Marco Rubio Is Not Running For President

he is just Moron
false
liar
rude
Moron.
Decent people hate him here.
Just hate him with full disrespect

I don’t hate him, but:
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1) His stances are inflexible
2) He has serious ethics problems (i.e. using a state Republican Party credit card to take his family to Disney World)
3) He offers no clear solutions
4) Even if he gets in he’ll likely be in the minority party
5) Nice try Repubs, but he ain’t no Obama
6) He panders to the Tea Party (see #1)
7) Smiling and glad-handling won’t help when he has to actually state where he’s going to cut taxes
8) Tax cuts for the rich forever! (see #1)
9) Do I see Jed Blush’s hand up his rump?

…in a puppeteering sort of way

Yeh yeh I know what these polls down here say, but explain to my why he’s Teflon(R) and the other two are looked at as a pariah or feckless, respectively.

Gonna have to get a whole lot less right to get indies for a presidential run. Much different from a senate run,

speculative journalism.

Michael, I’m running for President. I know you may not know who I am but it isn’t to early to start speculating about my candidacy. My income was a little short this year, so I plan to raise some money by running for office. I know the traditional media will care little for my actual stance on issues, so I am thinking of ways to be provocative. Give me some assistance.

The republicans can’t run somebody with even less experience than Obama, it’ll make all their bellyaching about Obama’s “lack of experience” null and void.
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What am I saying? Of course they can. They would too. Because they don’t really care about anything except winning. Sorry, repubs, but Rubio is not Obama. He’ll never be Obama. Nobody in the republican party right now has what it takes to beat Obama.

He’s paying for a two minute ad?
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Wow that must be expensive!
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He is paying to run this ad, right?

I think Scherer just passed Rubio a note reading:

“I like you.
Do you like me?
Please check one:
[ ] Yes
[ ] No”

Thank god. I thought he was running for Senate in Florida. Here I was in DC thinking I had to vote for the president. Good think I just reacted to the title and didn’t read.
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And this is why we are certifiably lazy.

I’d like to recognize the concept of hating with full disrespect.

He is full of BS and why aren’t you writing about that?
Is he going to protect us by cutting Education, Medicare SS, by denying Global warming, by thinking that that coal and oil will sustain us, that global warming will vanish. That tax cuts are going develop income that the government needs?
What the hell are his solutions?
What the hell is so interesting about him?
What the hell are you thinking?
What the hell are you?
Who the hell are you?
Why the hell do write?
What the hell do you care about?
Blithely write your comments; you are what is wrong with Journalism.

American Exceptionalism. If you don’t vote for me for President Senator, the U.S. will become a poor, communist dictatorship. This could be the warmest, fuzziest ad in the history of scare tactics. Way to go, Marco!

The Constant Weader at http://www.RealityChex.com

Humor will get you everywhere!
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I’ve been looking for a place to post this, but this is as good as any.
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I’m wondering if Clarence Thomas wrote the majority decision. Read this:
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On Monday, Silver issued the temporary stay after concluding that the state did not provide Landrigan’s side enough information to make its case sufficiently about the safety and legality of substances that would have been used to kill him.

But the U.S. Supreme Court ruling vacated the lower court order, saying “there is no evidence in the record to suggest that the drug obtained from a foreign source is unsafe.”
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/10/27/arizona.execution/index.html
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Whistling aimlessly, tapping shoe…

Micheal’s peers, I think, apply that concept to the POTUS routinely.

I am pretty sure that they’re not going to argue he “is” inexperienced this time. Given that they ran the most experienced person on the planet last time and Obama will now be a guy who was, you know, the President for four years… It’s hard to argue he doesn’t have the requisite experience for the job.
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In fact he and Jimmy Carter are the only two people on the planet eligible to run in 2012 that have experience in the job
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Now they may try and argue he made inexperienced mistakes out of the gate, and that line disappears from their vocabulary if someone like Rubio is the opponent, but I am pretty sure the 2012 debates will be:
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Obama: “Generic Opening Statement!”
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Any Repub: “HEALTH CARE!!!!”

…this is a blog. I am pretty sure him sharing a political video with a snarky headline and one line of commentary won’t be on the Pulitzer short list, nor did he intend it to be.
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If your standards demand you only read thoughtful long form journalism, I suggest you stop reading the scratch pad blog of TIME reporters and start only reading their actual stuff.

I see that you are a Rubio fan.
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No he just intended to broadcast a made for the News, (entertainment) section of the Political page, ad. Just being a tool for a guy who couldn’t muster 50% of the vote.
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I think we have seen much too much of this sort of thing, hollow empty Journalism, you know the kind where the guy they report on writes the narrative.

Obviously Milas (is that Russian name) , like our current community organizer in chief, you are NOT an American. And wherever here is, it ISN’T Florida. Because in Florida we will support Marco Rubio as long he he continues to espouse true American values and practice what he preaches. President? Not out of the question at this point. Currently far more qualified and more pro American than our current embarrassment.

Again… BLOG!
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The ad sounds a hell of a lot like a guy running for national office, not statewide one.
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Thus the post.
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Honestly, I have no use for guys like Rubio who deny climate change and spend way too much time inserting the Bible into everyone’s lives, but the question of whether or not he’ll run for President is a valid one.
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This blog is never, or rarely, about journalism. It’s a direct conduit from reporters to readers. This video was worth sharing. Now, what I’d like to see, is a real article that goes deeper and tries to pin down his actual intentions.
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However, when that happens, I firmly expect it to be in the magazine, not posted on this blog.
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Just because these people are Time reporters does not mean every thing they say has to be a long form piece of journalism.

And for the record, liberals like you are as bad as posters like Rusty.
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Just because someone disagrees with you, you immediately assume they’re your enemy. You assumed I’m some right wing extremist because I think that short snarky posts on a blog are OK.
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Politics will continue to be a turd flinging war until people on both sides of the debate learn to have one.

1) Inflexible conservative = good, wishy washy kiss up play the DC game = bad
2) One incident MISrepresented and overblown by the media.
3) He offers and continues to offer VERY CLEAR solutions.
http://www.marcorubio.com/marco-101/
4) What difference does that make? Is that a reason not to vote for him or a reason to vote for him?
5) Thank God he “ain’t no Obama”!
6) Again thank God he listens to TEA party followers. They will save America.
7) Rubio and other Republicans are going to cut SPENDING first and retain the Bush tax cuts.
8) The “tax cuts for the rich ” lie was used when the Bush tax cuts went into effect. Interesting that now Democrats are saying “keep the middle class tax cuts”. I didn’t think they were any. LOL!! Anyway it’s th erich that hire people not the poor or middle class.
9) Another juvenile immature comment typical of left wing bloggers.

we are well on our way to the poor communist dictatorship that you mention. Rubio alone will not save us.

Then you miss the point. I am willing to bet that this blog, not necessarily the responses, reaches a wider audience then the magazine.

“And for the record, liberals like you are as bad as posters like Rusty.”
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But, but…. this is just a blog!

One, I am absolutely certain it doesn’t. Especially when you remember that the blog is part of a website on which 99% of the magazine is reposted.
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Traditional media don’t use blogs like new media outlets do. I’ve always taken this blog at its intent to have more in common with Twitter than the magazine.
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It’s a nice place to get to know the minds of the reporters you read. You get behind the scenes, you see what they’re working on, and what they’re thinking about. Then they link you when they do a proper piece of journalism.
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Should it be that way? Maybe, maybe not, but random posts about the woeful state of journalism every time someone makes a trivial post to this blog is misplaced. It’s not the intent of the blog. We’ve now spent more time on this forum thread debating this point than I am sure the TIME reporter did embedding that video.

Here read it!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704388504575419202376842786.html
Time’s circulation is 1.3 million and dropping fast. Tell me this Web site is getting less hits.

Pay wall! Just google Time magazine circulation to get the report

I imagine they get way more uniques than that a month, but I am saying that most probably read the articles (which are from the magazine) not the blogs.

Perhaps or is it just sitting on the coffee table, or in the doctors office? What articles are they reading the political ones or the movie, celebrity ones? Sports?
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When they come to the blog they are looking for and reading the political ones.
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It has an impact, larger than you give credence too.

Major news sources for political information: TV (78%), newspapers (38%), radio (16%), Internet (15%), magazines (4%)
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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/itfacts/major-news-sources-for-political-information-tv-78-newspapers-38-radio-16-internet-15-magazines-4/6385

I am not saying it has no impact.
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But to me saying it should be long form journalism because people read it is like saying Monday Night Football should be replaced by a civics lesson.
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They’re not the same thing.
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If people visit Swampland as their sole source for political news, that says more about their attention spans than TIME’s failings.

lepidusxvi , this blog is a bit like “Fox and friends” on Fox News.
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it all starts innocently enough. But by mid-morning, it sets the narrative for the rest of the day !!
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So when the Swamp “journalists” write their dead tree articles, the stinking garbage from the blog is at the core of a toffee covered hit piece passed off as “news” and “analysis”.

PS: Not all swamp journalists are like this. IMHO, exceptions are JK, KP and MT.