If Rubio Can Help the GOP it's Not Thru the Gender Gap

     He was one of 22 male GOP Senators to vote againt the Violence Aganst Women Act (VAWA).

      http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2013/02/marco-rubio-among-22-male-repubican.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DiaryOfARepublicanHater+%28Diary+of+a+Republican+Hater%29

      There are various excuses that GOP Congressmen come up with for not supporting VAWA. One, is that VAWA shouldn't apply to gays, etc. So you're telling me that the GOP candiate in 2016 will be opposed to VAWA? Does the GOP think they can get female votes this way?

       If Rubio can come up with an excuse for not supporting VAWA, whats his excuse for this?

       "In an interview on Thursday with conservative magazine Newsmax, Tea Party standard-bearer and so-called ‘savior’ of the Republican party Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) revealed that he will become a cosponsor of the “Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act.” The bill is a concerted effort to prevent girls in dangerous family situations from going across state lines to receive abortions.
Familiarly known as “the Grandmother Incarceration Act,” CIANA bills have come up in Congress several times in recent years. Nearly every iteration of the legislation would prevent even a victim of rape or incest from getting a ride to an abortion clinic beyond state lines from her grandmother or older sibling, if she is under the age of 18. Instead, the girl would be forced to inform her parents or legal guardian, and be required to have them present."

      "While the bill has not yet been introduced, previous versions of the text would even apply the requirements to girls who require a medically necessary, potentially lifesaving abortion.
The fact that Rubio will serve as a co-sponsor on the legislation reveals a lot about the supposed new face of the Republican party. The policy, like many of Rubio’s policy choices, is actually an old trick from the Grand Old Party, not some new approach to Republican ideals. And it falls in line with Rubio’s party’s, and the Senator’s own, recent anti-woman efforts."

     http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/15/1602051/rubio-abortion-notification-women/

      Everything about Rubio points to the fact that he's merely old wine in new bottles. Indeed, while he's supposed to be the party's savior, why is this exactly? What makes him different from the same old GOP ideologue that was so unsuccessful in 2012? Basicaly, he is personally Hispanic. That's the only thing I cna think of. The GOP think's it will help with the Hispanic vote. They're going to be disappointed. Or did you notice all that African-American support that Herman Cain got.

      Newt Gingrich was again saying today that Romney's "self-deportation" moment was "fatal."

      http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/newt-self-deportation-comment-fatal-to-romney

      Yet Rubio has a shot in 2016 with this kind of record he is building with women? I have a hard time imagining an elected President who's on record as opposed to something called "the violence against women act."