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Who Is Time’s GOP ‘Savior’ & What Does He Have To Say About It?

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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NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:44am
LETTHEBULLETSFLY
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:12am
Sorry but your understanding is wrong. Stay away from Wiki except for laughs.

Sorry you feel that way. I encourage you to read this, as it may change your mind:

http://publiushuldah.wordpress.com/category/natural-born-citizen/

An excerpt:

“The republican concept of “natural born citizenship” is radically different from the feudal notion of “natural born subjectship.” Under feudalism, merely being born in the domains of the King made one – by birth – a “natural born subject”. But in Vattel’s Model and Our Constitutional Republic, Citizens are “natural born” only if they are born of Citizens.”

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- NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:08pm
  My appologies-
  
  Should have directed the to TheMeem.
  
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WhatTheFrack
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:41am
I’d vote Rubio/West no doubt and likely Rubio anybody (likely) otherwise Libertarian all the way. GOP is done otherwise, except for Rand of course.

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AmericanStrega
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:40am
This is what you must know:

You will be dead long before 2024. How? Your chosen government will have killed you off since you will no longer be the useful idiot they are now playing you for. You’ll become one of the useless eaters. How great is that?

It WILL be so.

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- AmericanStrega
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:45am
  I posted the above in response to Senseless. Thanks Blaze for placing it in the proper context.
  
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woodyee
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:39am
Rubio – “It’s Not Me.”

Dang straight, boy! Tea party favorite opposed to illegal immigration, now favoring AMNESTY, has joined the ranks of the RINO’S, imho.

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- AmericanStrega
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:46am
  You’re right WOOD. I will not vote for Rubio for that simple fact.
  
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- truthnstuff
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:28pm
  Yep! The hell with Rubio another RINO lite.
  
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- JJohnGalt2
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 1:01pm
  Yep, Obama Trolls disguised as libertarian.
  
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profile-two
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:36am
I respect and like Senator Rubio a lot, but I have no idea who I will vote for in 4 years. This much I do know, it will not be a Democrat. I just can’t trust them.

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- AmericanStrega
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 12:05pm
  PROFILE-TWO:
  Do not trust the repubs either. The majority of the politicians do not have the American People’s interest at heart. They’re just looking for more power and money.
  
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Simonne
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:33am
Rubio realizes for Republicans to win elections, they have to do something with immigration & most Americans are for it. I agree with them it has to start with the border so we don’t have a repeat of what happened in the eighties. My fav for 2016 are Paul Ryan & Marco Rubio. I can no longer add Christie to the list because of his snoozefest with Obama during Sandy which further hurt Romney.

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RodT82721
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:28am
Time is not a conservative cheerleader, so lets be clear what this is all about. IMHO this is just the beginning of a leftist combined attack on someone they fear all most a much as Rush and Sarah Palin.
Like the left’s on going news of the civil war in the Republican party, this is just one of the 1st shots in the campaign to destroy Marco. They have been really successful in the recent past. They got rid of any conservative that might have had a chance in the 2012 primaries. They turned Romney into the scourge of the Nation!

They have the complete support of the so called Republican establishment.
I hope that far more have seen this tactic for just what it is, a campaign of smears, innuendos, and outright lies, for the benefit of the low information voter.
Their campaign lost a lot of voters in the 2012 election, they won, but not anywhere near the landslide they were shooting for.
Times, they are a-changing.

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YtownSports
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:27am
This will probably be like putting someone on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Disaster will soon follow. How about letting the GOP (and, for that matter, the Democrats), pick their own candidates rather than have them selected in the media. Hopefully, the selection process will also take into account who citizens feel is best for the country.

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JEANNIEMAC
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:21am
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/
Check here for the latest news on the eligibility cases against Obama, coming up on Feb. 15 at the Supreme Court.
Rubio may be a good person, but he is not eligible for the presidency.

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- NotBigBooteeitsBigButtay
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:46am
  I am completely satisfied that Obama is ineligible.
  
  He was not born of only United States Citizens.
  
  I don’t think and state should have had him on the ballot until this “question” about eligibility was answered.
  
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LukeAppling
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:19am
We’ll see as Marco advances his cause. Jindal looked good in 208 until he talked with his Mr. Rogers sweater drooping over his shoulder or recently when he gave a lasting sound bite for the next elections about his “stupid party”. These temporary hero’s come and go until they say something improper or something that can be used by Obama and his media as a wedge like”gun control, war on women, rape, free contraceptives et al” The media is being used by Obama as a tool to advance his Marxist agenda and destroy America. Do not help him.

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V-MindMeld
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:16am
Rubio is cool…..he has the passion we need and is straight forward and wise enough to know we as conservitives are going to have to appease the latino’s if we ever hope to regain power. Good answer too,,,,only 1 savior and thats Jesus, and that is why this guy could go to the top one day. Now as far as Time magazine goes? well they still suck.

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RinkyDink34
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:13am
I am tired of the Grand Old Party letting the Democrats Roll over them like a Monster Truck crushing Beer Cans.
Come 2014-2016 elections I am going to Vote MY Choice; No More Compromise Votes, Never More!

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liljoe62
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:10am
It really DOESNT matter anymore, WHO the Republicans run! The media, will smear, and lie to keep WHOMEVER the conservatives put out there, to be WRONG for the country, PERIOD!!! The MEDIA runs the show now! NOT a president, or a congress! Whomsoever the MEDIA backs, thats who wins! And thats the (plain truth) anymore! Sad, but true! Ipad, Ipod, all the ease of access to MEDIA! We no longer have a president, we have a CELEBRITY in chief!

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MNYukon
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:08am
Liberal news media again trying to pick the GOP candidate so they can start their slander and taking apart a candidate. GOP, keep your mouths shut and stay off the liberal media programs including Sunday morning, 60 minutes and all the stupid female talk programs

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AmericanStrega
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:06am
I’ve held my nose and voted for many repubs in the past. I don’t think I can do it again. What’s the point? They’re all the same (dems and repubs).

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Punderous
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:06am
I think they should run the Florida ticket. Allen West and Marco Rubio.

With any luck by 2015 the old guard of the Republican Party will be enjoying their retirement. The republican party doesn’t need to become more like the Democrats. They need to become more like the framers. Drop the social engineering (that is what makes them like Democrats/Progressives). They need to focus on Constitutional Law, Fiscal Responsibility and Purging DC of Corruption. If they do that they will wake up the electorate… TEA Party…. Are you listening?????

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- Concernd4USA
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:35am
  In case you were not listening in 2012 the majority of people do not want super small government. Everytime they were offered that they said no thanks.
  
  I want efficient government not small government. Our military budget alone is massive. Do I want to get rid of needless red tape you betcha, but s large portion of our government needs to be there.
  
  Small governments are vulnerable, notice that you do not see Russia, China, France, England getting overthrown because they have a substantial military. The government needs to be smaller than it is but this notion of going home for a 6 months like they do in Texas will not work on a federal level.
  
  So far the only thing the tea party has managed to do is move people who were center right out of office and keep far left idiots like McCaskil in there.
  
  We deserved to lose in 2012 I wanted any one but Obama but Romney really? He was a weakling entering a title fight against a master politician. He was wishy washy at best and looked like a robot up there. Then you add the legitimate rape and probing issues in an election year and guess what the outcome will be.
  
  The left was energized and the right was not Romney did not energize 1 person to vote and the result was that we lost. We let the left pick who we were going to throw up against them and we lost big time. Time to rethink some things.
  
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solo1
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:05am
Time magazine? who cares. Its dead.

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pushinginto
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:04am
Ted Cruz > Rubio.

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mrjeepin82
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:03am
You are so right “Stuck_In_Ca” About the touch screen voting machines. Unless they do away with them we will have voter fraud X 1000. Need to go back to the fill in the bubble and maybe add the purple finger thing see what happens?

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Canada_Goose
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:03am
I’ve got to give Mr. Rubio credit for sticking to his guns when he went on Mr. Limbaugh’s show.

He did not kneel down and kiss the “Golden EIB Mike” as many Republicans have done before him.
Off course Mr. Limbaugh is not really interested in the GOP winning elections, in fact most of time his rhetoric actually helps elects Democrats.

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JamieReckless
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:00am
the Herman Cain in 2016..i’m done w/ mainline republicans….we need real people who are true to the concerns of the majority of the populous. not the cookie cutter (or blob of dough, that is chris christie) politicians. we need folks like allen west, tim scott, micele bachmann types. i personally wold love to see a cain/rubio 2016 poster. or west/bachmann, or cain/west, anyone except….mccain/????? or romney/????. a Cain/Romney…or West/Christie. i would be comfortable w/ rubio or christie either one as a VP…but not president

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dfrosted
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:00am
Please tell me how he tweeted from the future?????????

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Concernd4USA
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:58am
The republicans don’t need a savior they need to leave the extreme right and move to a center right position. Stop focusing on things that they cannot do anyway.

Santorum for example was a great guy who ran on abortion rights. Really you need a 2/3 vote on both sides to repeal a law, there was no way to get there and we lost a good candidate because of it.\

One state that we were a shoe in to win was Missouri where McCaskil voted against what her people wanted every time to back Obama.

We throw a nut job in there that is so far to the right that every woman under 50 out there cringed when they heard about legitimate rape.

We did this over and over.

I love Glenn he is a brilliant man when it comes to finding the bad guys but he is blind politically and causing the party to move so far to the right that only millionaires and religious fanatics can support him.

He should listen to his own words. The country has shifted and the new normal is center left you cannot beat that with far right crap.

I personally am against abortion and want us to be fiscally sound, but the people that are represented are closer to center hence the name center (where most of the people are)

Then we have bobby jindall giving more fodder to the press “we have to stop being the stupid party” shut up. while he is right it is time for the republicans to stop giving sound bites to a media that wants them gone. Take your own advise Bobby SHUT UP

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- Concernd4USA
  Posted on February 7, 2013 at 11:02am
  I replied here to add that I am a conservative Christian against abortion, and would love to see our country move back to the right. But we can’t move them in one sweep of the hand we have to inch back to sanity.
  
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YOURSENSEI
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:50am
This is what you must know:

No White House or SCOTUS appointments for the Republicans until 2024. How great is that?

It is so.

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Small World
Posted on February 7, 2013 at 10:49am
We can’t let the media pick for us again. I’m voting for person not party. Judge Napolitano could really be the Savior for America.Also like Rand Paul.

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