Poor Rush Limbaugh. He must be the last conservative standing who hasn’t yet realized that Marco Rubio is a pro-amnesty quisling who had a “long history of blocking immigration enforcement” back in Florida.
The popular radio host has started discussing amnesty, perhaps because of the many complaints from his listeners that he has been ignoring the worst threat to America in years.
So Limbaugh has been mouthing the appropriate words about amnesty being really a bad thing that ruined California etc., but it’s becoming more clear that his continuing recalcitrance likely stems from a stubborn political infatuation with the photogenic young snake-oil purveyor, once a great Republican hope for the future.
There is more proof of protectiveness from today’s show. Note the use of the word “clarify” from Rush in reference to Rubio’s pledge of amnesty on Spanish-language radio. It didn’t take much from Rubio to convince Rush that the Senator is acting in America’s best interest.
Actually, Rubio probably believes a hispanicized America would be a fine improvement over the majority white population of today!
But today’s news is that Limbaugh is still swilling the Rubio Kool-Aid, willing to believe whatever obvious whopper the Senator spins.
Amnesty: GOP’s Ticket to Nonexistence, RushLimbaugh.com, June 12, 2013
CALLER: [. . .] And I cannot tell you how seething mad I am, as I’m sure a lot of your listeners are, especially hearing, you know, one of the great hopes of the young Republican class, Senator Rubio, going down this path doing exactly opposite of what he initially said he was going to do.
RUSH: Well, let me clarify for you what he told me on the phone today. And he reminded me that he said this while he was here whenever his last interview was on the program. And he said it then, too. His point is, he’s not relegating border security to secondary status. He has just decided that we need to get these 11 million people, whatever they are, identified so that they’re it, that they’re the end of it, it stops after them. And the only way to do that is to immediately put them on the pathway to citizenship. But it’s all part of securing the border, is the point that he’s trying to make. His point is he’s really not changing his strategy or his opinion on this.
He points out there’s still the 10- to 13-year waiting period before they’re granted citizenship. I did on the phone this morning, I asked him, “Well, what about the idea, we had it yesterday, that those people during that 13-year period are not eligible to vote, they’re not eligible to get Obamacare benefits or any others, so what about the idea that they’re gonna be hired first, they’re cheaper?” He said, “Yeah, that’s a problem, and it goes to show we’ve gotta deal with Obamacare as well.” But he’s insistent that the legalization process is not the right to vote immediately, it’s not the right to collect benefits immediately. It’s simple drag ’em out of the shadows so they’ll be identified so that we know that’s it, no more after that. Then we secure the border to make sure that doesn’t happen.
