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Schlafly unloads on Rubio: ‘He betrayed us all’

Posted on February 6, 2016 | Comments Off on Schlafly unloads on Rubio: ‘He betrayed us all’

Conservative icon calls media favorite ‘lackey for the establishment’

In 2009, Marco Rubio was a plucky challenger for the open Senate seat in Florida, taking on incumbent Republican Gov. Charlie Crist. Though Rubio was trailing in the polls, one leading conservative activist thought he had real potential and vowed to help him.

“When Marco Rubio ran for the Senate in Florida, I think I was the first one to endorse him,” said Phyllis Schlafly. “I made a trip down to Florida in 2009 just for the purpose of helping him.”

But Schlafly, a legendary conservative activist, author and WND columnist, now says she is bitterly disappointed by Rubio’s record.

“Once he got elected, he betrayed us all,” she told WND. “He said he was against amnesty and against the establishment. And once he got in, right away, he became an agent of the establishment. And now, of course, he’s big for amnesty and letting all the illegal immigrants in. He betrayed us a number of times on that issue.”

Schlafly said she was startled at the magnitude of Rubio’s “betrayal” on amnesty.

“It was so public,” she said.

“He’s a lackey for the establishment now,” she said. “There’s no question they’re picking up as Plan B – or maybe Plan C in this election cycle, or whatever we’re on now – but he certainly is an establishment agent.”

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Goldman Sachs Is a Top Donor to Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio

Posted on January 23, 2016 | Comments Off on Goldman Sachs Is a Top Donor to Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, and Marco Rubio

The Wall Street mega-bank Goldman Sachs is a top donor to the 2016 presidential campaigns of establishment candidates Hillary Clinton, Sen. Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush.

Goldman Sachs employees have donated a total of $483,500 to Jeb Bush’s campaign and a pro-Bush super PAC, and they also gave $79,600 to Rubio’s campaign and super PAC, according to an analysis of campaign finance records. That makes Goldman Sachs staffers the top Bush and Rubio donors during this election cycle.

Hillary Clinton is also getting in on the action, with $169,850 in her campaign and PAC donations coming from the bank. Sen. Ted Cruz, meanwhile, has mopped up $43,575 from Goldman Sachs this cycle.

Clinton’s relationship with Goldman Sachs is becoming a wedge issue in her bitter fight against insurgent socialist rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, who now leads her in New Hampshire by a full 27 points.

Sanders ripped into Clinton at Sunday night’s Democratic debate, painting her as a paid-for subsidiary of Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street banks.

“I have doubts when people receive huge amounts of money from Wall Street,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said of his rival Clinton.

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Posted in Democrats/Progressives, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Radicals, Republicans/Neo-Cons, The Clintons

Ann Coulter: Trey Gowdy’s Endorsement of Marco Rubio Will Be No More Effective Than His Benghazi Hearings

Posted on January 1, 2016 | Comments Off on Ann Coulter: Trey Gowdy’s Endorsement of Marco Rubio Will Be No More Effective Than His Benghazi Hearings

Conservative columnist and best-selling author Ann Coulter provided Breitbart News with her exclusive reaction to Rep. Trey Gowdy’s endorsement of donor-class favorite and presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio.

Coulter told Breitbart, “I expect this endorsement will be as game-changing as Gowdy’s Benghazi investigation. (Big fat flop.)”

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump similarly keyed in on Gowdy’s Benghazi performance, tweeting:

Coulter and Trump’s criticism of the Benghazi hearings followed an earlier indictment of the hearings by establishment conservative Charles Krauthammer. Following the Benghazi hearing, Krauthammer wrote:

As a PR disaster for the GOP, nothing compares to Benghazi, in which the select committee, armed with truly damning evidence against Hillary Clinton, handed her instead a major victory. … The outcome of the hearing is the current conventional wisdom that the committee presented nothing new and never laid a glove on her. How could the Republicans have blown it so badly?

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Populism on the Rise in GOP Race

Posted on November 16, 2015 | Comments Off on Populism on the Rise in GOP Race

The Wall Street Journal’s Nick Timiraos drops a truth bomb on the 2016 Republican primary race: conservatives might not like big business in bed with big government.

The latest presidential debate vividly captured how the 2008 financial crisis has reshaped the Republican Party by unleashing a potent populist strain that could further scramble an already unpredictable primary contest.

Candidates vying for the 2016 GOP nomination have grown distinctly more leery of big banks, corporations and international trade deals, and outright hostile toward the Federal Reserve.

Some of these impulses gave rise to the tea-party movement in 2009 and flared in the 2012 GOP primary contest, but they faded with the nomination of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a private-equity executive.

The debate in Milwaukee didn’t appear to fundamentally alter the state of the race. But with candidates heading off to Iowa and New Hampshire on Wednesday, it showed how their jockeying to carry the populist banner could intensify in the run-up to those states’ early nominating contests next February.

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Posted in Conservatism, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz

Don’t Ask Him That! It Would Be Too Obvious by Ann Coulter

Posted on November 13, 2015 | Comments Off on Don’t Ask Him That! It Would Be Too Obvious by Ann Coulter

We have now had the fourth straight Republican debate in which Rubio was not asked one question about his single legislative accomplishment: Passing amnesty in the U.S. Senate.

Boy, that Carly Fiorina boom really took off!

At the debate Tuesday night, Fiorina slammed Donald Trump for saying he had met Russian President Vladimir Putin in the “60 Minutes” greenroom, noting that she’d met Putin at “a meeting” not a “greenroom.”

The audience, which seemed a little suspicious to me from the beginning, responded with — I’m quoting the transcript — “(LAUGHTER) (APPLAUSE) (CHEERING).”

A quick Google search revealed that Fiorina had recently told Jimmy Fallon that she met Putin — IN A GREENROOM. As a big tech executive, you’d think she’d remember Google.

After boasting that American Express just boosted his credit limit, Rubio gave a series of canned speeches in response to every question, including everyone’s favorite about “the future”:

“This election is about the future, about what kind of country this nation is gonna be in the 21st century. This next election is actually a generational choice. A choice about what kind of nation we will be in the 21st century … [blah, blah, blah — seriously, he actually said the words, ‘blah, blah blah’] And so here’s the truth: This election is about the future, and the Democratic Party, and the political left has no ideas about the future.”

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Video: Full 4th GOP Republican Presidential Debate – 10-11-2015

Posted on November 11, 2015 | Comments Off on Video: Full 4th GOP Republican Presidential Debate – 10-11-2015

There was no runaway winner of the fourth Republican presidential debate on Tuesday night, according to commentators, journalists and pundits who watched. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas drew some scolding for an “oops” moment when he failed to name five agencies he wanted to eliminate, and Donald J. Trump may be remembered for shushing Carly Fiorina. But unlike after earlier debates this cycle, no consensus emerged about the outcome.

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Posted in Ben Carson, Donald Trump, Elections, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz

Rand Paul: Marco Rubio Worked With Democratic ‘Hillary Clinton Wing’ and Chuck Schumer To Push Amnesty

Posted on November 10, 2015 | Comments Off on Rand Paul: Marco Rubio Worked With Democratic ‘Hillary Clinton Wing’ and Chuck Schumer To Push Amnesty

Paul has been pushing this line of criticism against both Clinton and Rubio aggressively, appearing on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday to argue that Clinton and Rubio are basically “the same person.”

Sen. Rand Paul offered a brutal critique of his fellow presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio, for Rubio’s support of amnesty for illegal aliens.

In 2013, “Rubio teamed up with the Hillary Clinton wing [of the Democratic Party] on immigration, teamed up with Chuck Schumer on immigration,” Paul told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview here on Friday night over pizza and beer at Millstone Pizza and Taphouse.

“I think it’s been a little bit forgotten in some of the debate, but yeah—he was a part of the ‘Gang of Eight.’ At some point in time, he probably needs to be made to own it. He does own it. It is his baby, but he seems to have disowned his baby right now.”

Rubio has not been asked in any of the presidential debates about the only legislative accomplishment he’s had as a U.S. Senator — passing the ‘Gang of Eight’ amnesty bill through the U.S. Senate.

Paul thinks Rubio should be asked about that accomplishment during the upcoming debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Huckabee Slams GOP Elite For Using Foreign Workers to Cut Americans’ Wages

Posted on November 6, 2015 | Comments Off on Huckabee Slams GOP Elite For Using Foreign Workers to Cut Americans’ Wages

GOP 2016 candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee today denounced his own party elite as a destructive, wage-slashing, profit-grasping creature of wealthy donors.

“We’re really absolutely screwing lots of Americans and trying to bring in cheap labor at the expense of our long-term future economy,” Huckabee told Steve Bannon, host of the Breitbart News Daily show, on channel 125 of SiriusXM.

That policy is exemplified by the GOP leaders’ support for the H-1B program, he said. “It was fascinating listening to your previous guests,” he said, citing the prior segment in which two American professionals described how they were replaced by foreign professionals carrying H-1B guest-worker visas.

“What they telling us is that Republicans are going to have to step up and start being honest,” he said. “We’re really absolutely screwing lots of Americans… It makes no sense and I don’t understand why on God’s Earth,” he said.

Huckabee hit at other GOP 2016 candidates who have supported companies’ use of H-1B guest-workers, including Sen. Marco Rubio. “You’ve got Republican candidates for president who seem to be more interested in prospering foreign workers than they do the Americans… it just doesn’t make any sense at all except that they’re placating the donor class,” he said. “What a shame,” said Huckabee, who did not name the targets of his criticism.

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Ann Coulter: Explains Rubio’s Stance on Immigration

Posted on November 2, 2015 | Comments Off on Ann Coulter: Explains Rubio’s Stance on Immigration

Can YOU say….Adios America? I’m counting on Ted Cruz and Donald Trump to take him out…and I’m sure, Ann Coulter will be down at the border helping them.

Slowly the pundits are jumping the Jeb Bush Titanic ship of fools….including the man who was in charge of his campaign. (By the way, has anybody else noticed that Dana Perino sort of disappeared?) So, the ‘money’ people are eyeing Rubio, who is young, handsome, and determined to beat Lindsay Graham in the “I’ll be the greatest Commander-In Chief” contest.

There’s something pretty scary about a man raised in a bar fighting the Chinese, Russia, and ISIS. I just can’t picture Lindsey NOT crying if we are attacked. Putin will take off his shirt, and Lindsey, would probably go have a beer. Hillary would bring another push button. Rubio, what would Rubio do? Give a long speech and probably give himself a year to consider his options.

Rubio was one of the “Gang of Eight” that was going to help out Obama in his quest for more democratic voters, which Ted Cruz just reminded Fox commentator Bret Baier— he stopped dead in its track. Don’t tell TED he never accomplishes anything.

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Donald Trump Rights Ship on Immigration: Demands Disney Rehire Workers Replaced by Cheap Foreign Labor, Calls Rubio ‘Silicon Valley’s Puppet’

Posted on October 31, 2015 | Comments Off on Donald Trump Rights Ship on Immigration: Demands Disney Rehire Workers Replaced by Cheap Foreign Labor, Calls Rubio ‘Silicon Valley’s Puppet’

Last night during the CNBC primary debate, Donald Trump, who to this point in the campaign had been the Republican candidate most closely aligned with the conservative grassroots on immigration policy, seemed to have altered his message in several significant ways.

Breitbart News documented some of these changes here.

Trump, who leads many national 2016 polls, granted Breitbart News an interview on the subject. Full questions and responses below:

BNN: The media has been filled with stories about companies flying in low-wage H-1B workers to replace American workers in tech jobs. Adding insult to injury, these American workers have been forced to train their replacements. If you were President, would you put a stop to this practice?

DT: Day one. This is why I got into this race. Because the everyday working person in this country is getting screwed. Lobbyists write the rules to benefit the rich and powerful. They buy off Senators like Sen. Marco Rubio to help them get rich at the expense of working Americans by using H-1B visas–so called “high tech” visas–to replace American workers in all sorts of solid middle class jobs. If I am President, I will not issue any H-1B visas to companies that replace American workers and my Department of Justice will pursue action against them.

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