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May 24, 2012
Marco Rubio's Ego-fueled Book Tour Runs Through Swing States
Is there such a thing as reading too much into the schedule of a book tour? Maybe, maybe not, but the Associated Press just got a hold of Marco Rubio's touring schedule to promote his upcoming memoir, An American Son, and, well, what do you know, it hits up a whole lot of battle ground states. Appar ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Mitt Romney Not Seriously Interested in Marco Rubio as Running Mate, Politico Says
Speculation that Marco Rubio could be the GOP's 2012 vice presidential nominee dates back to pretty much his first day in office as senator, and even Mitt Romney has mentioned Rubio as a possible candidate. Politico, however, reports that Senator Rubio is not being seriously considered as a potentia ... More >>
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April 30, 2012
Marco Rubio Fined $8000 by FEC, Which No One Would Care About if There Wasn't VP Buzz
Senator Marco Rubio can say he does not want to be Mitt Romney's running mate a million times, but that won't stop the media from buzzing about the possibility. Rubio could do cartwheels down the Senate floor before singing "I Don't Wanna Be VP" to the tune of Aerosmith's "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Marco Rubio's Grandpa Was Nearly Deported, Book Reveals, Complicating Immigration Policy
As if Marco Rubio's attempts to moderate the GOP's immigration stance weren't difficult enough: A Washington Post reporter has released part of a biography revealing that Rubio's grandfather ignored deportation orders from a Miami immigration court -- a detail that, combined with Rubio's own call fo ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
Marco Rubio Receives "Credible" Threats, Police Watch Miami House and D.C. Office
Marco Rubio at the moment is trapped in that strange limbo -- let's call it the Biden Zone -- where half of America assumes he's going to be a vice presidential nominee but nothing is official yet. That means despite daily national press and a starring role this week sharing a stage with the GOP's n ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
Poll: Marco Rubio Is Second Most Popular Pick Among Potential Romney Running Mates
Two separate polls now have shown that Florida's junior senator, Marco Rubio, wouldn't give Mitt Romney much help in his home state against President Barack Obama in November, but that hasn't stopped voters in the rest of the nation from thinking he'd be a pretty decent Republican running mate. He c ... More >>
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April 3, 2012
Marco Rubio Hates Disco Music, Says Civil Rights Movement Was Part of "A Scary Time"
Marco Rubio has some interesting taste in music. He loves Nicki Minaj, but apparently hates disco. He attacked the dance genre at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Pinellas, Florida, over the weekend and hurled an insult to the Bee Gees in a bizarre, fear-mongering speech filled with spooky stories, bad jokes ... More >>
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April 2, 2012
Ann Coulter Disses Marco Rubio During VP Talk
Well, at least one prominent Republican doesn't want Marco Rubio running as the party's VP candidate. Always polarizing pundit Ann Coulter was on ABC's "This Week" yesterday, and she said that picking the exciting but still unproven Rubio would be a "mistake."
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March 29, 2012
Marco Rubio Endorses Mitt Romney in Possible First Step Toward VP Bid
Marco Rubio finally stepped off the sidelines of the GOP primary last night, backing Mitt Romney for president in an interview on Fox News. While the endorsement isn't all that surprising, Rubio's timing sparks a key question: Is he backing Romney because it's clear Mitt will hold off the competi ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Tween Marco Rubio Was a Mormon, But Does Anyone Really Care?
Buzzfeed, the site about cute cats and "penis size math" that apparently has a political habit on the side, is out with a new shocker about Florida Senator Marco Rubio that, according to journalist McKay Coppins, could be "potentially damaging" and complicating to Rubio's political future. Well, ... More >>
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February 20, 2012
Marco Rubio Tops Vice Presidential Poll
Marco Rubio has certainly been mentioned several times by Republican candidates as a possible running mate, and it appears that GOP voters agree. Fairleigh Dickinson University released the findings of a poll today in which they asked 799 registered Republicans across the country who they'd like to ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski Not Happy with Obama's Contraception Compromise
Caving to demands voiced by Senator Marco Rubio, Catholic leaders and others, President Obama today announced a compromise on a portion of his health care reform laws that would have required all employers to offer female employees free birth control even if the employer had religious objections. ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Marco Rubio Bitches About Obama and Senate Colleagues at CPAC
Last year, while delivering the keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference Florida Senator Marco Rubio talked about grand ideas. This year he was in total Mean Girls mode while speaking at the Conference this morning, and made digs at his veteran colleagues in the Senate, lib ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Marco Rubio Sticks Up for Romney, Scolds Gingrich
Marco Rubio is sticking to his promise to stay officially neutral in the GOP primary, but earlier this week Newt Gingrich started running around the state and basically inferring that he was the Marco Rubio to Mitt Romney's Charlie Crist. At least when he wasn't busy calling Romney "anit-immigran ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Marco Rubio Drops His Support of Online Piracy Bill on Day of Wikipedia Blackout
Maybe Marco Rubio is addicted to late-night Wikipedia binges. You know, the type where you go to look up the director of whatever movie you're absentmindedly watching on cable and then somehow, an hour later, end up reading about the indigenous bird species of Alabama. Because this morning, the R ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Hillary Clinton is Pretty Much the Most Popular Politician in Florida
Maybe it's because as secretary of state, she's not directly involved in DC's tense fight over economic policy. Maybe it's because people have a nostalgia for her husband's terms as president where our biggest national issue was a blowjob. Maybe Hillary Clinton is just a badass. Whatever the case ... More >>
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October 28, 2011
Marco Rubio Targeted by Democratic PAC Over Family Story Flip-Flop VIDEO
A week ago, the Washington Post slammed Florida's freshman Sen. Marco Rubio for "embellishing" his family story by claiming his parents arrived in Miami after Fidel Castro took over Cuba when, in fact, they arrived three years earlier.Well, it didn't take Democrats very long to recognize the oppo ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Marco Rubio Caught Lying About His Family Story by Birthers, National Media
American politics is a fickle bitch. One day you're Marco Rubio, Tea Party pretty boy and front-runner for the Republican vice presidential nomination. The next day, you're just an asshole who distorted his family history to play on the sympathy of constituents, including fellow Cuban-Americ ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Marco Rubio Calls Washington Post's Allegations "Outrageous" and an "Insult"
The fallout from this morning's take down of Marco Rubio's supposed family story in the Washington Post has been fierce and fast. First, The Miami Herald came to Rubio's defense and challenged some of the Post's assertions. Now Rubio has penned his own editorial for Politico and calls the story a ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Marco Rubio has Higher Disapproval Ratings than Bill Nelson
Who's Florida's political golden boy? Well, based on all the fawning press and attention he's received, you might believe it's our first-time Republican Senator Marco Rubio. Well, apparently the honeymoon is coming to end. Now more Floridians disapprove of the way Rubio is handling his job than ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
Republican Univision Debate: Fear, Not Rubio, the Driving Factor
Five Republican candidates -- iincluding Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman and Rick Perry -- have pulled out of a Univision debate in January. Why? Allegedly it is because of a comment the head of the blockbuster Spanish language channel's made to Florida Sen Marco Rubio's people attempting to blackmail him ... More >>
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September 22, 2011
Marco Rubio Under Fire From Birthers Who Don't Believe He's a "Natural Born Citizen"
Believe it or not, the right wing is targeting Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a rumored vice presidential contender. They argue he is ineligible for the job because his Cuban parents weren't U.S. citizens when he was born in Miami in 1971.It is the same argument of twisted logic and handpic ... More >>
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September 9, 2011
Marco Rubio Says Obama's Jobs Plan Won't Work, Moody's Top Economist Says It Will
Yesterday, President Obama outline a proposed $447 billion jobs bill that would cut payroll taxes, increase spending on infrastructure and public works programs, and extend unemployment benefits.Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, with lightning-fast speed, released a statement and video response last nigh ... More >>
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September 6, 2011
Ed Schultz Rips Marco Rubio for Insulting America
So, Marco Rubio is going around calling America "weakened." He blames it on Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. Well, MSNBC host Ed Schultz takes exception to the claim, and ripped Rubio in a 16-minute segment aired last Friday."Rubio is stupid, he doesn't even know he's offensive," says Schu ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Allen West Is Not on a "Marco Rubio Level"; Sorry, Club for Growth
Republican insiders aren't exactly thrilled with the crop of candidates who have entered the race for the GOP nomination to take on incumbent Sen. Bill Nelson. Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, a powerful and influential fiscally conservative 527 group that endorsed Marco Rubio in ... More >>
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August 1, 2011
Marco Rubio Refuses to Compromise, Will Vote "No" on Debt Ceiling
Let's put it in perspective. The left is pretty much aghast today that President Obama has rolled over for a compromise in the debt ceiling debate that gives in to a staggering number of Republican demands. Paul Krugman is curled up in a ball somewhere whimpering about "economic disaster." Daily ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Latino Republican Group Says Marco Rubio is Unfriendly to Latinos
Florida senator Marco Rubio is supposed to be the Republican party's great Latino hope, but an upstart Latino Republican group, Somos Republicans, has just dubbed Rubio "unfriendly to Latinos." The group claims that because of Rubio's Cuban-American "privilege" he fails to appreciate the importan ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Marco Rubio tricked the Tea Party into thinking he was part of the clan
Florida senator Marco Rubio is supposed to be the Republican party's great Latino hope, but an upstart Latino Republican group, Somos Republicans, has just dubbed Rubio "unfriendly to Latinos." The group claims that because of Rubio's Cuban-American "privilege" he fails to appreciate the importan ... More >>
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June 7, 2011
Marco Rubio Tricked The Tea Party
Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke reassesses Sen. Marco Rubio's Tea Party credentials.I need to thank Marco Rubio. He really stuck it to the Tea Party. He ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
Miami-Dade May Name Street "Marco Rubio Way"
Senator Marco Rubio has only been in office for a few months, but Miami-Dade County may soon name a street in his honor. Commissioner Rebecca Sosa is sponsoring a resolution that would rename a stretch of Southwest 15th Street between 57th Avenue and 67th Avenue as "Marco Rubio Way."
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May 25, 2011
Marco Rubio Doesn't Understand How Grass Works
via Wikimedia Commons user MoserB A federal agency is very against one of the things in this picture.Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson have taken a stand -- keep planting grass for people to mow.The National Hispanic Landscape Alliance -- which held its first conference in March ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Marco Rubio and Rick Scott Praise Obama on Bin Laden Mission
Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, the two most high-profile Republicans in the state, both got elected on the backs of campaigns that never skimped on criticizing Barack Obama, but the two have nothing but praise for the president after he announced the death of Osama bin Laden.
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May 2, 2011
Marco Rubio Promises He Won't Be GOP VP Candidate in 2012
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has said time and time again he won't run for president in 2012, and while he hadn't exactly been stoking the flames, he had left the door just a crack open that he'd perhaps consider running for vice president. Well, yesterday he shut that door, announcing on Meet th ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Marco Rubio Really Admires Dead Racist Jesse Helms
Asked to name a senator he'd like to pattern his own career after, Marco Rubio told the National Review that he really admires Jesse Helms. Yes, Helms, the late North Carolina Republican senator with notorious and well-documented racist and homophobic views. He once called the landmark Civil Righ ... More >>
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March 30, 2011
Marco Rubio Loves Nicki Minaj
Marco Rubio wishes he could have this moment for life. He's a young, superstar senator the likes of wish D.C. hasn't quite seen, diverging politics aside, since President Obama. ABC's Nightline scored what they call "the first national television interview" with Rubio since taking office, and got ... More >>
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February 11, 2011
Marco Rubio Bashes Barack Obama in CPAC Video Address
When Sen. Marco Rubio announced he'd be sitting out the Conservative Political Action Conference this year, it gave the impression that he was trying to distance himself, for now at least, from certain elements of the right wing. Well, Rubio actually did make an appearance at CPAC today, though t ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Marco Rubio Skips CPAC: Is He Purposefully Shunning the Conservative Movement?
Rubio has real estate right next to Glenn Beck on this year's CPAC bannerLast year Marco Rubio delivered the keynote speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Headlining perhaps one of the most important centralized Conservative events in the country officially made Rubio a right wi ... More >>
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January 24, 2011
Marco Rubio Doesn't Really Want to Join the Senate's Tea Party Caucus
Last year, Marco Rubio ended up on the cover of The New York Times magazine with the headline "The First Senator from the Tea Party?" Well, there's no question anymore about whether or not he's a Senator, but now that he is, he's not so sure he wants to join the actual Tea Party caucus. It's not ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Marco Rubio Doesn't Want to Be VP; Jeb Bush Hints at His Own 2016 Run
In today's round up of the federal executive branch aspirations of Florida Republicans: Marco Rubio says he wouldn't accept an offer to be the GOP's vice presidential candidate in 2012. Meanwhile, his mentor Jeb Bush yet again denied he'd mount a presidential bid in 2012, but leaves the door ... More >>
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January 7, 2011
Marco Rubio, Frederica Wilson Make List of Congressional Hotties
Marco Rubio Riptide, 4-eva!It's widely accepted that, for a politician at least, newly minted Florida senator Marco Rubio is kind of a hottie. I mean, he doesn't quite have that Aaron Schock six-pack, but no one would be embarrassed& to be caught up in a D.C. sex scandal with him. So it's n ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Marco Rubio Rated Best Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Based on Communication Skills
There's already at least one online moment hoping to draft Marco Rubio to run for President in 2012. Those supporters might not be completely insane. An analysis by former ABC News journalist and media professional Brad Phillips rates Rubio the best communicator of all potential Republican ca ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
Marco Rubio's High School Girlfriend Dishes on His "Acne Ridden" and "Geeky Charm"
Marco Rubio may now be DC's newest studly senator, but back when he was a freshman at Miami Senior High School he was a "acne ridden boy with braces and knobby knees" who turned his stalking-like courting habits in to a relationship with a nice young girl. Well, Rubio's ex-sweetheart is dishing on t ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Marco Rubio Loves Gangsta Rap, David Guetta's 'Sexy Bitch,' Fawning Feature Reports
We know you've been wondering: How exactly did Marco Rubio stir the conservative fire in his belly before jumping onstage during the campaign? Reading George Will? Watching O'Reilly grill some hapless liberals?Nope: Straight-up gangsta rap. Rubio liked to crank Tupac and NWA before his speeches, ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
Arianna Huffington Did Not Say Marco Rubio Looked Like "A Central American Dictator"
Depending on your point of view Marco Rubio looks like a lot of things: a red blooded American hunk set to save the county, an overgrown 12-year-old with a Justin Bieber mop haircut, or, apparently, a Central American dictator. Liberal web empress Arianna Huffington stands accused of throwing the ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Two Florida Firemen Resign Over Tea-bagging (The Real Deal, Not the Marco Rubio Kind)
photo by Tomasz Sienicki via Wikimedia CommonsIn a story sure to outrage the Marco Rubio camp on the eve of the midterms, two Florida firefighters have resigned after an investigation into their tea-bagging while on duty. What kind of upside-down nation are we living in where two public servants ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
The Marco Rubio for President Campaign Might as Well Begin Tomorrow
Let's not be cynical. We don't know who is going to win the Florida senate race (so please go out and vote), but polls indicate Marco Rubio is the favorite. If he does emerge victorious tonight, then it's only a matter of time until some speculation that he may run for President in 2012 at least ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Dispatch From the Biltmore: The Night Marco Rubio's Presidential Campaign Began
photo by Tim ElfrinkRubio in 2012: It started tonight.Marco Rubio is running for president in 2012. It's not official, of course, and maybe even Rubio himself hasn't decided whether to seek the highest office in the land. But at the raucus party tonight at the Biltmore, it sure seemed like Rubio' ... More >>
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October 28, 2010
Marco Rubio Appears on Cover of Time With Republicans Who Make Him Seem Downright Normal
Why, yes, that is Marco Rubio peering at you from the latest cover of Time magazine. Unlike yesterday's tea bagger beefcake calendar, the cover is for real. Rubio takes one of four special-edition covers that feature some of the most talked-about Republican candidates from across the country, and ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
Marco Rubio: Naked Calendar Beefcake
It was just last week when noted website Gay Patriot ("the internet home for the American gay conservative") held Marco Rubio up as the prime example of Republican hottie. Surely, that singular "American gay conservative" and plenty of right-leaning housewives across Florida have at least once dream ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Marco Rubio to Appear with Sarah Palin This Weekend
Tea Party dreams do come true! Two stars of the conservative movement, Florida's Republican senate candidate Marco Rubio and right wing queen bee Sarah Palin will share a stage this weekend in Orlando. Somewhere an eagle is surely weeping with joy.
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