Marco Rubio: The next John McCain

[DonViejo]

Marco Rubio: The next John McCain

Abandoning his own immigration bill, he hopes to take McCain/Romney flip-flop path to the nomination. It won't work

BY JOAN WALSH

Sen. Marco Rubio is revving up his 2016 presidential campaign by abandoning the immigration reform bill he helped craft. Over the weekend his spokesman told Breitbart News that he no longer wants to see a House and Senate conference committee try to craft a comprehensive reform bill; he now favors a series of piecemeal steps that will beef up enforcement and border security and do nothing to create pathways to citizenship – since that’s the aspect of the Senate bill House Republican extremists just won’t accept.

That Rubio revealed his plans in an “exclusive” with Breitbart News – spokesman Alex Conant sent a similar email to Politico and TPM — proves that his goal is pandering to the wingnuts.

This isn’t the first time Rubio has changed his mind about immigration reform, so maybe it won’t be the last. Think Progress has an excellent timeline of the way Rubio has already flipped and flopped on what was supposed to be his signature issue, just in the last 10 months. He refused to say whether he supported his own bill up until mid June, then voted for the product of the so-called “Gang of Eight” (of which he was a member) on June 27. But just as a coalition of business groups and moderate Republicans are gearing up to push the comprehensive reform bill he helped draft, Rubio decides it’s a non-starter.

The Plum Line’s Greg Sargent notes that Rubio’s move is just more evidence that the GOP doesn’t want to be a governing party – it prefers grandstanding and playing to its far right, and that’s especially true of most of its 2016 hopefuls.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/28/marco_rubio%E2%80%99s_dumb_2016_gambit_still_wont_please_ted_cruz_or_tea_party/

[gopiscrap]

1. ah, no!

I can't stand McCain but at least he had some gravitas. Fully true or not, the years he spent in Hanoi as a pow gave him a sense of stature....plus Rubio has a problem with bullshitting about his family narrative.

[appleannie1]

2. Marco, you are not fit to wipe McCain's boots. In some areas McCain has a sense of integrity. You

on the other hand, have nothing even close to integrity.

[murielm99]

3. Brietbart News?

Okay....

[beerandjesus]

5. Ha! A new oxymoron...

like "military intelligence"

or "Justice Scalia"!

[dipsydoodle]

4. Yes - he's the one with poor memory.

Said his parents left Cuba after the revolution when in fact they left some years before that.