I just don't know how he thinks voters can feel confident considering him for President with the way he speaks about his current job. And it may be the first time I've said this for the entire campaign, but Jeb is right. If I'm a Florida constituent I feel ripped off after hearing what Rubio really thinks about his job that we elected him to.
"This year, as Rubio runs for president, he has cast the Senate — the very place that cemented him as a national politician — as a place he’s given up on, after less than one term. It’s too slow. Too rule-bound. So Rubio, 44, has decided not to run for his seat again. It’s the White House or bust."
“That’s why I’m missing votes. Because I am leaving the Senate. I am not running for reelection,” Rubio said in the last Republican debate, after Donald Trump had mocked him for his unusual number of absences during Senate votes."
Five years ago, Rubio arrived with a potential that thrilled Republicans. He was young, ambitious, charismatic, fluent in English and Spanish, and beloved by the establishment and the tea party"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2015/10/25/28cfaff0-6d59-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html
"This year, as Rubio runs for president, he has cast the Senate — the very place that cemented him as a national politician — as a place he’s given up on, after less than one term. It’s too slow. Too rule-bound. So Rubio, 44, has decided not to run for his seat again. It’s the White House or bust."
“That’s why I’m missing votes. Because I am leaving the Senate. I am not running for reelection,” Rubio said in the last Republican debate, after Donald Trump had mocked him for his unusual number of absences during Senate votes."
Five years ago, Rubio arrived with a potential that thrilled Republicans. He was young, ambitious, charismatic, fluent in English and Spanish, and beloved by the establishment and the tea party"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2015/10/25/28cfaff0-6d59-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html
I don't know how you feel confident with him in the White House. Maybe that gets boring for him too.
Meanwhile his answer to the mounting questions of his use of state credit cards for personal use-they weren't credit cards but charge cards and he wasn't born rich. Yes, well that clears it up.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/04/politics/marco-rubio-charge-card-credit-card/index.html
Credit car, charge card, his hometown Tamp Bay paper isn't impressed:
"It has become legend in Florida political circles, a missing chapter in Marco Rubio's convoluted financial story: two years of credit card transactions from his time in the state House, when he and other Republican leaders freely spent party money."
"Details about the spending, which included repairs for Rubio's family minivan, emerged in his 2010 U.S. Senate race. But voters got only half the story because the candidate refused to disclose additional records."
"Now Sen. Rubio's past is under fresh scrutiny as he emerges as a top presidential prospect. During last week's debate, he deflected questions about his financial discipline — most recently, he liquidated a retirement account — but those questions will only intensify."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/marco-rubio-spent-lavishly-on-a-gop-credit-card-but-some-transactions-are/2252470
Wow. It sounds like when Mitt Romney wouldn't show us his taxes.
"For years, I've been hearing that his credit cards are a disaster," Donald Trump said Tuesday during a news conference in New York City
"You tell them Donald! But it's worse than even Trump makes it sound. It's not just the hypocrisy of Rubio preaching austerity for us while he's a total spendthrift."
"As speaker of the Florida House, Rubio was one of about a half-dozen lawmakers given Republican Party of Florida credit cards. During the Senate race, the Times/Herald obtained Rubio's statements from 2006 and 2007, showing he routinely charged personal expenses, from a $10.50 movie ticket to a four-day, $10,000 family reunion."
"In those two years he charged about $110,000, and he said he sent about $16,000 to American Express to cover personal expenses, though the expenses were never detailed. In a 2012 memoir, he wrote, "From January of 2005 until October of 2008 I charged about $160,000 in party-authorized expenses."
"Now Sen. Rubio's past is under fresh scrutiny as he emerges as a top presidential prospect. During last week's debate, he deflected questions about his financial discipline — most recently, he liquidated a retirement account — but those questions will only intensify."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/marco-rubio-spent-lavishly-on-a-gop-credit-card-but-some-transactions-are/2252470
Wow. It sounds like when Mitt Romney wouldn't show us his taxes.
"For years, I've been hearing that his credit cards are a disaster," Donald Trump said Tuesday during a news conference in New York City
"You tell them Donald! But it's worse than even Trump makes it sound. It's not just the hypocrisy of Rubio preaching austerity for us while he's a total spendthrift."
His use of state GOP credit cards-or 'charge cards'-is especially egregious as he is literally stealing from Florida constituents who donated with a specific party or state purpose in mind."
As for his all purpose answer for everything-I'm a poor boy of good legal immigrants, not many of us can relate to having a party credit card for these kinds of expenses.
"A top strategist, Todd Harris, said Tuesday they would be released soon, possibly within the month, but declined to answer questions about what they might contain.""As speaker of the Florida House, Rubio was one of about a half-dozen lawmakers given Republican Party of Florida credit cards. During the Senate race, the Times/Herald obtained Rubio's statements from 2006 and 2007, showing he routinely charged personal expenses, from a $10.50 movie ticket to a four-day, $10,000 family reunion."
"In those two years he charged about $110,000, and he said he sent about $16,000 to American Express to cover personal expenses, though the expenses were never detailed. In a 2012 memoir, he wrote, "From January of 2005 until October of 2008 I charged about $160,000 in party-authorized expenses."
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