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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-12-09 08:37 AM
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Florida's hard core GOPers take aim at Charlie Crist's Senate run
will be facing a vigorous fight from former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, a young, outspoken Hispanic conservative who is capturing the attention of activists in Florida and across the country.

Rubio began telegraphing his attacks against Crist even before the governor’s formal announcement. In an interview with POLITICO, he singled out Crist for abandoning conservative principles and compared the governor to moderate Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Republican-turned-Democrat Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

“If we’re offering the same thing as the Democrats, but with different packaging, what’s the point in having a Republican Party?” Rubio said.“I’m going to offer Floridians a clear, consistent, authentic small-government choice in the primary.”

Indeed, Rubio expects the primary to receive national attention as a referendum between the party’s moderate and conservative wings. He just received a glowing profile in the Weekly Standard, which called him the “perfect recruit for statewide office.”
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Another purge in progress...
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lib2DaBone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-12-09 09:12 AM
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1. Funny.. all the Republican Scumbags cuing up.....
...fighting over who will get to eat the remaining roadkill.

Crist just raised $2 Billion in new taxes and license fees. Not one mention of pay cuts for politicians or cutting out fancy luncheons or weekend retreats at the Ritz Carlton.

Then the media has the BALLS to blame Democrats as the "tax-and-spend" party? (And they (the media) get away with it every time) Not a word in protest is whispered anywhere.

I'm sorry.. people in Florida have their heads so far up their behinds... they will never see daylight again ..let alone an economic recovery.
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-12-09 09:13 AM
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2. Crist is too left wing for them.
Let me say that again, Crist is too left wing for them. :rofl:
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