YOU HAVE TO ASK YOURSELF, WHAT’S MARCO RUBIO SO AFRAID OF???

So what is it, do you think, that Chuckie Schumer’s buddy, presidential candidate Marco Rubio, might be so afraid of?  And, really, the only reason I ask is because Rubio canceled what as to be an appearance at the recent Conservative Review Conference in South Carolina, five minutes before he was supposed to appear.  Was it because Louie Gohmert had taken him to task, and pretty harshly, on his amnesty positions right before he was supposed to go on stage.

Rubio’s campaign was is said to have offered the following explanation: “FYI – Because of a delay in today’s schedule, Marco is unable to make the event below tonight. Senator Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Congressman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) attended to represent the campaign. Tomorrow’s schedule remains unchanged,” the Rubio campaign said in a statement. Now personally speaking, that’s sounds rather lame and something that we might expect to hear from Hitlery.

And it was Rick Tyler, a communications adviser to Rubio’s fellow candidate Ted Cruz, who said, “This is a final admission that Marco Rubio isn’t even going to try compete for the votes of conservatives in South Carolina or anywhere else. And who can blame him? Rubio isn’t a conservative.”  Tyler went on to say, “Instead Rubio and his campaign would rather hide behind their deceptive campaign tactics and liberal record on amnesty for illegals and voting to nominate John Kerry.”  I would tend to agree.

According to those who were there on the ground at the conference, had Rubio chosen to appear at this particular venue, he likely would not have been all that well-received.  Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, and Donald Trump supporters were there in droves, but there was little discernible enthusiasm for Rubio.  Cruz reportedly received a thunderous ovation when he took the stage.  So perhaps sensing a level of political hostility, Rubio likely took what he saw as being the easy way out!

However there seemed to be more than enough time ‘before’ the conference for Rubio, Tim Scott, and pro-Rubio South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to take a photo-friendly trip to the Beacon Drive-In in Spartanburg, S.C..  According to a Conservative Review spokeswoman, the organization that was sponsoring the event, Rubio was scheduled to speak at 8 p.m. and sent Bobby Jindal, Tim Scott and Trey Gowdy to the event as well as several campaign staffers.

Moments before he was set to take the stage, the spokeswoman said, Rubio’s team informed the Conservative Review team that he would be late. The team offered to adjust the schedule, and do whatever it took to accommodate Rubio so he could speak with the conservatives gathered there. But, like I said, Rubio ultimately saw retreat as being the better part of valor and eventually ended up being a no show.  Which made it clear that he’s not someone able to defend his position.

Rubio’s campaign attempted to argue that it sent Gowdy, Scott and Jindal as Rubio surrogates to the event, but the rule from Conservative Review, which was set months ago, was that campaigns couldn’t send surrogates unless the candidate himself came.  The campaign of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, for instance, also asked to send a surrogate instead of him since he’s doing the CNN Town Hall this evening and Conservative Review refused that request as well.

Rep. Louie Gohmert, who criticized Rubio directly before the candidate was slated to speak, said that he made it very clear to those in the conference crowd that Rubio had chosen to betray his Tea Party roots during the “Gang of Eight” immigration debacle. Gohmert said, “I think originally I was going to speak between Marco Rubio and Carson. I said I’m supposed to go after Marco, and the guy said Marco needed to move until later so now he’s going on before Carson.”

Gohmert also went on to say, “I didn’t mention his name, I didn’t mention any of his supporters. I just pointed out that we were really excited because we had been fighting Boehner’s amnesty and McCain-Schumer’s amnesty and we were so excited when we had a great tea party senator elected from Florida and then he joined the Gang of 8 bill.”  Which is exactly how I felt.  When I saw Rubio standing there next to Schumer, all smiles, I was left feeling more than just a little betrayed.

Gohmert said, “I met with Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and other House conservatives at least once a week, sometimes in Ted Cruz’s office, sometimes on the House side, and we were strategizing about how to slow the bill down. I think the great work that Ted Cruz and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) did in slowing down the bill really paid off, and Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) got elected thankfully and that’s when it finally died. I didn’t get into all that detail at the conference but I did point out that there was absolutely nothing that Ted Cruz ever did but help the cause of slowing the bill down.”

Gohmert didn’t choose to speculate as to why it was Rubio that might have canceled on his speech right after his remarks referring to Rubio.  He simply said, “Well, see I don’t know, I certainly don’t want to speculate, the old judge in me says you don’t want to assume facts not in evidence.”  He also noted the fact that Steve King had missed the event because his wife was taken to the hospital, and perhaps Rubio had a similar problem. Thankfully, he said, King’s wife is doing fine.

To be honest, I’ve been disappointed with Rubio, even after having voted for him and donating to his campaign back when he was running for the Senate.  I couldn’t believe it when I heard how he had teamed up with that sleazy hack Schumer.  That act alone was enough to tell me that I had been badly fooled by this guy.  The only saving grace, I suppose, is that it wasn’t Charlie Crist that Florida sent to the Senate.  But I have to wonder, if things would have turned out any differently had we done that.

FOR THOSE WHO MAY CHOOSE TO ENDORSE MARCO RUBIO, A LIST OF HIS ‘ACHIEVEMENTS’…

Since Rick Santorum seemed to have some level of difficulty in being able to name a single ‘achievement’ that would justify, in some weird way, his endorsement of Marco Rubio, I decided to spend some time, like maybe Rick should have, to find out for myself if there was anything that could be called an ‘achievement’ of Mr. Rubio’s that was accomplished during his brief time in the Senate.  Although I am not, personally, a supporter of Rubio I decided to take it upon myself to throw Santorum, and anyone one else who might choose to support the very smooth Mr. Rubio, to prevent him, and others, a rope to keep all from being stymied the next time that question may be posed.  Because while he was unable to name a single ‘achievement’ of the man he thought to be worthy of his endorsement, I managed to find several noteworthy ones.

Listed below are but a few of the ‘achievements’ that, had he bothered to go looking, Rick Santorum could have easily identified as being credited to the recipient of his recent endorsement, the honorable Senator Rubio:

(1) The Rubio-‘Chuckie’ Schumer Gang of Eight ‘Amnesty’ Bill:

The Washington Examiner’s Byron York has described the 2013 Rubio-Schumer bill as Rubio’s “signature accomplishment.” Although Santorum seemed reluctant to mention it, Rubio’s immigration bill is probably the first accomplishment that comes to mind when anyone thinks of Rubio’s very brief career in the U.S. Senate.  Rubio’s immigration bill would have tripled the issuances of green cards, doubled the dispensation of foreign worker visas, and granted citizenship — and, thereby, welfare access and voting privileges — to illegal immigrants.

Reports ranging from the The National Review, to the Tampa Bay Times, to the Washington Post, to the New Yorker have all suggested that the “Gang of Eight” bill would have likely not passed the Senate if not for Rubio’s tireless efforts. Indeed, Rubio was the key salesman of the Barry “Almighty”-backed immigration agenda.  As Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker reported at the time, Rubio served as “the Gang’s official ambassador to the right,” and was able to convince prominent conservatives to promote the open borders legislation.

It was also Mr. Lizza who wrote: “[Democratic Senator Bob] Menendez told me that Rubio’s role was to ‘work over the conservative universe, particularly the conservative opinion-maker universe,’ in order to ‘neutralize them’ and, in some cases, ‘proselytize them.’ Schumer said, ‘He’s the real deal.’”  Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin told Lizza, “[Rubio] has been invaluable… He’s willing to go on the most conservative talk shows, television and radio, Rush Limbaugh and the rest.”

Moreover, Rubio was also able to successfully strike down all conservative amendments to the “Gang of Eight’s” proposal. As Sen. Rand Paul pointed out, “Marco and Schumer basically had a secret deal to block all amendments.” Indeed, Rubio joined Chuck Schumer in voting down an amendment offered by Sen. Thune, which would have required the completion of a double-layer border fence. He also successfully defeated an amendment offered by Sen. Vitter, which would require the implementation of an exit-entry tracking system in order to prevent foreign nationals from illegally overstaying their visas.

(2) Obamatrade:

It was also Rubio who cast the 60th and deciding vote to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement. By giving Barry fast-track powers, Rubio essentially helped to ensure the passage of not only the TPP, but all subsequent trade pacts, which are now liberated from Senate filibuster, amendment process, and constitutional treaty vote.  This represents a significant legislative victory for the young Senator, who previously endorsed TPP and described Barry’s trade deal as the “second pillar” of a President Rubio’s three-pillar foreign policy strategy.

Moreover, Rubio was also successful in promoting foreign currency manipulation by helping to vote down a provision to crack down on the illicit practice that had been proposed by Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman.

(3) Blocking Curbs to Muslim Immigration:

Rubio told Sean Hannity he’d “hate” to block funding for Barry’s refugees, and suggested that curbs on Muslim migration would be unconstitutional. This pro mass-migration offensive helped give House Speaker ‘RINO Paul’ Ryan the space he needed to wave in a vast new group of Muslim migrants.  Rubio further lent aid and comfort to ‘RINO’ Ryan by joining a large group of Senators in voting down a proposal offered by Sen. Rand Paul to curb Muslim migration. Sen. Paul’s amendment would have suspended visa issuances to more than 30 Muslim countries with active Jihadist populations.

Oh, and by the way Rubio has also been one of the most ardent champions for increasing Muslim migration. The U.S. has admitted roughly 1.5 million migrants from Muslim countries since 9/11 on a permanent lifetime basis. Yet Rubio has sought to grow that number vastly. In 2015, Rubio introduced an immigration bill which would have allowed for an unlimited increase in Muslim migration.

(4) Enabling His Corporate Backers to Replace Americans With Foreign Workers:

In 2015, Florida Disney laid off scores of Rubio’s constituents and replaced them with low-wage foreign workers brought in on H-1B visas. However, before terminating their American employees, Disney forced those same constituents of Mr. Rubio’s to train their lesser-skilled foreign replacements.

If Rubio had spent his political capital in 2013 trying to reform the H-1B program, instead of massively expanding it, he could have saved the careers of these Disney workers, instead of enabling their termination by leading the charge for more foreign workers. In 2013, Rubio’s aide even told Ryan Lizza that “There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly because–.”  And it was at this point that another Rubio aide jumped in, asserting, “But the same is true for the high-skilled worker,” to which the first Rubio aide replied, “Yes, and the same is true across every sector, in government, in everything.”

Shortly before the Disney workers got the axe, Rubio introduced legislation in January of 2015 to massively expand the H-1B program. Rubio’s 2015 Immigration Innovation Act would have tripled the number of H-1B visas. Interestingly, the bill was endorsed by Disney’s CEO Bob Iger via his immigration lobbying group, the Partnership for a New American Economy. According to Open Secrets, the Walt Disney Corporation is one of Rubio’s biggest financial backers, having donated more than $2 million.

Unfortunately, Rubio’s success in protecting his corporate backers’ ability to increase their bottom line has gone virtually unreported by our state-controlled media. This perhaps explains why so few are able to list his Senatorial achievements.  For instance, Julia Preston of the ‘New York Times’ has written numerous articles about the Florida Disney’s H-1B scheme. Yet Ms. Preston fails to mention the fact that Rubio introduced legislation to triple the H-1B program, nor does Preston like to mention the fact that Disney is one of Rubio’s financial backers.  And in an effort to prove my point, here are several stories in which Preston writes about Rubio’s corporate backer replacing Rubio’s constituents with H-1Bs, yet makes no mention whatsoever of Rubio nor Rubio’s H-1B legislation:

1. a) Pink Slips At Disney, But First Training Foreign Replacements
2. b) In Turnabout, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs
3. c) Lawsuits Claim Disney Colluded To Replace U.S. Workers With Immigrants
4. d) Disney Has No Comment On The Recent Reversal of Layoffs
5. e) Senator Seeks Inquiry Into Visa Program Used At Disney [The Senator mentioned here in Preston’s story is Florida’s Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson. In contrast to Sen. Rubio — who provided cover to Disney’s cheap-labor practices by pushing to expand H-1Bs — Sen. Nelson joined Sen. Jeff Sessions to propose legislation that would reduce the number of H-1Bs and eliminate visas for low-wage jobs. Preston’s story makes no mention of Sen. Rubio nor his desire to expand H-1Bs.]

(5) Blocking Food Stamp Reform:

In 2011, Rubio voted against a Republican proposal which the Congressional Budget Office projected would save the U.S. government $10 Billion by reining in the abuse of the food stamp program. The measure was backed by almost all Republicans and opposed by virtually all Democrats. The measure, as Sen. Jeff Sessions explained when he proposed it, would have eliminated what is known as the “categorical eligibility” for food stamps, which makes people “automatically eligible” to receive government benefits even if that household has “substantial assets.” Rubio was one of only seven Republicans to oppose the measure, but his no vote helped stall momentum for food stamp reform– which remains elusive.   Rubio’s campaign did not respond to requests for explanation as to why Rubio voted against the 2011 food stamp reform.

(6) Benghazi:

As George Will has pointed out, Rubio gave his “enthusiastic support of the Barry “Almighty”/Hitlery Clinton intervention in Libya.” And it was the Washington Examiner that reported at the time in a piece by Bill Kristol, entitled “Rubio takes the lead to support Obama’s war in Libya:” “Rubio proposes that the Senate authorize the president’s use of force in Libya, and that the authorization state that the aim of the use of force should be the removal of the Qaddafi regime.”  And it was Will who also noted that “Rubio supported this third adventure in regime change in the Muslim world since 9/11, perhaps on the principle that practice makes perfect.”  The destabilization and chaos that resulted from the overthrow of Qaddafi not only provided an operating ground for ISIS, but also provided the conditions that led to the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi.

(7) Worst Attendance Record:

Reports note that Rubio has amassed one of the worst attendance records in the Senate, which is quite an achievement in itself. The Washington Post writes, “Since the beginning of the year, Marco Rubio has cast votes about two-thirds of the time he could have — the worst attendance of any senator seeking a presidential nomination.” The Sun Sentinel editorial board noted, “Rubio has missed more votes than any other senator this year. His seat is regularly empty for floor votes, committee meetings and intelligence briefings. He says he’s MIA from his J-O-B because he finds it frustrating and wants to be president, instead… But two other candidates — Sens. Rand Paul and Sen. Bernie Sanders — have missed only 10 Senate votes during their campaigns for the White House. You, on the other hand, have missed 59, according to a tally by Politico.”

By contrast, Iowa’s Sen. Chuck Grassley set the record for the “longest temporal stretch of perfect attendance in senatorial history,” as Roll Call reported earlier this month. Roll Call notes that the Senator has “not missed a recorded vote in 22 years, six months and six days.

Now since you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find any of his ‘achievements’ being reported upon anywhere in the state-controlled media, perhaps it’s understandable that Mr. Santorum has a difficult time in coming up with any.  And although the state-controlled media seems to be more than a bit hesitant to report it, Rubio has been one of the most ardent and successful champions of the donor-class’s open borders trade and immigration agenda.  While other establishment Republicans have been unsuccessful in promoting the donor-class’s priorities, Rubio has repeatedly demonstrated his rather adept ability to deliver for his donors.  This perhaps explains why Rubio’s campaign has been enthusiastically embraced by some of the most powerful mass migration advocates, like Paul Singer and Larry Ellison.

So, I guess my point here is that if it was easy for me to track down these ‘achievements’ of candidate Rubio, then why was it that Mr. Santorum was unable to come up with even one.  Or is there, perhaps, another reason that he chose not to mention any of these ‘achievements’?  And as if Santorum’s decision wasn’t bad enough, I was very disappointed to hear how it was that former Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has also now decided to throw his support behind Rubio.  Jindal is apparently another who, while he makes a great deal of noise about being a ‘conservative’, is very obviously, not a conservative.  Santorum and Jindal, and Rubio as well, appear to be little more than posers, so would it be fair to ask if we actually have a bona fide conservative anywhere on our list of remaining candidates?