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AuH20
11-10-2012, 11:49 AM
Need to start circulating this pronto:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-marco-rubio/2012/06/15/gJQAkbn8eV_story.html


Lost in all the tea party hoopla is Rubio’s long history as a rank-and-file Republican. In his 20s, he served as a county chairman for Bob Dole’s 1996 presidential campaign. In his early 30s, while in the legislature, he established a reputation as a savvy insider and partisan pit bull for one of his mentors, then-House Speaker Johnnie Byrd.

By the time Rubio ran for the Senate in his late 30s, he was a force in Florida GOP politics and had entree to Republican royalty through his close relationship with Gov. Jeb Bush.



Rubio swept into office arguing against big government. Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee endorsed him, saying Rubio was committed to “holding down spending, keeping taxes low and not believing that . . . government handouts is the way to build an economy.” After Rubio was elected, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) placed him on his “wall of fame” for early opposition to earmarks.

But Rubio wasn’t always against earmarks. In 2001 and 2002, he was one of the biggest earmark requestors in the Florida legislature, a distinction that vanished when he stopped seeking them the next year.

Later, he got off to a rocky start as House speaker when he spent nearly $400,000 on office renovations. Rubio wasn’t the first speaker to order up an office makeover, and he wasn’t the biggest spender, but he was lambasted in newspaper editorials because he seemed to be contradicting the gospel of fiscal conservatism that he’d preached in his book “100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future.”

Bob Dole and Jeb Bush. Nuff said.

Matt Collins
11-11-2012, 06:45 PM
RPOF / Jim Greer credit cards, Aspen Institute, and cap-and-tax.

HOLLYWOOD
11-11-2012, 10:17 PM
2 page article and there's nothing about him coming out of the mannequin mold from the ASPEN Institute.

The one of the factories that creates the political MATRIX.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/all/themes/aspeninstitute/images/logos/the_aspen_institute.gif

Confederate
11-11-2012, 10:35 PM
He was an intern for Ileana Ros-Lehtinen when he was a law student.

AGRP
11-11-2012, 10:39 PM
Wasn't there a credit card issue with the Paul campaign? There was a thread on it. Wheres the thread?

erowe1
11-11-2012, 10:43 PM
the gospel of fiscal conservatism that he’d preached in his book “100 Innovative Ideas for Florida’s Future.”

I'm pretty sure that book is nothing but cover-to-cover ways to centrally manage the economy.

Confederate
11-11-2012, 10:51 PM
I'm pretty sure that book is nothing but cover-to-cover ways to centrally manage the economy.

And ghostwritten.

angelatc
11-11-2012, 10:53 PM
Wasn't there a credit card issue with the Paul campaign? There was a thread on it. Wheres the thread?

Not the Paul campaign, per se. The Florida GOP had a go-round with the Ron Paul supporters, who (as I remember it, and understood it) got involved in the party, and blew the whistle on some financial improprieties. The guy running the FLGOP booted them out, right before other people started asking about the credit card expenditures.

Shane Harris
11-11-2012, 10:57 PM
What is the Aspen Institute and why is it bad?

Matt Collins
11-12-2012, 07:54 AM
What is the Aspen Institute and why is it bad?It's a globalist enviromental "nonpartisan" think tank that is partially funded by Soros. But do your own research.

Matt Collins
11-12-2012, 07:55 AM
Not the Paul campaign, per se. The Florida GOP had a go-round with the Ron Paul supporters, who (as I remember it, and understood it) got involved in the party, and blew the whistle on some financial improprieties. The guy running the FLGOP booted them out, right before other people started asking about the credit card expenditures.Yes, his name is Jim Greer (Google it) and his trial starts very soon. They delayed it until after the election.