Rubio’s ugliest moment: The mean-spirited ultimatum that showed the 2016 contender’s true colors

[highplainsdem]

From Salon's Luke Brinker this morning:

http://www.salon.com/2015/04/13/marco_rubios_ugliest_moment_the_mean_spirited_ultimatum_that_showed_the_2016_contenders_true_colors/

On June 11, 2013, the Russian parliament unanimously passed legislation prohibiting the dissemination of so-called gay propaganda, by which the Kremlin’s retrograde conservatives meant such heresies as the notions that gay and straight relationships are equally valuable, or that gay people enjoy any rights that the state is bound to respect. Signed into law by President Vladimir Putin later that month, the law stoked anti-gay vigilantism, with advocates reporting a spike in anti-LGBT harassment following the measure’s passage; harrowing videos of gay bashings captured the horrific climate of homophobia that both fostered the law and was exacerbated by it. Amid mounting anti-gay atrocities, record numbers of LGBT Russians sought to flee the country.

The same day that the Russian parliament declared war on gay citizens, Sen. Marco Rubio issued a headline-grabbing proclamation: The Florida Republican said he would jettison the immigration reform legislation he’d spent months helping craft if it included an amendment from Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., allowing gay Americans to sponsor their foreign spouses for permanent residency — a right long afforded to heterosexual citizens. Leahy had introduced the amendment once, only to withdraw it amid political pressure, before reintroducing it once again on June 11.

But Rubio, who is slated to announce his 2016 presidential bid this evening, would have none of it.

“If this bill has in it something that gives gay couples immigration rights and so forth, it kills the bill,” Rubio told Fox News personality Andrea Tantaros on her radio show. “I’m gone, I’m off it, and I’ve said that repeatedly. And I don’t think that’s going to happen, and it shouldn’t happen. This is already a difficult enough issue as it is.”

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Contrast that disgusting puke with the Hillary campaign launch video...my god..how could anyone

NOT work their asses off to elect Hillary vs allowing a pig like Rubio in the WH

[highplainsdem]

6. +1,000

[immoderate]

2. Rubio is a really stupid man.

I think the campaign will highlight that.

--imm

[staggerleem]

8. Apparently, if you're a Republican candidate ...

... stupidity is not merely an asset - it's a REQUIREMENT!

This is the REAL legacy of our 8 years of Dubya. Ignorance has become a virtue.

[erronis]

10. Sort of like everyone moving to the right; only everybody trying to out-dumb dubya

Pretty soon all those little elephants will be boxed into a small square defined by righteousness and stupidity.

Let's just hope the dems/progressives don't try to join them there.

[Atman]

3. Of course, he was responding to Andrea Tantaros and her vile audience.

He knew not a single progressive voter would be listening. He was speaking directly to the hate-filled GOP-Bagger base. I've little doubt he'd change his tune once/if his nomination was secured. He is not a very trustworthy man, even as politicians go.

[samsingh]

4. rubio is a nasty pos and sob

[DefenseLawyer]

5. Just one more ambitious idiot, lining his pockets. n/t

[George II]

7. Rubio doesn't have an iota of a chance for the nomination.

[lumberjack_jeff]

9. Importing cheap labor is apparently only okay if they are straight. n/t

[mythology]

11. Give him time

He'll do/say worse

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Bigot.