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Did Marco Rubio Peak Too Soon?

Conservatives fought to get Marco Rubio the Republican nomination for Florida Senate. Now that he has it, mainly because his challenger Charlie Crist decided to run as a non-affiliated candidate once he realized he wasn’t going to win the primary, people are wondering if Rubio peaked too early.

While Crist has dealt with the Gulf oil spill in between changing his mind on every position he held a few months ago, Rubio’s been quiet. It’s natural to take a step back when you no longer have a challenger…save money, save resources, get ready for the big push in September. But without Charlie Crist to kick around in a primary, there’s some concern his campaign has gotten, for lack of more eloquent verbiage, blah.

Rubio’s camp ain’t hearing none of it…

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Rubio: Greece is the Word that You’ve Heard

While Charlie Crist is opposing drilling for oil off the coast of Florida before being a supporter of off shore drilling off the coast of Florida (in his defense, domestic drilling isn’t as popular as it used to be and he’s trying to appeal to Democrats now instead of Republicans), Marco Rubio took to the pages of National Review to talk aboot the financial crisis in Greece.

This is what I think is going to be a winning issue for conservatives in the fall. It’s one thing to criticize the Obama domestic agenda, but this situation in Greece helps illustrate why. This is what happenes when you over spend and over borrow, and contrary to what the left wants you to believe, you can’t just take money away from rich people or anyone who has more than you do to pay for it all. Greece is a warning sign for the rest of us.

In three simple paragraphs, Marco Rubio lays out perfectly why to vote conservative in the fall…
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I Don’t Need Your GOP Civil War

There isn’t a Republican primary battle that better personifies the divide in the Republican Party than the Florida Senate race between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist. No, it’s not a battle between the “conservatives” vs. the “moderates” or the – perish the thought – “liberals.” It’s between Republicans who stand for something versus those who don’t. That’s what the fight between Rubio (who I’m an admitted supporter of) vs. Crist (who I think is an un-ideological, opportunistic douche) is really about.

It’s between Rubio the reformer vs. Crist the guy who supported Rudy Giuliani in 2008, before he supported Mitt Romney, before he supported John McCain, before he supported Obama’s stimulus, before he opposed Obama’s stimulus, before he vetoed a education reform bill that a) should be at the center of any right leaning reformist agenda, and b) he originally supported.

And who by most accounts may or may not be switch to become and Independent this week. ::shrugs::

As for the actual “civil war,” there a a GREAT piece in the Wall Street Journal a few days ago…

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Charlie Crist on ObamaCare: “What’s ObamaCare?”

I’m admittedly, even though I can’t vote in Florida, totally in the tank for Marco Rubio. And since it’s my blog, I don’t have to be fair and balanced if I don’t want to. But last week perfectly illustrated why I think Rubio is our future and Charlie Crist doesn’t believe in anything but winning.

The Crist campaign has recently started ratching up it’s criticism of Marco Rubio, most recently over leaked information from the Florida GOP (which is guy Jim Greer was the head of, until I believe he either resigned our was ousted) that Marco Rubio, as Speaker of the House, used GOP money on personal expenses…
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Marco Rubio is a Big, Fat RiNO

Of course he isn’t, don’t be ridiculous. This is what we in the blogging hustle call a “bait and switch,” where we give you a crazy headline to grab your attention. We’re still going to talk aboot Rubio and RiNO’s, but he’s not the RiNO himself as much as he is the hunter.

The reason I took interest in the Florida race is because I thought it was a great example of the debate we need to have as a party nationwide. I’m not much of a “RiNO Hunter” myself. The two from the Maine, they’re the best we’re going to get up there. But in the case of Florida we had one candidate who checks off ALL the boxes (Rubio) against on who is nothing more than a younger, tanner Arlen Specter (current FL Gov. Charlie Crist).

The Republican Party NEEDS Marco Rubio, and for further examples why, I give you the far left liberal rag “Human Events….”

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Charlie Crist Hearts Acorn, Jeb Speaks Out

Now that two teenagers with a video camera exposed ACORN for helping pimps and prostitutes evade taxes, the Democrats who supported them are running for cover. Granted, some of us are wondering where everyone was while ACORN was under investigation for voter fraud in twelve states while still receiving federal money AND a role in collecting the census data, but what the hey? And expose is and expose.

Regardless, most Democrat pollsters are in agreement that they should run as far away from the organization as possible, for the sake of their political career. But what if it was a Republican? What if, for sake of argument, a Republican Governor dismissed concerns aboot ACORN when his legislature called on him to do something? What if the Governor is currently running for Senate, with a young conservative upstart challenging him for the nomination?

Oh, Gov. Charlie Crist

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