is not about your President. It is about you believing the lies spun by the fringe right wing.
Let me answer my question for you: You don't like your President because he is both black and Democratic. All of you on the right believe that he is not entitled to the office. Why? Like Feisty says: he is not pale and stale.
Obama's re-election odds are 60% at www.intrade.com, where they are stuck. Why can't he go higher with the GOP "imploding"? Obama is the weakest incumbent since Carter. Business people understand increased corporate taxes will cripple the recovery. If he is re-elected we will have chronically high unemployment and taxes, probably for 10 or 20 years after he's gone.
John-2032532 - President Obama is still polling higher than any of the GOP disasters. He'll win and not have to worry about the far right during the 2nd term. The GOP is imploding and stands a very good chance of losing the House.
Believe what you want. I've got no problem with his skin color or political party. If his only problem was party affiliation and "pigmentation" as Spencer Tracy put it, then he will have no problem getting re-elected. So why are you so worried? You are worried about his poor job performance issues.
Polls mean nothing. You must have overslept the most recent referendum on the President's job performance in Nov. 2010, when the Dems got shellacked, losing 67 seats in the House. What has changed? Gas is more expensive......$2 trillion deeper in debt.
John-2032532 - no, we're actually pretty confident. The far right's hatred of everything that isn't male, straight and just plain over the top crazy is most likely going to sink them. And, his job performance has been good - considering the quagmire he walked into and the obstructionists he faced.
What has changed since 2010 is that now people see that the GOP just out and out lied about what they planned to do. They did NOTHING about jobs - didn't propose one damned thing. They just went about trying to decimate Obama. But, it's backfired and is biting them in the proverbiable ass! We see just how filled with hatred the far right is for anyone who doesn't walk lock-step in their hatred of anyone sane.
And, if polls mean nothing - why did you quote one?
I guess your idea of sanity is to run the national debt to unsustainable levels, throwing the country into default when a loaf of bread will cost $1 million?
Polls are conversational items, nothing more. One poll counts, on 11/6/12. The GOP house passed literally dozens of bills to improve the economy that died in the Senate, blah, blah we all know the story. Over 1,000 days since the Senate passed a budget, etc. Good luck selling that.
Have you noticed, John, that there has been a great deal of buyer's remorse, particularly from women, for putting teabaggers in Congress?
Women, minorities and everyone except old, white man, are fleeing the party in DROVES.
You like polls? The president is elected by each state's electoral votes. Nobody has won without Florida since Nixon. He is 1.8% ahead of Romney in Florida with gas going up.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/fl/florida_romney_vs_obama-1883.html
Newday have you noticed the buyers remorse from college students and young people for Obama? Who are GOP women going to vote for, Obama? LOL...I'm laughing....I'm laughing some more.
Obviously the economy still sux. Obama admits he's a one term president if he can't fix it.
http://www.therightscoop.com/flashback-if-i-dont-fix-the-economy-in-three-years-ill-be-a-one-term-president/
TO: John-2032532 who wrote:
You don't REALLY believe that any woman in her right mind is going to vote for Republicans to take absolute control over her uterus, do you?
Republicans must talk, and then think no one is listening.
Obama / Biden 2012
TO: John-2032532 who wrote:
Ha! I'm not as worried about gas prices going up as I am about Republicans stealing my Social Security, my Medicare, repealing women's rights, repealing the minumum wage, and all the rest of the devastation Republicans will claim to have a "mandate" to do that HURTS the American People.
That mess Republicans are trying to sell doesn't appeal to anybody except the Top 1% who will get more tax breaks, more tax cuts, and they'll be allowed to pollute our clean air, and poison our clean water.
Obama / Biden 2012
" they want dirty air...dirty water"
- Barack Obama
Don't believe everything he says. Nobody wants to control anyone's uterus and you know that. The left will not rest until this country cannot meet its obligations and everyone shares the collective misery equally.
1 million less jobs than Jan 2008 - hell, that's nothing! Bush lost more jobs than that in the last 3 months of his 2nd term.
12% lower median household income that 2007 - hell, that's nothing! Under Bush from 2000-2005, only 4% of workers had real income increases. Everyone else suffered!
46 million on food stamps - and you can thank Bush and a Republican majority in both houses for that, too! Trash the economy, put people on food stamps.
I paid $4.19 per gallon for gas yesterday. What did you pay? - that still doesn't match the high for gas prices during the Bush admin = $4.50 per gallon
Git-mo still open - due to Republican resistance in the House. Lessee, who opened Gitmo in the first place? That's right, Bush!
Afghanistan troop surge - yeah, after 10 years, someone is actually trying to win the war!
Healthcare Bill getting canned by SCOTUS - yet to be seen.
Failed to repeal Bush Tax Cuts - again, due to Republican resistance in the House. Bush tax cuts just about says it all
Nope, sorry, I can't find one thing that would be better off under a Republican administration!
"end the GOP campaign, and avoid a messy fight at the party’s summer convention"
Wow! Rising Star Rubio is now the arbiter/referee of all things TeaPeople!
Get those TeaPeople in line Marco!
Does that mean he doesn't really endorse Mutt or someone twisted his arm or he pulled a name out of a hat?
Does his endorsement carry any weight at all now?
He endorses just to avoid a fistfight at the convention. No one endorses because s/he loves or beleives in Mitt. Maybe they all have the uneasy feeling that I get in my gut when I think of Mitt as president. There is something sinister about Mitt!
He held out to endorse only to secure his position for VP
Rubio pretty much announced he doesn't want to be on the ticket with the way he worded his so-called endorsement.
He's obviously looking to 2016 unencumbered by any connection to a current or former candidate.
Hillary will be President from 2016-2024, so they need to concentrate on 2024. Obama/Biden 2012
Rubio is not yet ready for higher office, plain and simple.
Rubio is suggesting the Republicans can't win this year--Christie will be the Veep nominee.
Um...No, but you are.
Unfortunately, Senator Rubio, whether not a floor fight or brokered convention occurs is going to depend less on what you want and more on what Mr. Santorum and Mr. Gingrich want.
They will just fight anyway. The procedural committee will have to decide if women should be allowed to speak from the podium and where the guy with the sombrero should stand to catch the attention of the media.
Ricky Rubio is the true Rubio.
Rubio knows that the GOP candidates have already done so much damage to themselves, that he just wants the inevitable to happen, the Romney nomination.
I would be shocked if Rubio excepted the VP spot, because he knows that Romney is going to lose!
I still don't think Romney is inevitable. Rubio is still in contention for the nominee position if Romney can't get to the 1144 delegates. Simply put Rubio should have just kept his mouth shut. Endorsing Romney in this manner does more to hurt the Republican party than it helps.
Endorsing Romney in this manner does more to hurt the Republican party than it helps.
How could you possibly hurt the Republican party more than the clowns they have running?
Remember that line from "Game Change" where McCain says to Palin,"Don't get corrupted by Limbaugh and the other extremists. They will destroy the party if you let them."? You are seeing the truth of this prediction. What an absolute dysfunctional mess this party has become. The worse screenwriters in the world couldn't write a worse reality show script.
you libs want me to pay for your health care, your willing to give your freedom for a free ride, funny i dont think this is the same country i grew up in
jockland, aren't those with insurance already paying for those without? Maybe it's time to junk the whole 'free enterprise' health care system and join the 21st Century with the rest of of the industrialized world.
R-money / R-unethical, great ticket - for me to poop on.
Jockland, nobody is asking poor little selfish you to pay for their healthcare. You see the "Obamacare" is labeled AFFORDABLE healtcare act. Not freebee, not gimmy, not you pay for me but AFFORDABLE health care. If there wasn't so much greed by insurance companies the AHA wouldn't be necessary but because they chose to be greedy and to be bad citizens we have to make them do the right thing.
I have been paying into Social Secuity and Medicare for over 40 years. I have put in MY money and expect to get something out of it. I have had insurance through employers which used to be affordable. Not any more. Many companies just aren't offering it any more because neither their employees or the company can afford the premiums. Even some unions are renegotiating contracts where employees must pay more for insurance coverage or the company goes belly up. The bottom line is insurance costs too much and this is an attempt to make it affordable.
jockland - I'm always amazed that you morons think you are giving any of us "a free ride." I work and support myself; pay my own bills; buy my own insurance, etc. Where do you get your stupid arrogance that makes you think you're paying for any of us?
Most of us are helping to pay for those who are less fortunate and I don't regret that. Over 50% of the homeless are our vets that we've let down. But, I'm sure you think they're getting a "free ride" too! What a total, ignorant, stupid, jerk!
This is just a failing gimmick to boost the falling popularity numbers of Mitt compared to the president's.
the scotus is talking about half a loaf verses full loaf thats funny i didnt think the scotus was in the legisiation business
Declaring that corporations are people sounds like being in the legislation business doesn't it?
jockland, this SCOTUS apparently is. We've seen it already.
Rubio really endorsed because he wants the VP slot....
R-money / R-unethical, great ticket - for me to poop on.
It is so depressing... even for 2016 I dont see any good Republican candidates, here is a guess list.
Perry
Huntsman
Pawlenty
Palin
Christie
Huckabee
Rubio
Ryan
Daniels
Haley
and wont be surprised if Santorum and Romney run again.
Romney will run again in 2016...for re-election.
'Republican establishment' and Tea Party are going to make sure that Romney does not win in 2012.
Pawlenty and Huntsman are okay. Not the best, but def not the worst. We'll have to see what happens and who the Dems put up against em. The problem is that Huntsman and TPawl are too moderate for the current Tea Party situation, there's little chance they'd ever get the nomination while the TP is still relevant.
By 2016 Tea Party would have become weak. Huntsman seemed good choice for 2012 but republicans in Iowa and New Hampshire are still old fashioned (in their 60s maybe) and pushed thru Romney.
Bob in V #18.1
You say "Romney will be running for reelection in 2016".....
I think you are right - as As the incumbent President of the Boca Raton Homeowners Association"....
gurudev - I actually like Huntsman but he's not radically right so unless the GOP wises up he doesn't have a chance. Plus, Hillary will be running and is going to be hard to beat.
Bob in VA - I'm still laughing!!! Romney couldn't get elected to clean toilets - way above his intelligence level!
R-money / R-unethical, great ticket - for me to poop on.
Oh you must be from Occupy
GOP seems to be Unoccupied with the Federal Deficit - No New Ideas or Solutions.
GOP = Goodbye Old Party!
Who cares who endorses Romney it is their opinion only, I never pay attention to who endorses might not be my choice. But one thing is for sure, Romney will not make it to th white house, when push comes to shove by the people, he will never win.
Oh good. I'm writing that down right now.
Ultimately, you have to expect the Republican establishment to endorse whoever their candidate is. You can't have them breaking party lines and saying vote for Obama over Romney because Romney would be even a worse choice. Wait didn't Santorum already do that? Oh wait. He took it back, after people flogged him for it.
Wow, what a ringing endorsement for the Mittster. Yeah, I'm just endorsing him so there's not a fight at the convention, cause that would be catastrophic, cause you know how much we wanna beat Obama and we don't care how we have to do it, and maybe the Mittster will really like me and ask me to be VP, cause we really need those Latino votes, and who cares if I lied about when my parents left Cuba anyway, and.................well, you rightwingers get the point, right?
ABO
Republicans are fooling themselves if they think selecting Rubio as a VP is going to secure the Latino vote. Maybe for most Cubans and Puerto Ricans who dont have to worry about immigration. And those two sections of voting Latinos represent a minority. Cant wait to see Rubio go up against Biden. A white guy defending the Dream Act and a Latino presenting his case against it. Spanish television will have his ass and whatever Obama got as far as votes from Latinos will be nothing in comparison to what they will get once Latinos see this on Telemundo hahaha..
Obama/Biden 2012
No, you are fooling yourself into thinking the GOP thinks that. How about Susana Martinez? I don't care who Biden debates he loses. He's an idiot. I hope Obama really quit smoking.
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/29/149594586/latina-gov-a-rising-star-just-not-to-some-hispanics
what about Martinez? the single most importat issue for Latinos after the economy is the Dream Act. Are you saying she is against it too? please explain?
http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news-politics/exclusive-susana-martinez-im-very-proud-what-ive-accomplished-latina
I'm not sure you understand that this country is broke, bankrupt. We can't afford dream acts, nightmare acts, affordable healthcare acts or any other giveaway legistlation.
So in short Rubio is saying that he is endorsing whoever is the front runner. This isn't an endorsement as much as a plea to end it.
That would be correct... and let's do end this soon!
Rubio is for Rubio and friends only - nothing more / nothing less.... Do not let him get behind you or you will see exactly what I am talking about. Florida politicians are about as low as you can get - I've heard they've banded together to form an LLC - "Limited Liability Crooks".
Rubio, I hate to tell you that you endorsement means nothing, who the hell is Rubio, isn't he the one that fought Castro to get out of Cuba before Castro was in charge. Another smoke and mirror republican trying to make a name for his self. If our going to lie Rubio,why not state the you were in hand to hand combat with Castro and you and your family swam to Florida, could get you an extra vote. I am Latino and I sure the hell wouldn't vote for Rubio, not even as a garbage collector.
well said