Jewish Republicans I know love Marco Rubio. Dennis Prager says he’s the most electable Republican candidate for president.
Bruce Bolton tweets: “John Edwards comparison is three-fer 1. Pretty boy light weight, 2. scandal floating under surface, 3. and he lost, unlike Obama.”
Steve Sailer writes: …Rubio has been pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of billionaire Miami auto dealer Norman Braman. This almost inevitably turned Rubio into the cabana boy for the Dade County Likud Party Billionaire Boosters Club. From the Jewish Telegraph Agency:
Marco Rubio’s big Jewish backer and 7 other things to know about him
By Uriel Heilman October 29, 2015 7:15pm
NEW YORK (JTA) – After Marco Rubio’s strong performance in Wednesday night’s Republican primary debate, many Americans are taking a second look at the U.S. senator from Florida. Here are a few things American Jews might want to know about him.
1. Rubio had humble beginnings — and rose quickly
The junior senator was born in Miami in 1971 to Cuban parents who moved to the United States in 1956 and later found work in bartending and housekeeping. After high school, Rubio paid for his first year of college with a football scholarship and then took out student loans. Rubio later repaid $100,000 in student debt out of the $800,000 advance he received for his 2012 book, “An American Son.” (He also sprung for a fishing boat.) While studying law at the University of Miami in the mid-1990s, Rubio interned for Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R.-Fla., the first Cuban American elected to Congress and a staunch supporter of Israel. Rubio won election in 2000 to the state legislature, the Florida House of Representatives, and became its youngest-ever speaker in 2005. In 2010, Rubio was elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Florida’s governor, Charlie Crist.
Billionaire auto dealership magnate Norman Braman, a past president of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, isn’t just the single-largest backer of Rubio’s presidential campaign. Braman also helped finance the young senator’s legislative agenda, employed Rubio as a lawyer, hired Rubio’s wife (a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader) as a philanthropic adviser, helped fund Rubio’s position as a college instructor and assisted Rubio with his personal finances. In 2010, Braman and Rubio went to Israel together shortly after Rubio’s election to the U.S. Senate.
“Gee, Mr. Braman, I never thought about Israel like that before!”
A Rubio-Sanders race might be interesting in that Sanders is ethnically well-positioned as an old Jew from Brooklyn who was a kibbutznik for awhile in the 1960s to call out Rubio’s neocon extremism.
COMMENTS:
* By dropping the Os, he could be Marc Rubi, the Flaming Kid. That would endear him to two excitable minorities with lots of money to donate.
* Rubio hasn’t done anything or earned anything in his life that hasn’t come out of Braman’s pockets.
* The father of the EU was a rich aristocratic mongrel (Austrian-Japanese) married to a jewess, he wrote a book in the 1920s called ‘Practical Idealism’ where he imagined a future mongrelized Europe ruled by a Jewish elite.
* As Steve has pointed out before, when discussed in publications intended for the private consumption of Jews, the information contained in this article is considered interesting and important. If it were published in the New York Times, there would be an outcry about anti-semitism.
* Since Bush flamed out, Rubio has found a new and even richer sugar-daddy – the hedge-fund manager, sovereign-debt-collector, and gay-rights champion Paul Singer.
Rubio is the Republican Party’s rent-boy.
* The puppeteering of American politicians by wealthy Jews is progress!
And don’t you forget it!
And don’t you talk about it either!
* In opening for introducing Donald Trump tonight in New Hampshire, Ann Coulter took a lavender swipe at Lindsey Graham, and another at Marco Rubio, the latter with a carom at the Current Occupant.
* Three Points:
-A guy who claims to know an ‘insider’ called the Iowa results 4 days ago with uncanny accuracy. He says Trump will win New Hampshire, but ultimately, Rubio will win the nomination – as he is more ‘pliable’.
–Bookmakers have 3:1 odds of Hillary beating Rubio for the presidency.
So there you have it folks.
* Politico came out with an article last week about how easy it is to rig elections in the US.
The takeaway is that it is really easy. Usually no one observes the actual counting of the ballots, which are often done anyway by computer programs run by companies that often are backing candidates competing in the same elections (eg Microsoft and Rubio). Sometimes these companies are foreign owned. It amazes me that no one seems to care much about this.
The article didn’t mention that unlike in other countries, where civil servants who are supposed to be neutral oversee the elections, elections in the US are run by boards composed of local Democratic and Republican hacks.
* There is some irony that the Jew in the race is the least pro Israel. And he is still very pro-Israel.
* Rubio’s first book that he received the $800,000 advance for, and which has sold a staggering 37,000 copies, was published by Sentinel. Looks like a donation to me though I am not in publishing.
As the web site says, “Meet Sentinel.”
http://www.penguin.com/meet/publishers/sentinel/
Adrian Zackheim
Founder, President, and Publisher
Will Weisser
Niki Papadopoulos
Natalie Horbachevsky
Nope, no pattern there.
* [Tim] Carney is pretty sharp. He’s highlighting this for a good reason.
He’s been begging the Rs to go populist for a while: take an anti-crony capitalism stance after the 2008 crash…
He was featured as a prominent anti-war “conservative” more than a decade ago.
His insights have tracked Sailer-type insights, though Carney is more inside baseball with his ExIm bank crusade and beltway libertarianism…
* “Can you imagine how much better Trump would’ve done with competent GOTV effort?”
GOP turnout was 50% over the highest ever. If Trump hadn’t done a good job of getting out the vote, he’d have been running neck and neck with Ben Carson.
Cruz had a brilliant ground game. Cruz has run an excellent campaign, given his unappealing character. Rubio didnt’ turn voters; a lot of them came out specifically to vote for him because they hated Trump.
* Then that’s a regional prejudice thing. Let’s call it what it is. The same thing that worked to Cruz’s advantage will hurt him in NY; NJ; New England perhaps the Upper Midwestern states and possibly in CA; OR; WA.
Again, Trump may need to win the Northeast, the Pacific states, (except for Carly, no candidate hails from the Pacific so that region’s wide open), and carry the Upper Midwest.
Like in the November election, the Upper Midwest with its precious 60plus electoral votes, may just hold the balance for Trump to get the nomination.
If Cruz wants to go there with his “NY values” smear, Trump can match him in the Upper Midwest and Northeast with “You really want a dumb hick in the White House? Seriously? Is he even from America?”
Cruz started it. Let Trump finish it.
But yep, this year the CA/Pacific along with Upper Midwest states may just hold the cards for Trump. Be interested to know when CA/WA/OR/Pacific region hosts their primaries this yr.
* Trump is financing his own campaign and is trying to do it on the cheap. He didn’t want to spend the money needed to establish a ground game.
* For someone who is supposedly very good at “winning,” he certainly did not show much. He had virtually no “ground game” in Iowa, and essentially ran a celebrity campaign – all free (earned) media and giant rallies, but no serious organization or grassroots/ground-pounding hard work. He ended up fitting the NYC stereotype in the Midwest – all talk, no work.
And Cruz showed that he can organize. It’s not just that his locked up the “evangelicals” and turned them out. He had a highly organized and efficient team on the ground with excellent data analytics. And on top of all that, he WORKED. He and his wife personally called people who needed to be persuaded back to his cause. He showed that he wanted to win, could win, and did win. Cruz’s magna cum laude and editor of law review weren’t just affirmative action honorifics. He is definitely brains + hard work.
In Iowa, at least, Cruz showed that he could run the trains on time better than the supposed businessman with “real world” enterprise experience. New Hampshire will be a tougher slog for Cruz, for sure, but it will be VERY interesting how well his national organization performs versus Trump’s yet-to-materialize infrastructure.
As I mentioned here before, politics is a team endeavor. Candidates are merely the vessels through which the aspirations of others are channeled. I have yet to see any evidence that Trump gets this. He still seems to be stuck in the celebrity mode, not serious candidate mode, as his squabbles with a politically insignificant journalist immediately before the vote demonstrated. Calling someone else’s wife a “bimbo” is never a good look for anyone let alone someone running for the land’s highest elected office.
