Teabaggers turn on Marco Rubio over immigration

[marmar]

About two dozen constituents of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) gathered on Wednesday to voice their discontent with his support for immigration reform, accusing him of selling out his tea party supporters.

"He was the tea party darling. Until he went to D.C. and played us," Christine Timmon, a tea party supporter, told local NBC affiliate WPTV outside the St. Lucie County Lincoln Day Dinner, a Republican fundraising event Rubio was attending.

Rubio and seven other senators in the bipartisan "gang of eight" introduced legislation last month that would ramp up border security and employer enforcement, but also provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and streamline the legal immigration process. Although a majority of Americans supports the basic elements of that plan, many Republicans don't, and Rubio has spent significant time over the past several months trying to assure conservatives the bill doesn't amount to "amnesty."

He and other senators are back in their home states this week during a congressional recess, but Rubio is continuing his attempt to reassure conservatives from there. Rubio said in an interview with Politico that he will not support the inclusion of Democratic-supported LGBT benefits in the immigration bill, and even told conservative radio host Mike Gallagher this week that he doesn't think the "gang of eight" legislation as written can pass the Republican-led House. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/02/marco-rubio-protest-immigration_n_3200480.html

[graham4anything]

1. Good. Better for Presidents Obama and Clinton.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Awwww. Poor Senator Rubio..............NOT.

[n2doc]

3. Purity!

I suggest the T-baggers go all out and purge the republican party of all who don't support every one of their positions. No matter how contradictory they might be. It is the only way!

[pampango]

4. Tea partiers could not care less about 'reaching out to Hispanics' who are a "them" not an "us" in

the eyes of the far-right. Republican big wigs seem to want to find a way to score a few points with Hispanics (in their own conservative simple-minded way) but the base always reminds them that reaching out to any group is not part of their philosophy. Tea partiers want to be protected from (rather than learning to live with) Hispanics (and other minorities), gays, liberals and anyone else who is too 'different'.