Yesterday I posted a commentary in this space on what I believe was liberal hypocrisy in the wake of last Thursday’s Washington Post article on conservative U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. But today, in fairness, I think former Massachusetts Governor and leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should be called to question for …
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Birtherism Redux: The Right and the Left Overreach On Marco Rubio’s Origins
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio got it from both sides this past week. First it was the birthers, who it turns out are equal opportunity delusionals. The nativist activists, who’ve misspent every waking hour since November 2008 …
Romney, Perry and Rubio: Immigration and the GOP in 2012
Today’s Washington Post notes the fixation of hard-core Republican activists with illegal immigration, a phenomenon that became clear to me this spring when I saw a Republican voter suggest to Tim Pawlenty that the government threaten to shoot immigrants crossing the southern border. That sort of anger could cause headaches for Rick …
In West Coast Debut, Marco Rubio Shows He’s Got What GOP Wants Most
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is having more coming-out events these days than a quinceañera debutante. On Tuesday night, the 40-year-old Florida Republican went to California to deliver a major speech on government at the …
A Notable Exception to the Proliferation of GOP Noninterventionists
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Mark Benjamin notes that it’s not just Jon Huntsman who is fatigued with Afghanistan and wary of Libya:
Marco Rubio Walks A Lonely Road (With McCain)
With the Republican Party swinging back towards its isolationist roots, a man in Florida takes the stage, insisting that the U.S. must be “the watchman on the wall of world freedom.” But as Tim Padgett writes over at Global Spin, Rubio’s vision of idealistic intervention may have local roots.
Dems’ Efforts to Get Meek to Drop Out: Too Little, Too Late?
A guest post from TIME’s Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett
So how desperate are the Democrats to keep control of the U.S. Senate? The answer is fairly clear in a story that appeared Thursday evening on Politico.com that quotes spokesmen for former President Bill Clinton claiming he tried to convince Democratic Florida Congressman …
Marco Rubio Is Not Running For President
Except, there is this ad . . .
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. . . and he sure could make the 2012 electoral map mighty interesting.
Wave? Not yet in KY, CA & FL
Sure, all those pundits on cable and inside the Beltway may be predicting a wave year where Dems lose the House and maybe even the Senate. But the tsunami hasn’t yet been reflected in three new CNN/TIME/Opinion research polls of registered voters in Kentucky, California and Florida out today. In fact, most races were tied or just within …
Perhaps The Best Senate Race In America: Following The Fun In The Florida Sun
Ah, Florida: Scarface, Disney, Golden Girls, Seinfeld’s parents, Tiger, Elian, Crockett, Tubbs, sugar, swamps, spring training, LMFAO, oranges, chads, (Jimmy) Buffett, Marino, Lebron and so much more, including one of the most exciting Senate races in the country this cycle, a three-way match up between conservative wonder boy Marco …
A Tallahassee Trap?
Our Miami-based colleague Tim Padgett files this report on a very savvy Charlie Crist:
At first glance, Tuesday looked like a bad day for Florida Governor Charlie Crist. He’d called the Florida legislature back to Tallahassee to consider placing an initiative on the November ballot asking voters whether offshore oil drilling
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Marco Rubio Doesn’t – or Didn’t – Get It
There are a few very simple truths about how health insurance works, which some commentators and politicians can’t seem to grasp. The result is a constant drumbeat of disingenuous statements that misrepresent how health reform will work and why the Affordable Care Act was written as it is.
The latest failure to grasp comes from …
Beyond Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist
Our colleague Michael Grunwald has a story out today on the likely Democratic candidate in the race for Florida’s Senate seat. Yes, a Democrat is running, despite that much of the political oxygen is being sucked up by Republican candidate Marco Rubio and newly minted independent Charlie Crist. That Democrat is Kendrick Meek and although …