Op-ed:

Who's Really Running The Show

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

 

Last week in my article Calling For Unity While Spreading Hate, I asked the compound question why with the word “MAGA” simply being an acronym for the words “Making America Great Again,” why has that solely become the property of we Republicans and Conservatives, and why aren't there any Democrats who want America to be great? And this got me to thinking that the answer to both parts of said question can be summed up in but three words...Barack HUSSEIN Obama. And why Obama...
because his racially focused presidency marked the final demise of unity that the events of September 11th brought to our country.

Remember how on that most horrific of days a common enemy united us together as one American people...no hyphens needed...and how we of all skin colors joined hands while crying tears of red, white, and blue. Remember how on that day we put politics aside as we tried to make sense of what was our collective nightmare and grief. Remember American flags proudly flying from “sea to shining sea” in a show of solidarity, and how at the time the Patriot Act seemed the logical next step in helping to ensure America's future safety.

Remember it all, and especially how time itself helped erode away the camaraderie “We the People” had once felt as the physical distance between that fateful day in September, while not forgotten, morphed, as most events do, into both complacency and a rightful distrust of new government rules that had supposedly been put into place to help keep us all safe...safe from terrorists that is.

And so with time the Patriot Act...the very act that once enacted “enhanced the abilities of law enforcement regarding surveillance, money laundering for terrorism financing, and improved intelligence sharing between government agencies”... started to crumble as we realized that not only was said act asking American citizens to give up certain all important civil rights...like our Constitutionally given right to privacy...but was deemed by many to do so most especially for “people of color.” How so...because the act as written allowed for the definition of “terrorism” to be expanded and for law enforcement...including the FBI and DOJ...to use its new “authorities” given in more instances, including in cases of drug enforcement and being able to “surveil” political activists more closely...read black political activists here.

And so in a way a new generation of black “activism” was born from the Patriot Act's then deemed abuse of power, thus allowing certain black “activists” who were once considered to be but a “fringe element” to now become mainstream. And in said “black fringe” doing so...and note I say “fringe” and not all black folks...they were given a voice to basically spread their agenda of hate...white is bad, black is good, whitey owes us, pay up or trouble is on the horizon.

Simply, both the unity and colorblindness seen on 9/11 was now gone as all things American, according to the newly voiced “black fringe,” had an anti-black racial component and scenario behind it. And in my opinion this new mindset all came to a head when in March 2012 then President Barack HUSSEIN Obama uttered ten simple words, “If I had a son he would look like Trayvon.”

And with those words spoken not only did Obama give a wink and a nod to groups like BLM, but he helped to reignite all the old racial hatreds...hatreds that had for the most part healed over...as he set into motion the downfall of both common sense and the rule of law that is our Constitution by his replacing both with a cleverly crafted, racial divide. And why...because no president, in my opinion, has ever hated all that America stands for than the man who refused then and still refuses now to accept his white half...still refuses to accept the fact that he's mixed race not black. The great pretender now exposed...not white enough to pass...just dark enough to fool white bleeding heart liberals back in 2008 that a vote for him would help end racism in America. Translation: we should vote for him solely based upon his chosen skin color in order to fix past wrongs...his lack of presidential qualifications be damned.

And with Obama's presidency the media made us out to be a nation mired so deep in both racial hatred and distrust that with time the blame game came full circle to land at “We the People's” feet. And while we are a nation who no longer seems to be at war with those who are freedom's true enemies...outsiders like those who slammed passenger jets into buildings and those who knowingly enter our country illegally...we have allowed a fool...on Obama's orders...to declare that we are at war with those we share a common nationality with...a war with ourselves if you will...a combined political and race war helping to drive forward Obama's “fundamental transformation” of America...a transformation that goes deeper than mere surface appearance and deeper than any words spewed by the afore mentioned fool.

Yes, we white “MAGA Republicans” have indeed been declared the “enemy” by the fool of a man the puppet master easily controls, but the consequences of such a declaration are as of yet untold for when a nation's politics forces its people to turn upon itself...turn upon its societal norms, morals, values, and ideals...that nation is doomed in the end to fail...fail while eyes once opened to the truth now remain tightly shut. That sadly is where we as a country are today as can be seen by those who try to take the lessons learned and camaraderie shown 21 years ago and twist them to turn the events of January 6th into this generation's political and racial Armageddon.

And while today's Democrats relish in comparing the two events, no matter that the former has nothing to do with the later, they prove yet again that lessons once learned can easily be both media and politically manipulated so as to be forgotten. September 11th united our nation and the sum of our people together...January 6th divided us via what has become both a politically motivated, racially driven, and personally targeted agenda against not only one man in particular but against the sum total of we white “MAGA Republicans.” And so the collective commonalities we once shared have been turned into but compartmentalized, racially driven, spewed out hate.

And it all goes back to the Obama presidency and its constant race baiting...America's house deliberately being divided against itself...which culminated with those ten hateful words that put one's skin color paramount above all else. And this, sadly, laid the ground floor for all that has come after.

How so? After the Trayvon Martin incident, so-called “social justice” became more important to Obama and his socialist agenda than both criminal justice and Constitutional law. Working with what was malice intended, Obama tried hard to fray the ties that bind us together as Americans, as he willingly chose to rip us apart along racial and party lines. And so race became his ground zero from which all the hateful partisan rhetoric could then emanate from, and which it sadly still does today.

And once Obama unlocked Pandora's Box of what had become but toned down racial rhetoric, he then started spewing out a liturgy of false claims that America now remains an “inherently racist nation” with a judicial and law enforcement system that was knowingly biased against people “of color.” And when crime rates slowly, albeit steadily, started to rise under what was Obama's “pen and phone” presidency, he helped shift the blame off black career criminals by making criminals out of those whose job it is to actually enforce our criminal laws. Laying the foundation for the BLM initiated “Defund the Police” movement, what Obama did as president was not unlike what the Patriot Act tried to do but ultimately failed in doing, as in overstepping the bounds of executive power as laid out in the Constitution.

And from the now skin color driven foundation set by Obama...the man who abused both the presidential office itself along with the power said office afforded him...we bore witness to not only racial hatred becoming the accepted one-sided new norm, but to the rewriting of American history to help fit and push forward an agenda designed to “transform” our nation into one unrecognizable to half of we American citizens. And said “transformation” was to be more in line with an authoritarian regime than even the left's falsely claimed “democracy” could ever be.

One man to rule over us all even if said man must at times hide within the shadows...one man who believed his race alone was what denied him his Constitution be damned, so craved third term in office...a man forced by Hillary's loss to now have to pull the strings of one who is but a fool...an ever dangerous fool who believes himself to be invincible while our country both at home and abroad crashes down around him. But what is now the saddest of all is that it's “We the People”...the very ones the string pulled fool took an oath to serve and protect...who have become but collateral damage at best.

Simply asked...have we now become a nation of such weaklings that we are too afraid to fight back...have we acquiesced and become too accepting of the one we know is actually running the show? Or does our collective fear of being deemed racist unknowingly...at least on the surface...keep us in line to some degree for to be deemed a racist translates into others seeing us and treating us as bigoted, hateful, political ideologues...a characterization that plays well into Obama's socialist transforming of our beloved America.

So while our beloved America still appears to no longer be safe from either the enemies who live outside our borders...9/11 proved that...nor from domestic enemies who actually live amongst us...enemies called not by the fool who recently labeled “MAGA Republicans” as a threat to our (erroneously stated) democracy, but by the man who refused to relinquish the power he craved when his time in office was up. Barack HUSSEIN Obama remains that man...a man who continues to play the “race card” every chance he gets, and who will stop at nothing to claim what he considers to be his wrongly denied third term in office even if it means reigniting the now simmering racial color divide. Remember, this is a man who will sell America out for a few rubles or yuan if it helps his “fundamental transformation” of America reach its final fruition. 

And let's not forget that fools can easily be thrown aside...devils in disguise not so easily done so. Case closed.

Copyright © 2022 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

 

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Op-ed:

Designation Needed

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio

With the presidential election being less then a month away we still see the violence and mayhem continuing on unabated in Democrat controlled cities even while the media seems to be downplaying it. And now with those on the left mimicking the excuse used by BLM that said violence and mayhem is but “ opportunistic vandalism” and that most BLM protests are peaceful in nature, even more lies are being added to the lies already spewed that Black Live Matter is not an anarchist group and therefore should not and must not be labeled as such. And it's my opinion that BLM is indeed not only a Marxist based, agendized, anarchist group, but a group whose hierarchy plans and coordinates said riots and mayhem while sitting back, as most cowards do, paying others do their dirty work. Simply, BLM along with Antifa, should rightfully be designated as domestic terrorist groups.

So why aren't they both designated as such...as usual because of partisan based rhetoric coupled with their shared overtly leftist Democrat-Socialist party enablers. Remember back to July 18, 2019 when Senate Resolution 279 was first proposed, a resolution that called not only for groups and organizations acting under the banner of Antifa to be designated as domestic terrorist organizations, but also called for the “Federal Government to redouble its efforts, using all available and appropriate tools, to combat the spread of all forms of domestic terrorism, including White supremacist terrorism”...well that resolution basically went nowhere because of word semantics regarding Section 802 of the Patriot Act.

And while the Patriot Act does address foreign based terrorism (think jihad here)...domestic terrorism...as in home grown terrorism...would basically be, if the act were to be amended, an expansion of foreign terrorism that would now include domestic terrorism as meaning (like with foreign terrorism) any person or group who has engaged in an act “dangerous to human life” that is in violation of the criminal laws of a given state or of the United States itself. Now couple that with domestic terrorism then designated to mean (again like with foreign terrorism) “an act intended to intimidate or coerce the U.S. civilian population; influence the policy of our government by intimidation or coercion; and/or affects the conduct of our government via mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping,” and one would clearly see how the ongoing actions of both Antifa and Black Lives Matter truly do fit the definition of a terrorist organizations as both groups share similar ideologies and objectives.

But what's not so easy to understand is the Democrats reasoning behind not giving both groups the much needed domestic terrorist label. Saying that Antifa...founded in Germany and the U.K. during the anti-fascist movements of the 1920s and 1930s, Antifa as we know it today came to the U.S. in the 1970s and 1980s as an anti-fascist action and left-wing political movement. And while Antifa is not a “formal organization” per se, as it does not have a formal leader, specific membership roles, or a defined centralized structure, it is an array of autonomous and diffuse localized groups that are indeed organized, and who have fairly large followings on social media, an example of which is the Rose City Antifa in Portland, Oregon who has played a key role in that city's ongoing violence. 

Also, Antifa’s goal according to those members, if you will, who have spoken to the media is to both deny who they consider to be fascists or far-right activists a platform from which to speak as well as to “dehood Klansmen” even if it takes violence to do so...with legalized policy reform be damned. 

 

And the group...or the sometimes called movement...we commonly refer to as Black Lives Matter is actually an “umbrella coalition” comprised of 150 different organizations, including the Black Lives Matter Network. And it's this network which demands "reparations for the wealth extracted from our communities through environmental racism, slavery, food apartheid, and housing discrimination," and who pushes forward the aforementioned “opportunistic vandalism” nonsense as being not only a justifiable excuse to burn, loot, and terrorize, but that it's an owed to them form of reparations for the injustice of slavery...an injustice that they themselves were never party to. 

But the truth is that the actions of Black Lives Matter have shown their message to be based more upon continuing the generational “gimme-gimme, you owe me” mentality used to keep their own people in line. And why so? Simply, because that allows BLM to continue with their instilling of a misplaced sense of entitlement within poor inner city black communities by their feeding upon an unnatural fear of a self-perceived white enemy, while at the same time allowing their leaders to grow richer and politically more powerful as their group's numbers increase.

So while Black Lives Matter does say in its online mission statement that “we stand against state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism," those words are but divert-and-deflect propaganda material for while BLM says one thing they have proven almost daily to do just the opposite, as in actually advocating for violence specifically against white males and the police. To BLM and their ilk, state sponsored violence targets black people alone no matter that the very concept they use to feed their hate does not really exist. And the fact is that a big part of the violence being witnessed today is actually courtesy of BLM encouraging their own people to both continue to set American cities on fire and to continue the rioting until their self-serving objectives are met.

And the other obvious sponsor of violence is the Antifa sorts what with their supporters sharing both common protest tactics and specific key targets with Black Lives Matter as well as their believing that violence, mayhem, and terror tactics...including military-style tactics...are the much needed tools by which to combat what they consider to be the alt-right...as in far-right extremists and white nationalist groups they erroneously say have grown stronger, more vocal, and more defiant under the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Guess they willingly ignore the fact that almost all the racial unrest going on today began courtesy of Barack Hussein Obama's “If I had a son...” rhetoric.

In other words, those supporting and taking part in either BLMs and Antifa's thought processes and what amounts to terror driven theatrics are of the same mindset for both see the government and white people as a common enemy...an enemy that must be eliminated through any means possible including violence if need be. And both Antifa and BLM are indeed the perpetrators of the still ongoing riots and mayhem...actions now peppered with murder if need be...vile actions that the Democrat party along with its hierarchy still vehemently refuse to condemn, and we all know that if one does not condemn one surely does condone.

So as we continue to bear witness to over one hundred days and nights of violence, we don't need the media, the Democrats, BLM or Antifa telling us that what we see going on with our own eyes in major Democrat controlled cities is simply nothing but “opportunistic vandalism.” And we surely don't need Trump-hating Democrats with an agenda telling us that there is no legal authority that would ever allow either group to be designated as domestic terrorists. Saying that to do so would automatically lead to First Amendment challenges, the fact is that even if by some chance the First Amendment did offer either group a modicum of protection as per their right to “free speech” and to “address grievances,” both groups have outwardly and continuously violated the right of “peaceably assembling.”

And with both groups having committing tangible crimes...crimes actually caught on tape and born witnessed to...crimes we still see happening every night on the news... leaves both BLM and Antifa open to abject criminal charges if nothing else...criminal charges that neither group has yet to be prosecuted for. But hopefully that too will soon change for while the RICO law was designed specifically to prosecute organized crime, the courts have allowed RICO to be applied somewhat more broadly, thus allowing BLM and Antifa to fall under the description of being RICO charged.

But the overall fact remains that both entities, whether they be an organized group or not, do need to be classified as domestic terrorists, after all their actions demand it. And while neither Black Lives Matter nor Antifa fits the current federal definition of a terrorist organization nor has either been designated as such on the State Department list of foreign terrorist organizations, there still remains an important legal question that must be answered in order to do so...with the question being do either of the group's acts of violence rise to crimes of terrorism as defined in the Patriot Act? I believe they do no matter that the definition includes the need for specific criteria to have been carried out as in if said group(s) have engaged in planning and preparations for possible future acts of terrorism and/or if they retain the capability and intent to carry out such acts in the future.

And while we all do know the answer is most assuredly yes on both accounts, there currently exists no legal process for designating any domestic, home grown group as a terrorist organization...the must needed first step. Therefore, applying the so much needed moniker domestic terrorist, as it exists now, to either Antifa or BLM becomes but a non-legally binding catch phrase at best when what is truly needed is an actual legally applied designation. And besides, attorneys on the left would raise a constitutional ruckus that BLMs and Antifa's actions are both protected speech and assembly no matter that they sometimes, actually that they most times, seem to turn violent, thus opening up the possibly for both short-and long-term political implications that we have no specific frame of reference by which to gauge right from wrong constitutionally wise. This alone would justify political adversaries concerns that such a designation has a great potential for abuse.

So while I personally believe that President Trump should indeed declare both groups as domestic terrorist organizations...for truthfully that is what they are designation or no designation...he needs to do so with the letter of the law solidly and irrefutably behind him. After all, we are a nation of laws and it's that very concept of law that has made and kept America both exceptional and strong.

Copyright © 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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Op-ed:
Marco Rubio...A New American Century
By: Diane Sori* / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / cprworldwidemedia.net

Well it seems the Republican field is narrowing down one by one...first Scott Walker dropped out, then Rick Perry, and now Bobby Jindal has left the race. Three good men gone. And while others remain...for now anyway...some serious whittling down of candidates needs to happen...for example, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum need to go as they just don't get that America is not nor will it ever be a theocracy. George Pataki and Lindsay Graham have no chance whatsoever of getting the nomination. Rand Paul is a joke just like his father was and that picture of Chris Christie embracing Obama is forever ingrained in our collective minds. Jeb Bush needs to save face and drop out now because every time he opens his mouth his foot goes in it. And John Kasich thinks he's smarter than anyone else running so bye-bye Kasich.

As for Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson...Dr. Carson would make a great Surgeon General or head of HHS but his meek and mild demeanor is not what America needs right now, and besides one good speech at the National Prayer Breakfast does not a president make nor does becoming a Republican a mere six months before announcing your run cut it. As for Donald Trump...having just gone through almost seven years of a narcissistic blowhard with no substance behind him, we do not need four more years of the same. Plus flipping one's party affiliation time and time again just shows that changing your voting designation also does not a Republican nor a Conservative make...especially when you need Billy-Boy's permission to run against his wife.

Now we're down to three...Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio. While Fiorina is one smart cookie, a great debater, and knows the business end of things, the problem is that in today's day and age of islamic terrorism that is simply not enough. As for Ted Cruz, the man who seems to have forged an alliance of sorts with Donald Trump, which might play well for now but when push comes to shove people will see that Cruz aligned himself with a showman who spews the right words but has no tangible policies to back-up those words...and that will not bode well for Ted Cruz as it's a bad judgement call that he will be forced to answer for.

That leaves the last man standing, Florida Senator Marco Rubio, a six-year member of the Foreign Relations Committee who unlike all the rest truly understands that in this day and age of ever-expanding islamic terrorism that foreign policy...coupled with standing strong with our allies...must be the prime focus of this election. And why...because if we do not get foreign policy issues right...if we do not keep the enemy 'over there' nothing else will matter...not the economy...not jobs...not a fence that will not keep them out anyway...nothing.

Marco Rubio is an American success story...a true 'working class' success story living the American dream, and is a man who is truly grateful for all that America has given to him. And now that man...a man both proud and humbled... wants to give back to the country he holds dear to his heart. And when you couple that with the fact that he truly cares about 'We the People's' concerns, issues, and problems, it becomes more than a bit obvious that Marco Rubio alone is the man to counter and win against Hillary's story...a story wrapped up in dirty deals, lies, deceit, and cover-ups, key amongst them being Benghazi. Marco Rubio is the future and Hillary Clinton is the past...a past our beloved America sorely needs to leave behind.

America needs a fighter...a man who can stand-up to criticism...a man who can put America's 'enemies within' in their place, and to that affect Marco Rubio is the only one of the candidates to call Hillary what she truly is...a liar...and he did so on national television for all to hear. Remember Rubio's words at the last debate when he said, “Last week, Hillary Clinton went before a committee”... “She admitted she had sent e-mails to her family saying, “Hey, this attack at Benghazi was caused by al-Qaeda-like elements.” “She spent over a week telling the families of those victims and the American people that it was because of a video. And yet the mainstream media is going around saying it was the greatest week in Hillary Clinton’s campaign. It was the week she got exposed as a liar.” Those are fighting words...words of a man not afraid to speak the truth, and after all these years of Democratic lies a fighter is what America needs and Marco Rubio fits that to a tee.

But before anything else, let's set the record straight on Marco Rubio's stance on Immigration Reform...simply put if it wasn't for Marco Rubio being in the so-called 'Gang of Eight' we would now be living under the McCain/Graham Amnesty Bill for it was Rubio, whose very presence threw a wrench into that proposed bill when he insisted on securing the borders first before any reform takes place.  

“The only way we're going to ever make progress on this issue is to first deal with illegal immigration, secure the border, win people's confidence that in a reality this problem is under control,” Rubio said, and securing the border was not part of the McCain/Grahm Bill at all. Marco Rubio is vehemently against amnesty for 'illegals' and is for a type of 'Pathway to Citizenship'...as was our beloved Ronald Reagan...because he understands that America...aside from the felons...will not deport 22 million people which both Trump and Cruz call for...nor will we be breaking up families or sending so-called 'anchor babies' back to the countries of their parent's birth...countries they know nothing about. Rubio is rightfully for enforcing the laws currently on the books and moving outward from there, but before anything else Marco Rubio is for sealing the borders...something he has always been for.

Another touch-point of this upcoming election being pushed by the Democrats is student debt, and to that affect Marco Rubio understands the obstacles faced by many who want to go to college but who cannot afford to. Having faced this obstacle himself, Rubio has proposed a number of workable and very doable proposals aimed at reducing the cost of college and graduate school. However, unlike Hillary's 'free-for-all' college for everybody proposal...a proposal actually paid for with our hard-earned taxpayer dollars...one of Rubio's proposals calls for private investment groups to pay for tuition in exchange for a percentage of future earnings. And while this proposal would not replace federally subsidized student loans, it would provide students with an alternative to not having to pay off large sums of monies borrowed to get a quality college education...debt that takes years if NOT decades to pay off.

However, foreign policy must be the key issue in this election because of the global killing machine known islamic terrorism. And no candidate is better prepared and qualified to deal with America's enemies abroad than is Marco Rubio, an integral member of the 'Foreign Relations Committee' for six-plus years now, meaning Rubio knows well the enemy we fight and he proudly stands up for those who fought that fight when they come home. In fact, Rubio stood by our veterans when then Democratic VA Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders tried to stop his efforts to put veterans needs before the needs of unions and Washington bureaucrats. Playing a key role in passing legislation to overhaul the VA, Rubio was asked to be part of the Senate's 'Veterans Affairs Conference Committee' because of his work in sponsoring the 'VA Management Accountability Act of 2014', which was passed overwhelmingly by the House, and included in it his proposal to allow the VA Secretary to fire incompetent bureaucrats...something that was long overdue.

And tied directly into foreign policy is national security for in today's world where ISIS continues to run amok, what happens 'over there' affects what happens here in America. And Marco Rubio has proven himself to be a true champion of 'We the People' in ways that help protect the 'health, safety, and welfare' of we American citizens, and in doing so exhibits the strength needed for presidential leadership. Case in point...you simply cannot cutback intelligence gathering programs nor can you side with Harry Reid and the Democrats whose policies counter American security issues, and that is exactly what Ted Cruz did when he surprised many by voting in favor of the 'USA Freedom Act'...the bi-partisan reform version of the 'Patriot Act...the very act that George W. Bush put in place after 9/11 that, to-date, has for the most part kept us safe at home.

And in saying that the bill weakened "U.S. national security by outlawing the very programs our intelligence community and the FBI have used to protect us time and time again," Rubio rightfully voted against the 'USA Freedom Act' because it failed to both follow through with the 'Patriot Act' and preserve existing National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance authorities that many Democrats and libertarian-leaning Republicans...like Rand Paul...erroneously believe are too “all-encompassing.”

But even with the 'USA Freedom Act' somewhat increasing privacy and oversight by creating an 'advocate' for the public, it requires the NSA to give specifics as to why surveillance is needed on a particular individual. But with the nightmare in Paris leaving over 130 dead and over 300 wounded, the 'USA Freedom Act' as Rubio said, “actually leaves America more vulnerable to attack” because it “will cost us the ability to gather actionable intelligence against elements operating in our territory.” In other words, by the time all the paperwork is done to allow said surveillance, that individual could have already carried out the very deed that could have been prevented if the NSA did not have to jump through the multitude of legal hoops this act now requires.

So one has to wonder why Ted Cruz, a man who holds a centrist position on surveillance, would restrict intelligence gathering by supporting a bill that Obama wanted...a 'red flag' if there ever was one. And while Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio do share similar views and positions on certain issues such as the farce known as Climate Change, Common Core, and ObamaCare, it's now obvious that they do part ways when it comes to the all-important foreign policy and national security issues...issues critical to the 'health, safety, and welfare' of 'We the People.'

And with Ted Cruz saying that the 'USA Freedom Act' struck "the right balance between protecting our privacy rights and our national security interests" you can see that Cruz does not understand that when islamic terrorism is spreading worldwide, the right balance is to have America's national security interests paramount above everything else. And Cruz's statement is but one reason why Marco Rubio is more electable than Ted Cruz...his only true opponent for the Republican nomination. And with Rubio being a pragmatist who sees the individual pieces of the puzzle fitting together to form the 'big picture', against Cruz being an ideologue who focuses on single pieces of the puzzle instead of the whole, it becomes obvious that Marco Rubio is the only one who can actually win against Hillary...or any other Democrat (as in Julian Castro) that might be put into the mix after the F.B.I. hopefully hauls her off to jail. And why is that...because Marco Rubio is seen across the board as being both honest and trustworthy by a majority of voters, while Hillary is seen as being both dishonest and untrustworthy even by most voters in her own party...and rightly so.

Remember, it's time we turn the reigns of power...the reins of government...over to the next generation of leaders, especially leaders like Marco Rubio who are grounded in conservative principals, values, and ideals. And Rubio is well received by both millennials and women voters, and with polls continuously showing him beating Hillary in key swing states like Iowa, Colorado, Virginia, and Florida in the general election, and now when you add in that according to the latest FOX News poll Rubio beats Hillary in a head-to-head race by 50% to her 42%...with no other candidate coming close to those numbers...you can see that Marco Rubio is the man Hillary and her machine fear most for he has something that is truly appealing...something Hillary does not have...and that is humility.

And with the 2016 election being about numbers...'specific' numbers...the only candidate who can pull in those needed 'specific' numbers is Marco Rubio and here's why...in the general election no candidate can win unless they carry the Hispanic vote...and in that vein they must be able to converse with this important segment of the voting block in their own language. In fact, Latino Decisions, specialists in Latino public opinion research, said that if the 2016 white vote is 59%, Republicans would need between 40% to 47% of the Hispanic vote to reach a majority...and a man NOT fluent in Spanish would not likely reach that critical must-get number. Remember, in 2012, Mitt Romney who did NOT speak Spanish only won about 27% of the Hispanic vote, but in 2004, George W. Bush who did speak Spanish won over 44% of the Hispanic vote. And the study also found that Republicans still need between 40% to 47% to win those majorities in the key states of Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, and Virginia...and Ted Cruz is simply not fluent in Spanish.

And lets not forget that someone who is fluent in Spanish stands a much better chance of bringing the Hispanic vote permanently over to the Republican party, because in Marco Rubio they see someone who understands their culture and their American dream.

And while Texas will go 'red' no matter who becomes the Republican nominee, this means Cruz brings nothing to the Electoral College numbers. But with the key swing state of Florida being determined by which candidate gets the Hispanic vote, and with Hispanics making up 27% of the state's electorate, along with an estimated 800,000 Hispanics turning 18 each year, Marco Rubio really is the only candidate that could bring in that needed 40+% number and turn Florida back to red, and it's because of his middle class background and his ability to identify with and speak directly to that critical segment of the population.

But the bottom lines remains that Marco Rubio...young, dynamic, focused, and ever positive...is the best candidate to represent America's future as we move ever forward into 'A New American Century'.
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