It's becoming clear that he's the choice of the Establishment. This is not a good thing for Latinos as he's now repudiated how work on immigration reform and vows to reverse Obama's executive action for the Dreamers.
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/11/455602129/for-immigrants-in-u-s-illegally-rubio-favors-very-long-path-to-citizenship
It is terrible news for women as he is against even exceptions for rape and incest on abortion. Indeed, he his so extreme on abortion that Jeb Bush's people think this is an area of weakness they can exploit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/bush-allies-threaten-wave-of-harsh-attacks-on-rubio-an-ex-mentee.html
Here is Slate:
"After last night’s debate, it seems increasingly likely that the contest for the Republican nomination is going to come down to Marco Rubio versus Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio versus Donald Trump, or, less likely, Marco Rubio versus Ben Carson. Jeb Bush once again failed to register, Rand Paul’s refreshingly rational views on foreign policy are out of step with those of his hawkish party, John Kasich is running for the nomination of a Republican Party that no longer exists, and failed CEO Carly Fiorina is a joke, despite her humorless blue steel intensity."
"Widely declared the debate’s victor, Rubio is moving into the position that Mitt Romney held four years ago—the establishment pick, not quite trusted by die-hard conservatives, with a series of wacky foils arrayed against him. On most issues, Rubio is a Romney or George W. Bush redux. But on reproductive rights, he’s more like Todd Akin. Rubio has been very clear that he believes that when a woman is impregnated through rape or incest, the state should force her to carry the pregnancy to term. The fact that the mainstream Republican favorite holds this position is a sign of just how far right the GOP has moved."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/11/11/marco_rubio_s_scary_abortion_beliefs_are_now_gop_mainstream.html
http://www.npr.org/2015/11/11/455602129/for-immigrants-in-u-s-illegally-rubio-favors-very-long-path-to-citizenship
It is terrible news for women as he is against even exceptions for rape and incest on abortion. Indeed, he his so extreme on abortion that Jeb Bush's people think this is an area of weakness they can exploit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/10/us/politics/bush-allies-threaten-wave-of-harsh-attacks-on-rubio-an-ex-mentee.html
Here is Slate:
"After last night’s debate, it seems increasingly likely that the contest for the Republican nomination is going to come down to Marco Rubio versus Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio versus Donald Trump, or, less likely, Marco Rubio versus Ben Carson. Jeb Bush once again failed to register, Rand Paul’s refreshingly rational views on foreign policy are out of step with those of his hawkish party, John Kasich is running for the nomination of a Republican Party that no longer exists, and failed CEO Carly Fiorina is a joke, despite her humorless blue steel intensity."
"Widely declared the debate’s victor, Rubio is moving into the position that Mitt Romney held four years ago—the establishment pick, not quite trusted by die-hard conservatives, with a series of wacky foils arrayed against him. On most issues, Rubio is a Romney or George W. Bush redux. But on reproductive rights, he’s more like Todd Akin. Rubio has been very clear that he believes that when a woman is impregnated through rape or incest, the state should force her to carry the pregnancy to term. The fact that the mainstream Republican favorite holds this position is a sign of just how far right the GOP has moved."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/11/11/marco_rubio_s_scary_abortion_beliefs_are_now_gop_mainstream.html
What should certainly be chilling for women and most other Americans is that Rubio is now considered mainstream in the GOP. Ted Cruz is seen as too extreme. But the Heritage Foundation rates Cruz 100% and Rubio 93%
The 2012 Mitt Romney would be on the Far Left in this primary.
I agree that Rubio is potentially very dangerous. First of all, you have to understand what Rubio''s strategy is. He's going to run as an agent of 'generational change' and this is on the basis of the fact that he's relatively young.
This is a biographical rather than a substantive argument. It's also rather blatantly ageist. Voters should see him as being about change because he's 44 and she's 68.
But because you are young in years hardly proves your ideas are young and Rubio's ideas are the same old tired GOP boilerplate they've been pushing for over 44 years.
He didn't like ending the Cuban embargo even though it didn't work. So he's on the side of the graybeards within his own Floridian Cuban community. The young folks are ready for new ideas. He wants an old failed idea.
His other ideas are about ending Medicare and tax cuts for the rich that dwarf those of George W. Bush. In fact, his tax plan is no more 'reality based' than that of Trump or Ben Carson.
This is something that Hillary will need to do deftly against him. Distinguish between being personally young and having fresh ideas.
Rubio's whole campaign is that he''s young, he's Latino, he's the poor boy of legal Cuban immigrants.
Because he's young he's going to imply that young people should vote for him.
Because he's Latino, he's going to imply that Latinos should vote for him.
Because he wasn't born rich and even because of his personal debt, he's going to suggest that Americans who struggle with debt and income should vote for him.
There's no doubt that he's the favorite of the Establishment.
The good news is that the base still seems to want an outsider. This still looks like it will be a very messy primary that could go all the way to the convention or close to it.
But liberals shouldn't buy into the idea that because he's mainstream in the GOP that means he's in anyway moderate or reasonable.
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