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Give that man a glass of water!

Patterico (86c8ed) — 2/6/2016 @ 12:34 pm

sheena easton wants her shoulder pads back

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 12:36 pm

please

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 12:36 pm

To each their own, but this kind of humor is part of current political problem. You don’t have to cheer people, but this is awfully Jon Stewart-y.

Snark rules, as do bumper stickers.

Simon Jester (7130cd) — 2/6/2016 @ 12:43 pm

Kind of Trumpian Humor…

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2016 @ 12:45 pm

Would Cruz approve?

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2016 @ 12:46 pm

everyone hates marco cause he’s a sleazy-poof

what’s exciting is when he fails he’s done done done being a water-carrying sleaze-pig in the senate and goes straight to being a lobbyist, which is his destiny

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 12:52 pm

Hillary! and Bernie! and for that matter Jeb! have never publicly sipped on a bottle of water.

Hence we know through lack of DNA evidence, none of them thirst for power. Because they don’t thirst!

It’s axiomatic, friends.

Steve57 (f61b03) — 2/6/2016 @ 12:59 pm

He’s cute and who doesn’t like cute? If he wins, I really hope there’s more to him than that.

DRJ (15874d) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:12 pm

Better Rube than tubed!

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:33 pm

“Would Cruz approve?”

I don’t think so. It’s overkill. Ted told me Mario was dropping out of the race.

NCC (1ea7f3) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:35 pm

Pay station, maybe…

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:37 pm

Whoops

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:37 pm

Be-cankled Hillary belongs in a pillory

Before I’d vote Bernie, I’d choose Bert n’ Ernie

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:41 pm

If Rubio becomes our nominee, he’ll go all Daniel Day Lewis and drink Hillary’s milkshake.

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:44 pm

go to k street go directly to k street do not pass go do not collect $200

except for roobs it would be more like lunt street cause he’s such a

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:53 pm

pickle

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:54 pm

Plenty of people have slammed Rubio on immigration, so I’ll skip that. Some, me included, have slammed him for backing the disastrous Hillary/Obama middle east fiasco (several of them, including Egypt and Libya) so I’ll skip that too.

Let’s talk about the deficit. Rubio’s tax plan has as its centerpiece an additional refundable tax credit of $2500 per child on top of the existing $1000. What that is is a huge new entitlement program, to cost in the neighborhood of 100 billion a year.

Rubio’s side claims this is a tax cut. It is not, and they are counting on voter ignorance to hide the fact that a refundable tax credit is a very different thing from a deduction. The latter reduces your taxable amount by the amount of the deduction (so if you’re in the 20% bracket, a 2500 deduction reduces your tax liability by $250, but cannot reduce it below zero) A refundable tax credit, on the other hand, reduces your tax liability dollar for dollar, but most important is the refundable part. Let’s say your total tax liability is $500 without the credit, and you’ve paid zero withholding. The $2500 tax credit means the taxpayers are going to write you a check for $2000 for the first child, and $2500 for every additional one. This is absolutely no different from any other welfare program, because that’s what it is, it’s simply using the IRS as the hound-out agency.

In no way whatsoever is creating a massive new entitlement program fiscally sane, let alone fiscally conservative. Yet, we’re supposed to think that Rubio is a “true conservative” aside from immigration? This begs the question; is Rubio right that most Republican voters are dumb enough to buy into his claims without even bothering to use google?

Arizona CJ (da673d) — 2/6/2016 @ 1:58 pm

Arizona CJ, as you mentioned in another thread, you would consider voting for the Democrat nominee over Rubio.
How exactly would that propel conservatism?

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/6/2016 @ 2:03 pm

How is this funny? This is childish — and Rubio’s already taken possession of the water jokes, IMO.

Mitch (bfd5cd) — 2/6/2016 @ 2:03 pm

“Gouda” (and other Super Bowl love songs)

What’ll you do when you get hungry
And nothing’s waiting In your fridge?
You’ve been running and dieting much too long.
You owe yerself just a smidge
Gouda, you’ve got me on my knees.
Gouda, cheese n’ crackers if you please.
Gouda… Gouda won’t you ease my hunger pangs

I tried to take some consolation
In eatin’ rice cakes and tofu
Like a fool, I fell in love with you,
Turned my whole crib upside down.
Gouda, you’ve got me on my knees.
Gouda, cheese n’ crackers if you please.
Gouda… Gouda won’t you ease my hunger pangs

Let’s take this half-time situation
Make cheese and crackers fall like rain
Please don’t say I’ll never find the tray
And tell me there’ll be no weight gain
Gouda, you’ve got me on my knees.
Gouda, cheese n’ crackers if you please.
Gouda… Gouda won’t you ease my hunger pangs

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2016 @ 2:09 pm

I always hated that song anyway…

Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 2/6/2016 @ 2:12 pm

@ Cruz Supporter post #19;

“Arizona CJ, as you mentioned in another thread, you would consider voting for the Democrat nominee over Rubio.
How exactly would that propel conservatism?”

I can best answer that with a question; how would voting for someone who is not a conservative (his record is what it is) on ANY major issue (immigration, foreign policy, fiscal policy, the economy) and merely pretends to be, propel conservatism? My take is that electing an utter fraud as a conservative would hurt worse than losing the election. Further, my guess is that Rubio would be more likely than a D to get his high legal immigration plus amnesty agenda through congress, so I’ll take my chances with a Democrat in the white house and hope the Republicans in congress grow spines.

Will I actually vote D for president for the first time in my life if Rubio is the R nominee? Frankly, I have no idea, as it depends on circumstances at that time. If it looks like Rubio is going to lose anyway, then heck no – I’ll vote third party of leave that section of the ballot blank. All that’s absolutely final for this purple state resident is that I will not, ever, vote for Rubio. I will, however, crawl over broken glass to both vote for and support (I usually do GOTV volunteer work on election week, as well as donate) any R nominee not named Bush or Rubio, even if it’s one I strongly dislike, like Kasich.

Arizona CJ (da673d) — 2/6/2016 @ 2:32 pm

Sorry. Count me in the minority, too. I don’t think he’s sleazy and no more power hungry than any other Cuban-American now running for the Presidency.

nk (9faaca) — 2/6/2016 @ 2:32 pm

oh c’mon his sneaky amnesty schemes what he did with his bff chuck schumer were at least a little sleazy no

and how he does unspeakable things behind closed doors for his sugar daddies

and plus he drinks water like a little

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 2:45 pm

picklehead

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 2:45 pm

Arizona CJ,
Ultimately, it just comes to down to a subjective opinion. You believe Rubio is a liberal, and I believe he’s a conservative. I think he’d certainly be the most conservative nominee since Reagan. And the fact that we keep nominating Bushes, and McCains, and Doles, and Romneys is not due to Karl Rove sending secret messages through his whiteboard. Rather the problem is that there simply aren’t enough conservatives among the GOP primary electorate in order to consistently nominate a conservative. It’s just math. Ted Cruz had to win a run-off election in the Texas GOP Senate primary, before he graduated to the general election against a Democrat. Let’s not forget that. And that’s Texas.

In life, we rarely get a “perfect” choice. Hardly anyone lives in their “dream house.” Rather, we live in the house we could best afford at the time, considering we were merely choosing from among houses that were on the market at the time. The same with jobs…raise your hand if you ever worked a job that you didn’t especially care for. But, you took it because it was the best available option to you at the time, right?

It’s the same with politics. We can only choose a nominee from among those whose names appear on the ballot. We don’t get to vote for Coolidge, or Goldwater, or Reagan since their names are not on the ballot. Everyone—including Governor Reagan—has some bad votes/decisions. Sometimes they took a position because they believed in it, and sometimes it was due to pressures from constituents and/or lobbyists. But that’s often the big question in representative democracy…are we electing someone to go to Washington DC and impose their own views? Or are we electing someone to be a vehicle for the collective (or majority) views of the constituents he represents? And that’s why the House has elections scheduled for every two years, so that the legislative body closest to the people can keep a check and balance on their representative.

The other thing is, the consequences of an election is not merely an exercise in abstract ideas. There are REAL consequences. People get hurt by a lagging economy, and people get killed when there’s a President who advocates a weak foreign policy. And so while I would ideally love to have a Coolidge, Goldwater, Reagan, or Kemp as President, I will still vote for whomever the GOP nominee is. Inflicting Hillary Clinton on the country as a means of teaching ignorant Americans a lesson, is not what I’m about.

The GOP is a center-right party, not a conservative party. If Rubio becomes the nominee, it’s because it reflects the will of the GOP primary electorate. The notion that there’s a conservative majority among the GOP electorate which is constantly being thwarted by evil villain Karl Rove and his magic whiteboard is just an escapist fantasy which some of our friends won’t let go of.

Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 2/6/2016 @ 3:10 pm

rico suave the douche-hole sat behind his desk in the oval office, wondering what new adventures the day would bring.

“el presidente you have visitor,” said his wife, jiggles suave, through the intercom, then giggled stupidly at her own joke.

rico undid a fourth button on his shirt and said, “please to send them in jiggles. I’ve been wondering what new adventures this day would bring, and it would seem I’m on the very cusp of finding out!”

Chuck Schumer oozed into the room. “No no don’t get up,” he said. “I’ll only be a minute. Here’s your agenda for this week,” handing rico a thumb drive.

“Thank you senor,” said rico, appreciatively.

“If you have any questions just shoot an email. Don’t call,” said Chuck, making to leave. He turned at the door. “And drink some goddamn water. You look parched.”

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 3:17 pm

@ Cruz Supporter (post #27)

Your reply is well thought out. However, my big problem with Rubio isn’t so much that I think he’s a liberal (though he is on some issues) but that he’s a proven liar who has deliberately lied to voters to get elected. That’s IMHO proven by facts, given his Florida legislature positions on Amnesty, then his senate run positions, followed by his immediate total flip to the Gang of 8, and also that every single one of his Senate bills had increased immigration as a main point. He didn’t change his mind, he outright lied to deceive voters (I’d be quite willing to forgive the former, but not the latter).

I’ve long considered any politician who deliberately lies to voters just to get elected antithetical to the concept of Democracy, and a direct threat to it. It’s something I won;t tolerate, even if I agree with their actual position on the issue.

I’ve voted R in every presidential election since I’ve been of age, save for my first, when I was 18. Then, I voted for Perot. I even held my nose and voted for McCain, whom I’ve long loathed (he’s my senator) in 2008, but I swore “never again”.

In Rubio’s case, the fact that he deliberately lied to voters is, given his record, unarguable. That’s a big part of why I will never vote for him.

I’m not looking for a conservative purist, as I’m far from one myself (I’m a libertarian on a lot of issues). Of course I won’t ever see a dream candidate, I never have and never will. In this election, Ted Cruz is my preference, though I disagree with him on quite a few things. As I’ve said, I’ll also willingly settle for most any other R candidate, and not just vote, but donate and do GOTV work (even if it’s Kasich, ugh).

If Rubio becomes the nominee, only one of two explanations seems viable. Either, A, a majority of Republicans agree with him and support Hillary/Obama’s mideast fiascoes, massive new budget-busting entitlement programs, corporate cronyism such as sugar subsidies for his sugar industry donors, and his real stance on amnesty and massively increasing legal immigration as well. Or, option B, the majority of Republicans don’t agree with him on most of those issues, but he successfully dupes them because they won’t even bother to use google before jumping on the bandwagon, and thus have no clue what they’re voting for.

There’s also the issue that Rubio isn’t electable, because the Democrats will joyfully expose his record to drive down R turnout, and he’ll lose due to the same dynamic Romney did.

And yes, elections do have consequences. That’s true of primary elections too.

Arizona CJ (da673d) — 2/6/2016 @ 4:21 pm

Ouch. Another gut punch by Hahn at Breitbart…

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/06/senior-senate-staffer-reveals-the-marco-rubio-story-youve-never-heard/

pieter (ec44a2) — 2/6/2016 @ 4:42 pm

Arizona, great analysis…completely concur. I don’t think there will be enough Prozac post-primary to get me off the ledge. A Rubio nomination will clarify my worst suspicions.

pieter (ec44a2) — 2/6/2016 @ 4:49 pm

happy, your last comment is hilarious. Thanks very much…Rico Suave, Manchurian Democrat (heh heh).

pieter (ec44a2) — 2/6/2016 @ 4:52 pm

30 – thanks.
It is a shame team republican isn’t so republican.

mg (31009b) — 2/6/2016 @ 4:55 pm

you not oppose to encourage me

happyfeet (831175) — 2/6/2016 @ 4:55 pm

I hope Ted can turn this rubio dream into a rubio nightmare in tonights debate.

mg (31009b) — 2/6/2016 @ 4:58 pm

Pieter, thank you, and thank you for the Breitbart story.

And, in light of Rubio’s debate performance, that book title at the top of this thread should be,

My thirst for power, my thirst for power, my thirst for power, my thirst for power.

🙂

Arizona CJ (da673d) — 2/6/2016 @ 9:01 pm

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Photoshop: Rubio Looking Parched on New Book Cover

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