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Feb. 7, 2013 9:15am Becket Adams

Much like Newsweek, Time magazine will from time to time (get it?) publish a thought-provoking or controversial cover.

This week, it chose Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) as its subject:

And perhaps a little embarrassed by the slightly over-the-top rhetoric, Sen. Rubio responded to the cover with this tweet:

There is only one savior, and it is not me. #Jesus

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 7, 2013

Well how about that?

UPDATE — Time magazine responds:

@marcorubio Point taken, but we just said you’re the ‘Republican savior.’

— TIME.com (@TIME) February 7, 2013

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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:02am
Read history to know what the future has in mind…. Remember The Weimer Republic? The Great Depression had made millions homeless and one man promised employment, land and bread. he kept the promise but what did they end up with? I would not trade one despot for another nor would i call one a savior even if that liberal tp Time Mag said it were so. I know nothing of him but am wary of ANY politician.

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- DRSAVAGE24
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:10pm
  Doesn’t Rubio have a habit of voting for constitutional infringements like CISPA/SOPA/PIPA, NDAA, etc? He’s also been known to vote for raising the debt ceiling and the continuing resolutions to let Obama keep spending money we don’t have. He will get more conservative the next few years as he angles for the White House, but look at his voting record from 2010-2012. Big disappointment. Hence, he is Time’s best buddy.
  
  Time to get either Rand Paul in there or draft Judge Napolitano to bring some integrity and limited government once again.
  
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GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:01am
Will we ever have another presidential candidate who’s father was born in the US?

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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:04am
  likely not, its the one world order decree that USA be liquidated and the white bred out of us.
  
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- DennisNJ
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:04am
  Doubt it.
  
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- JamieReckless
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:32am
  way to have hope there hoss! we will never have another conservative in office, as long as folks like the current chair & karl rove push moderate republicans. grassroots conservatism, or we got progressives running this country.
  
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- ginap
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:44pm
  I’m not sure what having a father not born in the US has anything to do with the ability of someone to be a good president — both of my parents were not born in the US and I don’t see how that negatively affects me. In fact, I think it’s the opposite as my father came from Italy to the US when he was 16 for a better life and he preached that to me all the time — work hard and live a good life. He called himself an American and was proud to live in the US until he passed away at 67. And by the way, both of my parents were here legally.
  
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- checkingbothsides
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 4:10pm
  You know who else didn’t have fathers that were born in the U.S.? The Founding Fathers. Just sayin’
  
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- justsayin456
  Posted on March 13, 2013 at 10:03am
  Jesus wasn’t born in the U.S…
  
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Thinman
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:01am
If the Times likes him run away. The nepotism of the latin race has always been their downfall, is Rubio any different?

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- kryptonite
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:48am
  I am not concerned about his integrity. But he is weak. And Christie is a grossly obese turncoat.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:52pm
  I think Rubio was picked by Rove. Another massive failure coming their way.
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 3:01pm
  No, RUBIO was RUBIO before ROVE and ROVE was proven wrong like Morris this last election…all Rove has is some good ol’ boy’s money but he is very unpopular among the voters.
  
  Rubio is anything but weak. Get to know him. A good YouTube of him is his speech in 2011 at the Reagan Library. Stellar speech !
  
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NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:51am
THEMEEM
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:42am
Rubio was born in the U.S. He can be president.
Obama’s father wasn’t born in the U.S. and look where he is today, president.
Now if he was born in Cuba, and then came here, and became a citizen, then, no, he could not be president. Read links.
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Marco_Rubio

Hi TheMeem-

It looks to me like the founders called for not just a citizen, but one who’s loyalties are not divided by having parents of different nationalities. Thus, after our first president, all subsequent were required to be born of U S citizen parents. That’s how I understand it.

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- Red Meat
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:59am
  Rubio is a big government inside-the-beltway statist. I wish him luck with the politics within his
  decaying party.
  
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- Letthebulletsfly
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:12am
  Sorry but your understanding is wrong. Stay away from Wiki except for laughs.
  
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- Myron_J_Poltroonian
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 6:01pm
  @NOTBIGBOOTEEITSBIGBUTTAY,
  You might want to check somewhere else for answers to constitutional questions. I’d suggest heritage.com, and hillsdale.edu, as starters.
  
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- vendingdude
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 11:20am
  your loyalties and thus eligibilities for President, have more to do with your parents’ status (natural born citizen or naturalized) than where YOU were born.
  
  Rubio’s parents? Not citizens when Rubio born, Rubio ineligible, even though he was born in US
  McCain? parents citizens, even though John born outside continental US, still eligible
  Romney? parents citizens of US before Mitt born, Mitt eligible
  Obama? If you take (alleged) birth cert at face value, Obama born in Hawaii (again, alleged) but parent born out of country and not a natural or naturalized citizen of US, therefore Obama ineligible.
  
  Rubio should stick to being a leading senator, and should have used himself as a sacrifice in last election cycle to drum up the truthfulness of his OWN ineligibility to highlight the IMPOSTER”S ineligibility. Could have had a whole different result in 2008 or 2012.
  
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Tri-ox
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:48am
The GOP is pushing Rubio – they think that he is the party’s savior – they view him as their very own ‘obama’. Rubio is a progressive and an opportunist and he loves basking in the spotlight – he wants to be president, and he believes that his plan to grant INSTANT AMNESTY to 11 million + criminal invaders will put him in the White House – BUT, of course, these criminal invaders will vote democrat if they are granted amnesty.

The constant pandering to illegals from Rubio and the GOP must stop – it is a doomed strategy, and, Rubio’s plan to give his SOTU rebuttal in Spanish and English is the most disgusting example of opportunistic pandering we have ever seen from Republicans. The destructive progressives who have seized control of the GOP are working overtime to erase the already blurred line between the two parties – The Republican Party is quickly becoming indistinguishable from the democrat party – it is time for thinking Americans to abandon both.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:02am
  Si, es verdad.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:04am
  You’re right, Tri-Ox. We should all stay home in 2016 and let Hillary win. That’ll teach the establishment a lesson and help us push Ron Paul again. I’m sure this time, our strategy will work.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:25am
  You know Zorro, if you keep doing what you’ve always done and expect different results, you’re on the road to insanity.
  
  Your party refuses to offer up anything but left wing east coast progressives. That’s on you folks, not us.
  
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- Michelle_Baboonbutt
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:45am
  Remember, you can teach a parrot to speak spanish.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:36am
  GhostOfJefferson…who will help push your Libertarian agenda further, Hillary or Rubio? Be intellectually honest when you answer. I understand your position, guy. I really, honestly do and I’m with you. But you have to be intelligent about your decicsions. This is politics, not Star Trek. We don’t live in a society where everyone does the right thing. In fact, you have to count on the fact most people will f##k s##t up. But keep staying home and keep voting third party in general elections and it is you on your way to insanity, my friend.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:59am
  @GHOST
  if you keep doing what you’ve always done and expect different results, you’re on the road to insanity.
  —
  Ergo, Ron Paul is insane. lol
  
  A case of the pot calling the kettle black. It only goes to show that cults do not spare smart people.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:41pm
  GOP, the party of the pendajos.
  
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- smv803
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:17pm
  @truthnstuff…..it’s pendejos. Yup, and there are lots of them out there.
  
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- techengineer11
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:54pm
  Tri-ox
  
  While your post is right on target you have a mad man as your moniker trying to get the US into WW3.. How can someone make so much sense on one issue and be so utterly blind on another?
  
  So how much American blood and treasure should we be willing to expend to take out Iran? How much more should we borrow so that our children can be enslaved so that you and the other neo-cons can pound your chest?
  
  Hey I have a novel idea… why don’t we once again use the American military to protect the borders and sovereignty of the USA?? is that such an evil thing? Or must we traverse the globe continually seeking out villians in order to keep the American Military Industrial Complex humming?
  
  I think some Republicans have abandoned the Constitution and simply want the perpetual good War.. Of course that’s War without them participating.
  
  Personally I wish ever neo-con that loved War so much could experience a little taste of it for themselves.. Or better yet maybe their loved ones could experience a little War??
  
  But War is fun when someone else is doing the fighting isn’t it? No costs involved? Just put it on the credit card says the Neo-Con… The grandchildren will take care of it but I want to live large.. lol
  
  Sickos!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 2:58pm
  @Kryptonite
  
  And precisely where did I mention Ron Paul or state that I voted for him?
  
  You assume too much I’m afraid.
  
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huey6367
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:48am
Don’t let the MSM tell you who the GOP savior will be. Figure it out for yourself. Rubio is a good pick but I don’t know if he is the savior.

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- seek.the.truth
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:47am
  The MSM always picks the republican candidates. Our ability to elect truly conservative candidates through the republican party is gone.
  
  I will pray and work toward a solution, but I am not getting my hopes up.
  
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jay1975
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:46am
The savior of the GOP was Barry Goldwater. Too bad he was sacrificed in order to please the “moral majority”. The GOP will probably go the way of the Whigs now.

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- oldduffer
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:06am
  Remember that the Democrats demonized him no end. The commercial they ran was the nuclear bomb going off if Goldwater was elected. Just like Granny over the cliff and other demonizing ads they run. The Republicans won’t fight back because they want to be nice. Isn’t the old saying that fits the Democrats “nice guys finish last” seemingly true in regards to the Republicans? This group will just get an Obama light or same, and Rove will run with it. GOP is becoming obsolete because of the current leadership that are totally b all less.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:13am
  …and the Christian bashing continues. Sorry we are such a powerful voting bloc. Actually, no I’m not.
  
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- jay1975
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:37am
  SquidVetOhio, if your “moral majority” is such a powerful voting block, why is it the Republican candidate has only won the popular vote once in the last 6 elections? Your power is gone and what remains seems to be focused on dragging the GOP down with you. Your ilk destroyed the GOP and has left us with an extreme fringe that the majority has soundly rejected.
  
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- DRSAVAGE24
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:07pm
  The problem isn’t that there is a Christian right. It’s that the Christian right is only Christian on certain things, like abortion and gay marriage. When it comes to forced redistribution of wealth and growing the size of government, they aren’t Christian at all. They’re hypocrites who believe in stealing because they know what’s best for the rest of us. Pretty sure Jesus wouldn’t be cool with that. They talk about being Christian, etc.,, but they support candidates who want to grow government that tells us how to live our lives.
  
  I give you many of the Rick Santorum supporters in the last election cycle. This guy carried his cross right along wtih his sweater vest. Talked the talk about family values and being pro-life, but he’s also just chomping at the bit to bomb the hell out of Iran and he has a record of supporting big government, like with No Child Left Behind. He also voted to fund planned parenthood and HE’S the Christian conservative? Give me a consistent Christian conservative any day of the week and they’d be a great president. The hypocrites who wave their cross while growing the government deserve every bit of ridicule that they get.
  
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- jay1975
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:41pm
  DRSAVAGE24, you bring up some good points. Many of the “moral majority” types seem to only want to help the rich while shunning the poor. Didn’t Jesus say something about rich people not going to heaven (unless needles become so big that camels can fit through the eye)? All the “religious right” care about is abortion and gays. Their actual governance has been just big government intrusions based on their interpretation of their religion. It’s bad to have an abortion or let two gays marry, but it’s okay to bomb nations that are not an immediate threat to us while making the poor and middle class pay for it all.
  
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- goodone121
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:29pm
  @DRSAVAGE24:”…[B]ut [Santorum]’s also just chomping at the bit to bomb the hell out of Iran….” And what’s wrong with that? Normally, I would agree with you, but Iran is getting close to a nuclear enemy of US and ALLY ISRAEL. “…[A]nd he has a record of supporting big government, like with No Child Left Behind.” PROVE , not only THAT, but it’s NORMAL for him, and NOT an ANOMALY. In Newsbusters.org, we have a saying:”Link or Slink.”
  
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- jay1975
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 10:17am
  GoodOne121, why should anyone have to provide links for you? Are you incapable of discovering the truth for yourself? Anyway, here is a link or two for your uninformed, lazy ****:
  http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-government-conservative-looks-like/
  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/287068/santorum-s-big-government-conservatism-michael-tanner
  
  P.S. Stop being a low information voter, it’s pathetic.
  
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- goodone121
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 1:48pm
  It appears you were only able to find two links…shame, shame. As to why I asked the other person for links, like in a Court of Law, the onus of proof ALWAYS falls on the party advocating the positive claim.
  
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barber2
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:43am
Get ready for the infamous Democrat Media Character Assassination Squad to target Rubio.

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- cemerius
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:51am
  Too late, they have been in full damage control mode once he was elected the BEST Senator from Florida!!
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:39am
  Mr or Ms BARBER2,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Did you see how big his but is?
  
  It is so.
  
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NHwinter
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:39am
What is more important that the GOP’s next leader is this president throwing away our Constitution. If he really wants to get rid of our Constitution, then let him. That means we have no president, Congress or House. No one with the authority to tax us. No Supreme Court to rule on anything. Is that what they want? I think not, they want a dictator and that is not going to happen in America. At this point, there is no one strong enough to really lead America.

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- huey6367
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:51am
  I believe there is a revolution (possible civil war) brewing and you can credit the libs for the discontent in this country. We used to be a firecely independent people. Then the government starting handing things out and it has snowballed into today – an unsustainable mess that screams of the decline of a civilization. Bad things are coming. I have sensed it for years.
  
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NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:39am
Justin is good.

Glad there are some out there that are aware of him.

I can still count the decent, moral, law-abiding congressmen on one hand.

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- 3monkeysmomma
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:28pm
  Justin Amash? Love him!
  
  Rand Paul/Justin Amash 2012!
  
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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:44pm
  ALLEN WEST 2016?
  
  Allen West – November 30, 2012
  
  “Always remember, Abraham Lincoln only served one term in Congress, too.” “God closes a door so that he can open up greater doors.”
  http://www.npr.org/2012/11/30/166241059/what-allen-west-and-abraham-lincoln-have-in-common
  
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- WakingSheep
  Posted on February 8, 2013 at 1:48am
  F no
  
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AUsername
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:38am
hell no, American is an english speaking country not spanish and i will never vote for someone who wants illegals to get amnesty so they can take over this country, turn it into a ghetto and force us to learn spanish and persecute us because of our race and historical past. Joe BIden would be better even just because of that, sheesh. Rand Paul 2016.

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- Themeem
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:45am
  If you are white, then get busy and have more children.
  California is more Hispanic than White soon, like New Mexico. So stop bit..hing.
  
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flipper1073
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:36am
Sorry Guys,
Marco Rubio is NOT the Savior of the GOP.
First off the Establishment Republicans wont allow it.
He’s to close to the TEA Party.
The GOP wants Either Chris Christie or Jeb Bush.
Neither of which the Conservatives will Vote For.
Sound Familar ?
The Conservatives either have to take Control of the GOP.
or the GOP continues to LOSE.
We’re not going to Unite behind a Moderate Republican
But we Will behind a Constutitional Conservative.
To Me that Person is Sarah Palin but I Would Strongly Support
Rand Paul also
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- gryffn
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:42am
  Rubio is Christie 2.0. He is not a true conservative. He did nothing to support Col West and expose the Democratic voting fraud.
  All I see is Rand Paul. Hope he does not disappoint.
  Unless we can get the good Judge Napolitano to run!!
  
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- NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:44am
  I think Rand is our guy in 2016.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:46am
  How did that “taking over the GOP” work for you during the primaries?
  
  The GOP establishment doesn’t want our voices. They want us to dutifully pull the lever for them, but no other input is desired from us. Get it through your head, they consider us useful idiots. They will not offer a non-establishment candidate, and the less we vote for their east coast leftists the more they convince themselves that the reason the fail is because they haven’t went far enough to the left.
  
  Vote libertarian, or don’t vote.
  
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- NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:52am
  I’ll vote for the Judge
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:54am
  I’m not voting for another GOP until that party can show me that they are something better than Democrat (fascist) – lite. Rubio seems to want to doom the GOP with amnesty, ignoring the rest of us who worked damned hard through a legal immigration process. Playing race politics by Rubio is nauseating.
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:08am
  Yes, vote Libertarian. THIS time, it’ll work! Worse case, we get Hillary. And she is “the same” as Rubio, right foks? Just_the_same. I mean, if Gore had won in 2000, things would have gone just_the_same as they did with GWB.
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:02am
  Before I got to the end of your post I suspected Sarah Palin was your fav. Know how I knew? The complete lack of intelligence in your message and the Random Capitalization of Words.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:11am
  Tell me Zorro, how has that whole “vote for the Progressive with an R” after his name worked out for you? Feeling good about wasting your vote and then sneering at people who actually support liberty, unlike your candidate(s)?
  
  If you want my vote, you have to earn it. You do not get to assume that my values belong to you, they don’t. If you can’t offer what the market demands, you and your party go out of business. Which, if you haven’t looked around lately, is exactly what is happening. Being mad at the customers for not buying your product is ludicrous.
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:39am
  SIMPLETON
  SCREW YOU Troll
  Enough Capitals for Ya !
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:42am
  Umm actually, GhostOfJefferson…why don’t you tell me what voting a third party went for you? We’re in the same boat, bud. You lost becaus, as you claim, you voted for “liberty” and I lost because I voted for the guy who had the best chance to further my agenda. The point is, that if you and I got together for a beer, you’d find we agree on almost everything. We both lost because we were too stupid to agree on who we’d support. And when one of us lost in the primaries (you), one of us (you) like a child took their ball and went home, and we both ended up screwed with another four years of Obama.
  
  Good job, Conservatives.
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:08pm
  Simpleton
  Do you sometimes go by the name Stevepro or something like that ?
  He has Reading Comprehension Problems Also.
  Just Askin
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:14pm
  @GHOST
  Vote libertarian, or don’t vote.
  —–
  Really? For whom? Gary, the putz? Or is the sniper snapper going to glue his dead bones and divide us some more before he dies?
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:46pm
  The GOP jumped the shark, and had their cojones bit off. No more holding my nose, Libertarian or Conservative Party. Whichever candidate is the best. Voting 3rd party i snot a throw away vote anymore, since the GOP can never win again.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Actually Zorro, I’m working actively in the real world for liberty. I’m attending and helping organize armed protest events, I’m gathering people together to work for a common cause and am networking with hundreds of people these days, organizing a resistance, and setting up a framework that is being passed around the nation even now of non-compliance with what the government is doing by trying to destroy our rights.
  
  Beats thinking that voting for a leftist east coast Progressive is going to magically give me freedom, wot? But hey, keep pulling those levers on machines made by Soros company Diebold, it clearly must feel good. :)
  
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- Myron_J_Poltroonian
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 6:16pm
  “Palin/Bachman Overdrive”, “2016 – The Year Of Real Women”
  
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UBETHECHANGE
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:36am
I respect Rubio for coming out against the label of savior. You don’t see “the One” doing that. But him supporting this immigration reform sham has turned me totally off.

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- CatB
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:20pm
  I agree but I think he is naive on immigration and part of his schooling was given to him by Rush. Rubio sadly thinks illegals want what his parents did ..a better life through hard work. For the most part they do not … they want to be taken care of. He did say the border must be secured first … but we heard that before in 1986 .. if he can show the Dems have no interest in doing so then perhaps he has a chance to set the narrative. And we can ki ll amnesty.
  
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Comrade_Bob
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:36am
Marco Rubio wants to admit more meso-American evolved people into the United States, and meso-American evolved people currently vote 75-25 for the political party offering centralized control and a welfare state that sucks but still beats the $3/day Jorge earns working in the Honduran fields. This voting ratio will grow as the American Balkanization continues on schedule.

This is why Time Magazine advocates more influence for Marco Rubio. Time Magazine is based in New York City and its managing editor is Richard Stengel, whose ethnicity we are not allowed to discuss. If you view his Wikipedia page, it appears that Richard is fond of wearing makeup. As these people consolidate power, it becomes easier to observe their agenda. It is a mistake to underestimate their vindictiveness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stengel

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- kryptonite
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:37pm
  What really gets me is that it’s always our party that grants amnesty, but the Dims who reap the rewards. When are we going to wake up and fight back — literally.
  
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siguy62
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:34am
This cover is all about 2016. They are even more afraid of Marco Rubio than they were of prominent Black Repbs last year. (Herman Cain, Mia Love, Tim Scot and Allen West come immediately to mind)

The left knows they can’t win over any more African Americans, but they are somewhat vulnerable in the Hispanic community. They will do all they can to prop Rubio up during the next few years and then savage him during the general election. It’s what they did in 2008 and 12 and it’s what they are going to do in 2016. The plan is to discredit Republican outreach to the Hispanic community. Have it all vested in Rubio, and then by destroying Rubio, they destroy the Republican outreach, and lock down the Hispanic vote for at least a decade or two.

One caveat. If he starts to show real traction with the HIspanic comminuty during the next 18 months or so, he will be savaged a bit earlier.

Let’s see, there’s a giant list of racist names for ANY Republican Blacks. Lets see how large and quickly a similare list of such names grows for Republican Hispanics. My guess is that it will grow quickly.

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- GetRight
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:57am
  Hmmmm, interesting. I see what you are saying. I was suspicious by this Time magazine cover and what the real motive is. Your theory makes sense. There is so much about Rubio I like but this amnesty stuff has turned me off. It is all about votes for the GOP not true Constitutional ideas and values. They need the Hispanic votes. Period. And the left will use that to destroy them. I’m so disgusted with the left and betrayed by the GOP. Of course the left loves this war between the GOP and Tea Party. Either the true Conservatives take back the GOP or it’s over. They became big government hypocrites and betrayed the people. So now what?
  
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wordweaver
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:31am
This rag is in no position to pronounce who should lead the Republican Party. They are now a joke in the media world.

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- GuruMeditation
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:32am
  The media is the joke. A real bad one.
  
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- Tigress1
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:00am
  The “media world” is nothing but Progressive propagandists. They are simply a tool for the global Communists who are being USED but are too stupid to realize it. The Blaze may not be perfect, but at least they are not part of that “media world”.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:57pm
  We will never get a real chance at winning the presidency unless and until we depose the media. The media rules with Obama. And that’s not an overstatement.
  
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GuruMeditation
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:30am
Enough with the savior and messiah BS when referring to mundane politicians.

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perry1980
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:27am
Yes he is.
Now watch the media try and tear him down.

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NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:27am
Server upgrade coming?

This one’s a bit slow to update posts.

Hi Glenn.

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NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:25am
“There is only one savior, and it is not me. #Jesus
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 7, 2013″

Boy, you sure got that more right than you know!

Looking forward to your amnesty plan………….NOT!
As a law-abiding voter, I can’t vote for you as president either. Need Citizen parents to be eligible.

You do have some good courage though and seem a decent chap. You would make a good local politician, say a mayor or something.

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- Themeem
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:42am
  Rubio was born in the U.S. He can be president.
  Obama’s father wasn’t born in the U.S. and look where he is today, president.
  Now if he was born in Cuba, and then came here, and became a citizen, then, no, he could not be president. Read links.
  http://www.ask.com/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause
  http://www.ask.com/wiki/Marco_Rubio
  
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Lloyd Drako
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:23am
If his name were Mark Rubin both right and left would pay far less attention to him.

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- gryffn
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:44am
  You got that right!
  
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theonlynana
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:22am
Rubio needs more seasoning

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- crazyrightwingmom
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:03am
  And Obumma was seasoned??? Oh,right…he was indoctrinated in Indonesia.
  
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RaydocX
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:20am
Rubio is trying to maintain Conservative standards AND help address the immigration problem in a rational way, which i appreciate, and which may contribute to a greater Hispanic voting block, which the Dems should fear.

It’s the responsibility of those he represents to keep reminding him that the onus is on reducing Federal governing and spending, and giving power back to the state and individual.

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- whatsallthisthen
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:38am
  Mr. Ray, would you please describe our “immigration problem” To me our immigration laws seem rational. Perhaps if we just called law breakers “inlaws” instead of “outlaws” we could a “rational” conversation about the “inlaw problem” we have in this country.
  
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Joss
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:19am
His bilingual GOP response to the State of the Union is, of course, an awful strategy. If he can’t do it in Farsi as well, then he should not do it in Spanish.

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:17am
I think it’s funny when the Left tries to pick who should lead their opposition. What’s even funnier, in a very sad funny kind of way, is how the GOP gets into lockstep and follows their orders.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:25am
  Exactly!
  
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- gyro
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:28am
  and loses elections
  
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- RANGER1965
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:35am
  Perfectly said.
  
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- flipper1073
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:44am
  GhostofJefferson
  You’re right the GOP gets right in line.
  Problem is the Conservatives DON’T
  leading Conservatives is like Herding Cats.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 9:59am
  FLIPPER: Which is just what the Democrat Trolls will exploit like they do here.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:03am
  Well put Ghost.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:49am
  Mr or Ms GHOSTOFJEFFERSON,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  Yes, yes . . . victimized yet again. The Left picking the Right’s candidates. Trust me, if the Left were in control of your candidates, it would have been Sarah Palin who lost instead of Mitt Romney. This much is clear, unless conservatives like you start taking responsibility for your own (and your own actions) you’ll never be respected or taken seriously by anybody. Not convinced? OK . . . Why should we trust or respect (or elect) you clowns when you don’t even have the strength or courage or brains to be able to pick your own candidate?
  
  This is a real pleasure to watch – a conservative identity crisis and a crash of confidence driven by a social and demographic wave of indifference toward your regressive attitudes. Happy happy joy joy.
  
  Tell us, GHOST, which candidate is the right candidate to defeat Hlllary? And not more of your vague and non-commital, “Some one . . . ” A name. Who is it? Be brave enough to be specific.
  
  It is so.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:13am
  I adore how I can make Sensei come out of character and get snarky in paragraph form. It’s good to know that I’m renting space in his brain, free of charge. :)
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:15am
  Oh, by the way, I’m a libertarian, not a conservative. You’ve been corrected on this before, but I do understand that Remembering Things Can Be Hard ™.
  
  ;)
  
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- zorro
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:00pm
  You mean how you followed their orders by falling for the whole “GOP vs. Tea Party” garbage, voted for a Libertarian with a zero chance of cracking 10% of the vote let alone winning, easily securing their guy another four years in office? Yeah, that’s pretty funny. But it’s not about getting us one step closer to a truly free society with a truly free market. It’s about not voting GOP, getting Democrats in office, and going backwards into Socialism and government dependency.
  
  You think you’ve won? Respectfully, you’re a fool.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:25pm
  Mr or Ms GHOST,
  
  This is what you must know:
  
  1. libertarian/conservative. There is no difference anymore.
  
  2. You’re reading me even though I’m on your “no read” list. Who’s in whose head?
  
  3. A name.
  
  It is so.
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:54pm
  Ron Paul zealots don’t follow the left’s orders. They ALLY with the left. They divide, and the left conquers. I wouldn’t call them useful idiots, except for a few feeble-minded sheeple they have managed to deceive. These are traitors, plain and simple.
  
  We conservatives naively hope against hope that we will bring them back into the fold. I’ve got news for you: BOTH parties have been infiltrated by extremists. Unfortunately for RP, he lost to the “better” radical. However, his zealots won’t let up until they have taken over or destroyed the GOP. Like all cowards, they go after what is not theirs, because they know they will never rise as a third party.
  
  Some of you are hung up on “Don’t forget Benghazi,” where OBAMANITES lost their lives doing the traitor’s bidding. But where’s the outrage for the vile, hate-filled comments — reminiscent of the left — these Paulists spewed against American patriot, hero, father, brother Chris Kyle, and against our good friend, Glenn Beck, with whom we don’t always agree, but who has worked relentlessly to expose the traitor in the WH? These so-called libertarians are despicable and dangerous. Please, look at the other hand.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:00pm
  Zorro,
  
  Well, let’s see, Romney couldn’t even muster the votes that McCain got in 2008. You may wish to blame the tea party/libertarians, but fact is most of your rank and file abandoned you as well. Maybe you folks should take a lesson from this and stop offering up east coast leftist rinos? Or, you can continue to flail on about people like me, while ignoring that your own rank and file can’t even stomach the options your feeding them any longer.
  
  Respectfully.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:05pm
  @Sensei
  
  See, you don’t even understand the ban you’re on.
  
  I’m not going to debate 2nd Amendment rights with you, and in that respect, you’ll get nothing but a polite middle finger from me. Everything else is still open, on a thread by thread basis, assuming you don’t goof up right out of the gate. Everybody deserves a chance to enjoin in civil conversation on a given topic. Now you know your parameters and now you, hopefully, grasp the situation.
  
  And if you can’t see a difference between libertarians and the right, you clearly have no idea what libertarians are. Have you missed my countless posts where I state that I have no problem with gays, where I have a big issue with the War on Drugs, where I come out against Homeland Security and the “patriot act”, where I come out against police abuse, where I deride warantless searches, and where I want the military brought back home and where I note that only Congress can declare war?
  
  Clearly, you have. And if you believe these are minor trifles between the right and libertarians, just ask any hard core conservative how trivial they are.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 3:10pm
  @Kryptonite
  
  So apparently it appears that a libertarian ran over your dog when you were a kid. Hey, keep him tied up better in your yard next time, k? :)
  
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