Sen. Rubio (R-FL) Names Former Cheney Aide Chief of Staff

[bobbyw24]

Sen. Marco Rubio (pictured), R-Fla., has chosen his chief of staff — Cesar Conda, a former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney and an economic adviser to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign, Politico reports.

Conda served as a top aide on Rubio’s Senate campaign and on the official transition team. He previously worked as an assistant to Vice President Dick Cheney on domestic policy, and as a top aide for former Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich.

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Rubio-Cheney-Aide-Staff/2011/01/28/id/384277

[Sola_Fide]

This guy is trash...

[vita3]

Jeb Bush introduced him in his acceptance speech.

Great job by the neo-cons of giving him the cover of the "tea-party"

[Matt Collins]

The GOP is going to try an make him VP on the next ticket, especially if Romney wins.

[Sola_Fide]

The GOP is going to try an make him VP on the next ticket, especially if Romney wins.

That is when myself and the majority of the Tea Party bolts from the Republican party.

I can't wait to see the fireworks between the grass roots and the establishment if this happens:)

[lester1/2jr]

Why not Scooter LIbby?

[sailingaway]

The GOP is going to try an make him VP on the next ticket, especially if Romney wins.

It won't work. And they might go for Rand when they figure that out. Not sure I'm hot on that but it will depend on the top of the ticket, if Ron doesn't win.

But Rubio isn't going to be seen as tea party by the time of the 2012 election. Rand is showing him up way too much.

[HOLLYWOOD]

This is the whore that Marco Rubio collaborated with co-opted phony Tea Party Organizations that are covertly backed by the NEOCON/FASCIST establishment money. Tea Party Express, Patriot Action Network, Feedom Works...

RM&R(Russo Marsh + Rogers) the NEOCON political marketing firm out of Sacramento, CA is used by all these fronts.

RM&R Sacramento, CA

The Sacramento-based GOP political consulting firm Russo Marsh and Rogers (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russo_Marsh_and_Rogers&action=edit&redlink=1) founded the Tea Party Express through its political action committee Our Country Deserves Better (OCDB) in the summer of 2009. Russo Marsh and Rogers is a campaign consultancy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_manager) specializing in promoting neo-conservative candidates and causes. Sal Russo of Russo Marsh and Rogers serves as the chief strategist for Tea Party Express. Russo worked on a range of establishment Republican campaigns going back three decades. He was an aide to Ronald Reagan when Reagan was governor of California. Russo has also worked for Orrin Hatch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrin_Hatch), Jack Kemp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kemp), and George Pataki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pataki).



Tea Party Express co-founder Howard Kaloogian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Kaloogian) is a former California state lawmaker and onetime congressional candidate whose campaign was marred with controversy when a picture posted on his website of a quiet-looking street scene as "proof" that the situation in Iraq was far safer than the media was reporting was revealed in some media reports to have actually been taken in Turkey.



Kaloogian was also a force behind the successful 2003 campaign to Recall California Gov. Gray Davis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis).


Kaloogian and Russo also founded the conservative group Move America Forward (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move_America_Forward).


Russo Marsh and Rogers has been a financial beneficiary of Tea Party Express' success. According to Federal Election Commission (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Election_Commission) filings, more than 75% of the money spent by the PAC, about $1 million out of $1.3 million spent, went to Russo, Marsh or King Media Group, which has close ties to Russo.

[specsaregood]

But Rubio isn't going to be seen as tea party by the time of the 2012 election.
I don't think he cares. He got his way into the Senate and part of royalty. He's there for life now.

[Agorism]

The scam has already been sold as he now has 6 year term. The Teapartiers got Bush'ed again.

[Agorism]

The Tea Party got fleeced by the Marco Rubio candidacy. Fooled again


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OST_yFbuDrk

[sailingaway]

I don't think he cares. He got his way into the Senate and part of royalty. He's there for life now.

Oh, I know. He's thrown his dice with the tea party being the flavor of the month, but we've never had the sort of long term economic pressure we have now. I just meant in terms of them grooming him for the next step. They wanted him to be Reagan to Ron's Goldwater, but Rand kinda blew that idea out of the water.

[Fozz]

Cesar Conda is very pro-war, and he hates Rand Paul for being "weak on defense" or "isolationist".

I've been having a feeling that Marco Rubio dislikes Rand Paul, and this strengthens the evidence.

[sailingaway]

Cesar Conda is very pro-war, and he hates Rand Paul for being "weak on defense" or "isolationist".

I've been having a feeling that Marco Rubio dislikes Rand Paul, and this strengthens the evidence.

Rand telling reporters to 'call my office' when they asked him to comment on Rubio not joining the caucus made me wonder...Rand is rarely at a loss for words.....

[Guitarzan]

First comment at at story about this on the St Petersburg Times:

A Neocon walked into a bar with a duck under his arm.

The bartender saw them and said
Hey what are you doing bringing that pig in here?

The Neocon answere : That is not a pig : it is a duck.

And the bartender replied : I was talking to the duck !


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[ctiger2]

Didn't Rubio fly to Israel almost right after his election win? Yeah, that's what I thought....

[Fozz]

Rand telling reporters to 'call my office' when they asked him to comment on Rubio not joining the caucus made me wonder...Rand is rarely at a loss for words.....

Cesar Conda is one of those neocons who believes that national security is the one issue which is too important for any Republican to disagree on.

[Fozz]

Here's what Rubio's new chief of staff had to say about Rand Paul

hxxp://www.nationalreview.com/corner/196854/cheney-endorses-real-conservative-grayson-contd/cesar-conda

What a piece of shit.....both Conda and Rubio.

[Fozz]

Here's what Conda said right after Rand's primary

"Rand Paul represents a very small minority of conservatives, whose views on foreign policy, national security, and the war on terror are more aligned with President Obama than with the Republican Party. One primary victory by one naïve and ill-informed Republican candidate certainly does not signal the end of the muscular foreign policy that kept us safe for almost eight years. Every recent major poll on national security issues shows the "Cheney" view on national security and combating terrorism is shared by a majority of Americans, not just Republicans. The blueprint for a winning GOP campaign is not Rand Paul's, but rather Scott Brown's in Massachusetts, who as POLITICO reported "repeatedly railed against criminal trials for terrorism suspects, took out a television ad opposing giving “rights to terrorists who want to harm us” and declared that he did not view water-boarding as torture."

http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Cesar_Conda_2FCEC3AB-1FAC-41D0-AA85-7FC8B7AD0227.html

[johnrocks]

I never cared for this guy, now I know why, he's a neo con in a tea bag suit.

[Fozz]

Cesar Conda is the one who originally said that Rand Paul is "not one of us" on national security.

http://www.yaliberty.org/posts/top-cheney-aide-opposes-rand-paul-says-hes-not-one-of-us-on-the-global-war-on-terror
http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/03/17/neocons-target-rand-paul/

Paul and Rubio are NOT going to get along.

[Fozz]

I never cared for this guy, now I know why, he's a neo con in a tea bag suit.

Marco Rubio is the quintessential teocon.

[Humanae Libertas]

The scam has already been sold as he now has 6 year term. The Teapartiers got Bush'ed again.

The Tea Party Candidates' have always been Bush puppets packaged as Liberty candidates.

One more reason why I didn't, and still don't, trust the Tea Party.

[therepublic]

The GOP has sent some of their top infiltrators to infiltrate my local Tea Party. Ken Underwood has been used before to do some of the Bush Boys dirty work, and you can read about his payment for that work at the link below.

http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2010-03-31/story/state-printing-contract-ponte-vedra-beach-company-comes-under-fire (http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2010-03-31/story/state-printing-contract-ponte-vedra-beach-company-comes-under-fire)

He has managed to become quite influential in the local Tea Party, and even managed to get them to write the new governor to save his contract mentioned in the above link. I do not think they know all the facts about this man.

[Anti Federalist]

The GOP is going to try an make him VP on the next ticket, especially if Romney wins.

Yeah, probably.

That'll probably guarantee another 4 years of Obama.

You won't get me on the Romney/Rubio bandwagon.

[Anti Federalist]

The scam has already been sold as he now has 6 year term. The Teapartiers got Bush'ed again.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAxTTt7BDq4

[Agorism]

Tea Party voters already have it in their schedule to get fooled again. Getting fooled again is normally scheduled years in advance for the Tea Partiers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ufa-q7DcWM

[sailingaway]

Tea Party voters already have it in their schedule to get fooled again. Getting fooled again is normally scheduled years in advance for the Tea Partiers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ufa-q7DcWM

It needs to be updated. Note the ludicrous ' had enough, vote Democrat!' in the middle, with the congress that votes just the same. I thought it was going to end up being irony before it ended without making that connection.

[Matt Collins]

The scam has already been sold as he now has 6 year term. The Teapartiers got Bush'ed again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A

[Matt Collins]

It won't work. And they might go for Rand when they figure that out. Not sure I'm hot on that but it will depend on the top of the ticket, if Ron doesn't win.

But Rubio isn't going to be seen as tea party by the time of the 2012 election. Rand is showing him up way too much.Yeah but they can market him as "conservative" (especially as opposed to Romney) and try to force it. It'll give FL to the Republicans which will be enough to win. Besides they want the Hispanic vote so bad they can taste it.

[Agorism]

Ya the video is awesome. It just needs to be remade.

[Brian4Liberty]

"That piece of shit up there, I never like him, I never trust him...For all I know, he had us set-up..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOXXYEmv-90


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOXXYEmv-90

[amy31416]

Yeah, probably.

That'll probably guarantee another 4 years of Obama.

You won't get me on the Romney/Rubio bandwagon.

Really? Thank God. I was very concerned that you'd been hornswaggled by these shysters... :p

[HOLLYWOOD]

Well, We can say this is a lie, because Obama has escalated everything in AFGHANISTAN and stated that we will be there nation building past 2014. So it shows you the propaganda and manipulation of the paradox these ministers of propaganda spew in sound bite for the ignorant public.

Obama has not only taken more civil liberties and freedoms away, he and holder have taken immunity of government to the highest levels. There's still 50,000 troops plus all the hired mercenaries still in Iraq. Obama has grown the personnel in all 4 branches of government, Obama has increased the Department of Defense budget more now, then under the height of the policing/nation conquering by Dubya Bush & ChickenHawk Cheney. Obama renewed the Patriot Act, gave more secrecy and control to government under the FISA Act. Obama is building new missile batteries in Eastern Europe. Obama renewed even more military to countries around the world, especially Israel, where there has been $100's of millions in addition to the annual billions.

Conda is full of shit if he wants to compare Rand to Obama... as the Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF) has stated, "OBAMA: Worst than Bush"

Maybe Conda should revise his statements to: Rand is not into Global Imperial Empire and Nation Building under Tyranny and Totalitarian manipulations on weaker nations.


RIGHT NOW: It looking that there's no difference between Democrat and Republicans controlling the nation and or the world. Imagine That! :rolleyes:


Here's what Conda said right after Rand's primary

"Rand Paul represents a very small minority of conservatives, whose views on foreign policy, national security, and the war on terror are more aligned with President Obama than with the Republican Party. One primary victory by one naïve and ill-informed Republican candidate certainly does not signal the end of the muscular foreign policy that kept us safe for almost eight years. Every recent major poll on national security issues shows the "Cheney" view on national security and combating terrorism is shared by a majority of Americans, not just Republicans. The blueprint for a winning GOP campaign is not Rand Paul's, but rather Scott Brown's in Massachusetts, who as POLITICO reported "repeatedly railed against criminal trials for terrorism suspects, took out a television ad opposing giving “rights to terrorists who want to harm us” and declared that he did not view water-boarding as torture."

http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Cesar_Conda_2FCEC3AB-1FAC-41D0-AA85-7FC8B7AD0227.html

[Anti Federalist]

Really? Thank God. I was very concerned that you'd been hornswaggled by these shysters... :p

Them sneaky fargin' bastiches can really beguile a person.

I'm glad you're keeping an eye on me.

Poke me with a sharp stick if I start to fall off the wagon, OK?

:p;):D:collins:

[Sola_Fide]

The Tea Party Candidates' have always been Bush puppets packaged as Liberty candidates.

One more reason why I didn't, and still don't, trust the Tea Party.

I know this is the popular thinking around here, but I don't think it is true....not for Rand or Lee.

Look at the people making the headlines: its Rand right now! You don't see Rubio talking about all these new ideas every night on the news shows do you?

We have the power to make the Tea Party what we want it to be.

[K466]

I did not vote for Rubio, thankfully. Too bad we didn't get Senator Alexander Snitker.

Rubio doesn't really have anything to do with the tea party. He's just another politician.

[Elwar]

I did not vote for Rubio, thankfully. Too bad we didn't get Senator Alexander Snitker.

Rubio doesn't really have anything to do with the tea party. He's just another politician.

+1

I voted for Snitker.

[ZanZibar]

birds of a feather?

[moderate libertarian]

This guy is trash...

I would have used the word "scum" but you were being too kind.