Friday, February 8, 2013

Sen Marco Rubio 'The Republican Savior': At least Time Magazine seems to think so

Time Magazine published a spread on Marco Rubio titled, 'Immigrant Son'. It begins with his family history below:
Oriales García Rubio knows how it feels to want more. When she was a girl in central Cuba in the 1930s, her family of nine lived in a one-room house with a dirt floor. Her dolls were Coke bottles dressed in rags. She dreamed of becoming an actress. Instead she married a security guard, moved with him to the U.S. and found work as a hotel maid. Her husband got a job as a bartender while starting a series of failed businesses—a vegetable stand, a dry cleaner, a grocery. They never had much. But their house had a real floor. Their daughters had real dolls. They sent all four of their children to college to chase their own dreams. 
That’s why on the morning of Dec. 21, she called her youngest son, Marco Antonio Rubio, the 41-year-old Senator from Florida and great Hispanic hope of the Republican Party—or, as she calls him, Tony. She got his voice mail. “Tony, some loving advice from the person who cares for you most in the world,” she said in Spanish. “Don’t mess with the immigrants, my son. Please, don’t mess with them.” She reminded him that undocumented Americans—los pobrecitos, she called them, the poor things—work hard and get treated horribly. “They’re human beings just like us, and they came for the same reasons we came. To work. To improve their lives. So please, don’t mess with them.”
The piece continues HERE. Along with this there was a cover on the magazine declaring Rubio, 'The Republican Savior'. To Rubio's credit, he tweeted the following in response to the cover:
Time responded:
Gee, I'm glad he told them off and set the record straight. Looks like Rubio may not agree with their choice of words...Their argument however, that's another matter.

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14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Time also said that Hitler was Man of the Year, TWICE

Anonymous said...

oops. Time magazine said Stalin was Man of the Year, TWICE

BOSMAN said...

Close enough...hahaha...

Anonymous said...

I was glad to see that Rubio objected to them using "Savior" to describe him. If Obama objected even once to the Messiah language used to describe him, my opinion of him might go up. Infinitesmally, but a little.:-)

AZ

Ohio JOE said...

Of the primary candidates that are talked about by polling companies, 2 are liberal/moderates, 3 are in between Mainstream Conservatism and the Extreme Right 2 are in between Conservatism and Moderatism and Mr. Rubio along with 5 others are mainstream Conservatives.

Personally, I would like to vote for a candidate that is a compromise between the Far Right and Conservatism, but I'll probably end up voting for Mr. Rubio if he needs help to defeat a candidate who unites Moderate-Conservative and Liberal forces.

Mr. Rubio (or another hispanic) might not have defeated Mr. Obama in 2012 as his appeal to Hispanics would be limited in terms of Electoral success, but two White guys could not do the job either so at least he would be a net do no harm candidate.

Anonymous said...

I like Rubio well enough, but I don't think he is really all that qualified to be president. What has he done?

Sure, he is charismatic and gives great speeches. He articulates the conservative message very well.

I am much more inclined to support someone like Ryan or McDonnell.

-Martha

CRUZ COUNTRY said...

If Republican primary voters in 2016 want more RINO justices like Roberts and Kennedy on the Supreme Court, they should support Rubio or Ryan for president.

But if they want true conservatives like Thomas, Alito and Scalia on the Court, they should support a presidential candidate who actually believes in the Constitution and the rule of law.

Rubio and Ryan are career politicians who will do anything and say anything to gain high public office and remain in high public office.

Anonymous said...

I'm tired of the media trying to stuff Rubio and Christie down our throats.

CRUZ COUNTRY said...

I'm tired of career politicians like Rubio and Ryan who decry big government while spending their entire adult lives feeding at the public trough.

CRUZ COUNTRY said...

Fox's ratings are the worst they've been since 2001.

If Rupert Murdoch & Company keep trying to shove Rubio's amnesty bill down our throats, Fox's ratings will plummet even further.

CRUZ COUNTRY said...

Also, I think a lot of Fox viewers - now former Fox viewers - have finally caught on to the fact that Fox has been protecting(lying for) Obama on the eligibility issue, just like it protected(lied for) Bill Clinton during his 1998-99 impeachment.

Obama eligibility litigator Orly Taitz calls Fox "the controlled opposition media" - the fake alternative to "State Run Media" outlets like CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC & MSNBC.

I couldn't agree more. Fox is all bark and no bite, all show and no go.

Anonymous said...

Christie is done. No way will he get the GOP nod. IMO, Rubio is not qualified to be President.... however... neither was/is Obama.

Rubio will get my vote if he is the nominee... however I fear he will not be able to defeat Hillary.

We need a more qualified candidate to do that... and at current we have no one. In fact the guy that lost (Romney) probably still has a better chance than anyone else named.

Anonymous said...

Rubio is not the answer. Nor is just about everyone that is being mentioned here. This is a huge problem for our party. I highly doubt the guy that lost, the one who is head and shoulder above the rest will ever run again.

CRUZ COUNTRY said...

Hillary is a paper tiger.

Before the 2008 primaries, the so-called "experts" said she was unbeatable, that she was a lock to win the nomination, and the general election as well.

The conventional wisdom regarding Hillary was dead wrong in 2008, and it's just as wrong now.

She's not nearly as formidable a candidate as the media would like us to believe.

The GOP can defeat her or anyone else the Democrats choose as their nominee.

But only if the GOP selects the right nominee, the nominee then selects a running mate who unites the party, and together they aggressively attack their opponents, while aggressively defending themselves.