Pro-Amnesty Rubio Wants to be President

Well, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has announced that he’s running for president, and like Rand Paul who went all liberal on us and sided with RINOs after originally being supported by the Tea Party, I’m unimpressed.

After initially looking like a very good conservative, Rubio decided to veer Left and push amnesty on America. Hate to say it, but lawlessness is NOT a conservative principle.

Longtime conservative Richard Viguerie is also unimpressed and wonders, if Rubio were to get elected, which “Rubio” would show up for inauguration day?

This is the Marco Rubio who betrayed the Tea Party movement and grassroots conservative voters who elevated him to the Senate over establishment Republican, turned Independent, and finally turned Democrat Charlie Crist.
This is the Marco Rubio who became the chief spokesman and advocate for a bill that would have put millions of illegal aliens on the path to citizenship to eventually become part of a new Democratic-majority electorate.

This is the Marco Rubio who prompted Florida conservative commentator Javier Manjarres of the Shark Tank and Hispolitica to observe, “What most people don’t know about Rubio is that he has always supported a pathway to citizenship.”

This is the Marco Rubio who helped craft a bill that gave millions of dollars in taxpayer money to anti-conservative race-based organizations, such as La Raza, to help them promote amnesty for illegal aliens.

This is the Marco Rubio who, judging by the “who do you walk with rule,” which is CHQ Richard Viguerie’s foolproof test of whether or not a candidate is a conservative, is definitely no conservative, having staffed his office with anti-conservatives, such as Communications Director Alex Burgos, a longtime amnesty proponent, and other establishment Republican insiders, rather than the boat-rocking Tea Partiers that provided the manpower for Rubio’s upstart campaign against Governor Charlie Crist.

And this is the Marco Rubio who used the language of the Left in a slash and burn campaign against conservatives. As RedState’s Erick Erickson put it, Rubio was an active participant in the attacks on conservative opponents of the “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill as “racists, slavery supporters, bigots, haters, baby killers, un-Christian, etc. They are waging a coordinated attack between Senator Rubio’s office and others against conservative stalwarts like the Heritage Foundation and Jim DeMint.”

The “they” to whom Erickson refers was an unholy alliance of establishment Republicans, business interests and New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, Illinois Democratic Senator Richard Durbin and a host of other left-leaning political operatives and interest groups.

I wonder, too. No, actually, I really don’t. I’ve seen enough “Republicans” who gave us more than enough clues before being elected that they actually had liberal leanings to know that if you behave like a liberal before you get elected to the office you want, you’re definitely going to behave that liberally-or more-after you get the office you want.

I’m getting really tired of candidates who depend on the voters to be ignorant and/or stupid in order to get elected. I don’t need to bother looking at Rubio any further than his promotion of lawless amnesty. We don’t need to settle for candidates who are good in one area, but have demonstrated they are the enemy of conservative principles in other areas.

So far, I’ve only seen one candidate who’s announced for president who hasn’t pandered to the Left generally and to the amnesty crowd specifically, and that’s Senator Ted Cruz. It’s pretty clear and easy to figure out who I’m supporting for president in 2016.

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Bob Ellis has been the owner of media company Dakota Voice, LLC since 2005. He is a 10-year U.S. Air Force veteran, a political reporter and commentator for the past decade, and has been involved in numerous election and public policy campaigns for over 20 years. He was a founding member and board member of the Tea Party groups Citizens for Liberty and the South Dakota Tea Party Alliance. He lives in Rapid City, South Dakota with his wife and two children.

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