By Jonathon Moseley ——Bio and Archives--June 27, 2013
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“The most important thing we need to do is enforce our existing laws. We have existing laws that are not being adequately enforced. Nothing will make it harder to enforce your existing laws if you reward people who broke them. In essence if you go to people and you say, look, well you have been here for so long, even though you broke the law, we are going to let you stay. Number one it demoralizes the people that are going through the legal process. It’s a very clear signal that why go through the legal process if you can accomplish the same thing through the illegal process. Number two, it demoralizes the people enforcing the law. So I am not, and I will never support. Never have and never will support any effort to grant blanket legalization amnesty to folks who have entered or stayed in this country illegally.” [Emphasis added.]Rubio won election to the US Senate in part by opposing amnesty for illegal aliens and attacking Republican-turned-independent Charlie Crist for supporting amnesty. Rubio said in March 28, 2010, in a campaign debate on Fox News:
“As far as amnesty, that's where the governor [Charlie Crist] and I disagree. He would have voted for the McCain plan. I think that plan is wrong, and the reason why I think its wrong is that if you grant amnesty, as the governor proposes that we do, in any form, whether it's back of the line or so forth, you will destroy any chance we will ever have of having a legal immigration system that works here in America.”It was the lying by Republican politicians, along with Democrats, that sparked the tea party revolution. The ongoing civil war within the Republican Party is against frauds who promise one thing on the campaign trail and then violate those promises when elected to office. Conservatives are tired of being lied to and furious with the broken promises. Conservatives – according to this author’s theory – are willing to accept a candidate who agrees with them on (for example) 80% of the issues, as long as the candidate actually votes that way when elected. But what conservatives are afraid of is a candidate who promises agreement 80% of the time, and then actually votes conservative 40% to 50% of the time once in office. Conservatives want a candidate who promises agreement on 99% of the issues, in the nervous hope that perhaps the candidate-elect will actually vote conservative 70% of the time. Critics accuse the tea party and all conservatives of demanding 100% perfectly “pure” candidates who refuse to compromise to get legislation passed. GOP liberals and “moderates” (forgive the redundancy) are pushing the false narrative that conservatives demand impossibly pure Republican nominees, thereby ensuring failure in the general election against the Democrat nominee. Hogwash. It’s the lying that offends conservatives. If Marco Rubio still has any friends left, it is time for them to stage an “intervention” to call him back to common sense, rationality, and honesty. Someone needs to talk Rubio down from the ledge.
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Jonathon Moseley is co-founder and Legal Counsel of Americans for the Trump Agenda, and Executive Director of the White House Defense Fund. Moseley is serving as Legal Counsel for Americans for the Trump Agenda, and is also a Virginia business and criminal defense attorney. Moseley and a co-host with the “Conservative Commandos” radio show, and an active member of the Northern Virginia Tea Party. He studied Physics at Hampshire College, Finance at the University of Florida and law at George Mason University in Virginia. Moseley promoted Reagan’s policies at High Frontier and the Center for Peace in Freedom. He worked at the U.S. Department of Education, including at the Center for Choice in Education.