Rubio's handlers are trying to make him sound like Ron Paul

[itshappening]

"We must get the national debt under control. Tax increases will not solve our $16 trillion debt. Only economic growth and a reform of entitlement programs will help control the debt.

"We must reform our complicated, uncertain, job-killing tax code, by getting rid of unjustified loopholes. But our goal should be to generate new revenue by creating new taxpayers, not new taxes.

"We must follow a balanced approach to regulations. Regulations are needed, but they cost money to follow. The more expensive a regulation is, the less money a business has leftover to give raises or hire new people.

"We must not let American innovation in our energy industry go to waste. We have the potential for all kinds of new middle class jobs--from the fields and platforms where we drill, to the manufacturing plants that will return to the U.S. with the lower cost of energy. But we need government to encourage these job opportunities, not continue to block them.

"A return to sound monetary policy would also help by making the future value of a dollar more predictable.

"And we must get the cost of health insurance under control. You should be able to get a health care plan that fits your needs and your budget, from any company in America that's willing to sell it to you, and with the same tax benefit if you buy it yourself or have an employer buy it for you."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/rubio-tax-increases-will-not-solve-our-16-trillion-debt_665212.html
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"sound monetary policy" I wonder where that came from! The great thinker Sen. Rubio came up with that all by himself or are his handlers trying to blunt Sen. Rand Paul and co-opt some of the language and policies which we know they will never implement but will work to make him look just as good ?

[Matt Collins]

Monetary policy is very predictable as it is now.... we know which direction the value of the dollar is going at all times (it ain't up).

[itshappening]

He's offering empty soundbites and rhetoric. People will fall for it though.

Rand could ask him what he wants to cut. This usually has Republicans like him mumbling furiously about savings from entitlement reform.

They can never bring themselves to admit large parts of the gov't must be shut down, including entire departments.

[Sola_Fide]

"Sound monetary policy" to them means a little less printing and a little less bailouts than under the current regime. No thanks.

[dinosaur]

I wonder just who Rubio's handler's are. He won alot of support by positioning himself as tea party. But the people responsible for this positioning are Bush era RINOs. I wonder if it would convince anyone that he isn't who he says he is if they found out just who his handlers are?

Here is one of them.


Conda is a well-known and highly regarded policy wonk, with experience in the executive branch as well as on Capitol Hill. He worked closely with Rubio during the fall campaign, advising the candidate on policy and serving as a key player on Rubio’s debate prep team. After the election, Conda helped run the transition, a job that included putting together the staff he will now lead.
Conda served as the top domestic policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney during the first two years of the Bush administration. In that capacity, he played a critical behind-the-scenes role in conceiving the Bush tax cuts and Bush economic policy more broadly. When Cheney engaged in a quiet debate with his old friend Fed chairman Alan Greenspan about whether bigger deficits lead to growing interest rates, he tasked Conda to prepare his response to a study Greenspan sent.
Before joining the Bush administration, Conda worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Spence Abraham from Michigan (when Abraham was a freshman) and Senator Bob Kasten from Wisconsin. In the private sector, he worked as an analyst for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and, more recently, was a co-founder of “Navigators,” a public affairs firm.http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/marco-rubio-picks-chief-staff-cesar-conda_537520.html

[itshappening]

Yes dinosaur, Conda endorsed Jane Norton in the COGOP Senate primary and claimed Buck was extreme on foreign policy and that "we dont need more Rand Paul's in the US Senate".

The Bush people and neocons are behind Rubio. Most of his staff worked for the Bush administration.

So that's all you need to know.

This is easily verifiable if you want to research it.