Rubio is the chosen one

[Tom Sawyer]

Ya, a non-white guy who can manage to survive multiple encounters with the police for minor violations. You don't see that often. Odds are that he's a Jedi and the mind trick he used to keep the police from "accidentally" shooting him would also be valuable in overcoming procedural blocks in Congress and getting things done.

Pssstttt... Rubio is from Miami. Here, he IS the "white guy"

Well, what's all the kerfuffle about then? "Cops manage to not shoot a white guy" isn't much of a news story.

 

[RavenSky]

Ya, a non-white guy who can manage to survive multiple encounters with the police for minor violations. You don't see that often. Odds are that he's a Jedi and the mind trick he used to keep the police from "accidentally" shooting him would also be valuable in overcoming procedural blocks in Congress and getting things done.

Pssstttt... Rubio is from Miami. Here, he IS the "white guy"

Personally I can't stand the guy. I don't like his politics, and I think he is dishonest. But to hound the guy for the size of the windows in his house?

It includes an in-ground pool, a handsome brick driveway, meticulously manicured shrubs and oversize windows.

Seriously?

 

[dismal]

If he's a White Hispanic does he have to hire a Regular Hispanic to meticulously manicure those shrubs?

 

[Keith&Co.]

>posts story with passage comparing Clinton to Rubio
>tfw cannot understand why someone mentioned Clinton

I think he was trying to make a joke.
They're comparing Rubio to Hillary, he's pretending to think that the commentary was about Bill Clinton, not Hillary, and acting confused about the comment being brought up.

 

[SimpleDon]

This isn't a big surprise that Rubio is a front runner for the Republican nomination. He has offered the very wealthy the promise of virtually no taxes on unearned income, the income earned not from working but from having money. The kind of investing in paper, money like things, investing that makes the rich richer without improving the real economy that supports most of people in the nation.

He also promises to give the wage earning conservatives what they apparently want, higher taxes for them, higher government debt, lower social security benefits, lower wages, a longer workweek with fewer holidays, an end to overtime pay, fewer people who have healthcare insurance, a political home for their racism and other bigotries, protection for their guns and for the people who commit crimes using them, periodic financial crises from poorly regulated financial markets like we had in 2008, protection for their ignorance especially when science threatens it, a return to the gold standard to bring on the worst situation for capitalism- deflation, wars instead of diplomacy that results in a bad deal, etcetera.

 

[Ford]

I know we're not supposed to talk about her, but since we're talking about her, I've noticed something fascinating in this race.


The right wing is practically apoplectic over the fact that Hillary Clinton and her husband have made millions off their notoriety and/or connections. Beside themselves that Hillary is trying to paint herself as a populist despite having oodles of money. The very fact that her and Bill have made it rich suddenly disqualifies them to make a return trip to the White House.


Yet just 3 years ago the GOP chose as their candidate a guy who made the former President and his wife look like relative paupers. A man who was celebrated for his ability to make money. A guy who came from wealth and amassed even more wealth.


Four years before that, the GOP chose as their candidate a man who married into what I believe economists call a "metric fuckton" of money. Cindy McCain is the heir to a considerable fortune and Senator Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran enjoys that gravy train to the fullest.


And who can forget the President that preceded both of these wealthy White House pretenders? Mittens and Juan McCain are "new money." Dubya was the latest in a line of Yale men going back to before the Civil War. A grandson of a Wall Street investment banker and the son of a former President. Old money.



So now we're supposed to exalt Rubio for his "middle class" status and disdain Hillary for her money? As the kids today might say, WTF?

 

[dismal]

I know we're not supposed to talk about her, but since we're talking about her, I've noticed something fascinating in this race.


The right wing is practically apoplectic over the fact that Hillary Clinton and her husband have made millions off their notoriety and/or connections. Beside themselves that Hillary is trying to paint herself as a populist despite having oodles of money. The very fact that her and Bill have made it rich suddenly disqualifies them to make a return trip to the White House.


Yet just 3 years ago the GOP chose as their candidate a guy who made the former President and his wife look like relative paupers. A man who was celebrated for his ability to make money. A guy who came from wealth and amassed even more wealth.


Four years before that, the GOP chose as their candidate a man who married into what I believe economists call a "metric fuckton" of money. Cindy McCain is the heir to a considerable fortune and Senator Bomb Bomb Bomb Iran enjoys that gravy train to the fullest.


And who can forget the President that preceded both of these wealthy White House pretenders? Mittens and Juan McCain are "new money." Dubya was the latest in a line of Yale men going back to before the Civil War. A grandson of a Wall Street investment banker and the son of a former President. Old money.



So now we're supposed to exalt Rubio for his "middle class" status and disdain Hillary for her money? As the kids today might say, WTF?

Maybe watch the john Stewart clip I linked via huffington post to see what people are talking about here.

 

[arkirk]

I, too, hope Rubio gets *sip* the nomination.

You know, Ksen, I think no party should ever nominate a candidate as stupid and utterly lacking redeeming social qualities as Rubio. The problem with the Republican party is that it exists in its present form at all. I used to think like you...let the opposition nominate a total idiot...happy to see Dubbiya get nominated...and look where that got us...a whole unnecessary war! If the Republican party was a rational organization, it would conclude it didn't have a single candidate to which it would be safe to entrust the office of president. But then...that has been their problem for several generations.