Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio is being talked about quite a bit as a likely presidential candidate for 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The word among many Republicans is that Rubio\u2019s is among the faces of the new wave, the next generation, of genuinely \u201cconservative\u201d politicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As is all too typically the case nowadays, the word is a lie.<\/p>\n
Presumably, a conservative in contemporary American politics is an advocate of \u201climited government.\u201d\u00a0 A \u201climited government,\u201d in turn, is a federalized <\/em>or constitutional <\/em>government, a government within which the vast majority of rights belong to the states. <\/em>A proponent of \u201climited government,\u201d that is, does whatever he can do to reduce the size and scope of the national government.<\/p>\n Thus far, Rubio doesn\u2019t come close to satisfying this description.<\/p>\n Arizona is a state that has suffered to no end from illegal immigration, a problem visited upon it by the federal government\u2019s refusal to enforce its own immigration laws.\u00a0 When the ravages of immigration reached crisis proportions, Arizonans passed\u00a0a\u00a0bill\u00a0empowering the state\u2019s law enforcement agents to remedy the federal government\u2019s dereliction of duty by allowing officers to ask identification of those who they suspected of residing within the state illegally.<\/p>\n Though popular with the overwhelming majority of Arizonans, Rubio opposed it. In fact, he likened Arizona to a \u201cpolice state.”<\/p>\n Rubio argued for permitting illegal immigrants the opportunity to pursue a college degree.\u00a0 He also contended that they should be able to pay \u201cin-state tuition\u201d rates for it.<\/p>\n But it gets worse.<\/p>\n Not only has Rubio gone on record as favoring the DREAM Act.\u00a0 He favors the same \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform\u201d for which establishment Republicans have been calling for years\u2014i.e. amnesty by another name.\u00a0 Of course, not unlike anyone else who favors amnesty, he will never call it for what it is.\u00a0 But any \u201creform\u201d that grants citizenship to millions upon millions of people who entered our country illegally is <\/em>indeed amnesty.<\/p>\n Rubio once called upon those within \u201cthe conservative movement\u201d to \u201cadmit that there are those among us who have used rhetoric that is harsh and intolerable\u201d and \u201cinexcusable.\u201d\u00a0 Presumably, he is speaking of those who oppose amnesty\u2014regardless of what name the Rubios of the world choose to affix to it. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Rubio is typical of Republicans in supporting the Patriot Act, with its \u201croving\u201d wiretaps, and he endorses as well the characteristically Republican idea that \u201cradical Islam\u201d is the largest threat that America faces.\u00a0 Rubio believes that America\u2019s engagement abroad needs to broaden, <\/em>and he thinks that only if America is the most powerful nation on Earth can it also be the safest nation on Earth.<\/p>\n While delivering a speech at the Brookings Institution last April, Rubio was clear.\u00a0 For those \u201cvoices in my own party\u201d who caution America to \u201cheed the words of John Quincy Adams not to go \u2018abroad, in search of monsters to destroy,\u2019\u201d Rubio has no sympathy.\u00a0 With such a foreign policy, he couldn\u2019t disagree more strongly, for \u201call around us we see the face of America\u2019s influence in the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The question needs to be asked: How is Rubio any different from John McCain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, or any other establishment Republican?\u00a0 How is Rubio a real \u201cconservative\u201d while, say, McCain and Romney are \u201cmoderates?\u201d\u00a0 For that matter, how is Rubio all that different from Barack Obama and many establishment Democrats who favor Big Government on these and other issues?<\/p>\n From what we have to go on thus far, it seems painfully obvious that Rubio is no conservative; he is a neoconservative. <\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio is being talked about quite a bit as a likely presidential candidate for 2016.\u00a0 The word among many Republicans is that Rubio\u2019s is among the faces of the new wave, the next generation, of genuinely \u201cconservative\u201d politicians.\u00a0 As is all too typically the case nowadays, the word is a lie.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n