{"id":88664,"date":"2016-02-28T11:55:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88664"},"modified":"2016-02-28T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T19:55:19","slug":"republican-establishments-open-borders-lifeboat-sinking-with-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=88664","title":{"rendered":"Republican Establishment\u2019s Open Borders Lifeboat Sinking with Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Tancredo writes<\/a>: The establishment media won\u2019t tell you this Tuesday, but the Republican Party civil war is over and the establishment lost. Both of the remaining front-runners, Trump and Cruz, are outsiders, and the insider, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79%
\n is history.<\/p>\n

Meagan Kelly, call your agent. Your lame horse cannot finish the race.<\/p>\n

When Jeb Bush left the presidential race last week after two humiliating out-of-the-running finishes in New Hampshire and South Carolina, the open borders wing of the Republican Party establishment all ran to the Rubio lifeboat. In their haste, they did not notice the Rubio lifeboat \u2014 so sad!\u2013had gaping holes in it.<\/p>\n

What the establishment media will not tell you after the Rubio campaign follows Bush, Kasich, Christie, and ten others into the history books is that all of them had one thing in common: none of them offered a bold or convincing program for ending our nation\u2019s catastrophic 30-year experiment with open borders. Only Trump and Cruz have done that, and only they have survived the \u201cepidemic of voter anger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Have you noticed how quickly the media rallied around \u201cvoter anger\u201d as the explanation for the anti-establishment mood of the 2016 electorate? The genius of this label is that it allows the pundits from answering the obvious question\u2014why are people so angry? It suggests that voters rejecting establishment candidates are behaving like children throwing a temper tantrum.<\/p>\n

No. That\u2019s not what is happening. Sovereign citizens are waking up and saying, \u201cEnough, already!\u201d<\/p>\n

But Marco Rubio didn\u2019t get that memo or didn\u2019t read it. Rubio has been too busy concocting still one more smokescreen defense of his 2013 co-authorship and steadfast support of the infamous \u201cGang of Eight\u201d Senate amnesty plan. In fact, even today, three years later, he has not yet fully repudiated it.<\/p>\n

Rubio\u2019s latest explanation of why that 2013 amnesty bill failed, offered in the debate before the South Carolina primary, is that after it passed the Senate, \u201cthe House refused to take it up.\u201d Duh! The Gang of Eight bill passed the Senate with a majority of Republican senators voting AGAINST the bill \u2013 an embarrassing fact hardly reported by the media. It was NEVER a Republican immigration reform plan; it was a Democrat open borders plan that Rubio was suckered into supporting.<\/p>\n

Facing a broad grassroots rebellion over the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, the Republican leadership in the House was smart enough to bury the dead skunk in the back yard. They began talking about immigration reform as a series of \u201csmall bills,\u201d but certain Democrat rejection in the Senate blocked meaningful action.<\/p>\n

Yet, Rubio\u2019s stupid support of the Democrats\u2019 Gang of Eight bill had been tattooed on his forehead, and he never had the tattoo removed. In fact, Rubio, like other Republican establishment candidates, still clings to its main, devious feature\u2014amnesty now, enforcement later.<\/p>\n

And THAT, my friends, is the main reason Republican voters are angry\u2014not just at Rubio but at all establishment candidates. Two years after Republicans won control of both houses of Congress, they have yet to send Obama a Republican plan for securing the borders and have instead continued to fund the existing open borders status quo. And that is why the two \u201clast man standing\u201d contenders are two outspoken critics of open borders, not the establishment apologists for national suicide.<\/p>\n

After Bush\u2019s crash and burn, Rubio became the establishment\u2019s lifeboat to survive the populist tsunami. Ooops. It\u2019s now time for Plan B \u2013 or actually, it is now \u201cPlan X.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plan X calls for co-opting Donald Trump: the establishment hopes he can become a Trojan Horse. Once inside the gates, he can reveal himself as the \u201cdeal-maker\u201d who can \u201cwork across the aisle\u201d to \u201cget things done.\u201d In their fanciful fantasy, now being crafted by turnaround exerts, Trump can engage in symbolic acts to please the troops while expanding legal immigration, legal guest worker programs, and foreign aid to Mexico.<\/p>\n

The really good news is, Republican voters now have a real choice between two \u201coutsiders.\u201d In the next four months they will decide which one is the best hope for reversing the course of a ship of state heading toward bankruptcy and cultural suicide. Marco Rubio will not be one of those two candidates.<\/p>\n

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97%
\n is hated by the Washington establishment of both parties because he actually has a record to prove his conservative principles. He fought on the Senate floor for conservative principles, and they hate him for that\u2013 for repeal of Obamacare, for secure borders, for defunding Obama\u2019s unconstitutional executive orders.<\/p>\n

The other candidate riding the \u201ctsunami of populist anger\u201d is, we all know, Donald Trump. Both candidates have tapped into the public anger, but they did not create it\u2013 the establishment did by its foolish policies.<\/p>\n

Whatever the outcome of this contest, Americans are guaranteed of having a clear choice in November. That is new, and that is progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Tancredo writes: The establishment media won\u2019t tell you this Tuesday, but the Republican Party civil war is over and the establishment lost. Both of the remaining front-runners, Trump and Cruz, are outsiders, and the insider, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88673,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88664\/revisions\/88673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}