Dear Marco Rubio, I am leaving the GOP.
October 20, 2013
Dear Senator Rubio,
I found your interview with Chris Wallace stunning. It is hard to believe that just a couple of years ago I supported you, helped convince many of my friends to support you and sent you campaign contributions.
You say you don’t think anyone disagrees with you that our immigration system is broken? You are deluded. There are millions of conservatives who think it is only broken because our immigration policies are not enforced and our Constitution not adhered to. We immigrate over 1 million legally per year – more than all the other nations combined. Destroying this nation by also granting amnesty to up to 20 million illegals will not help citizens, legal immigrants or even illegal ones.
The Department of Homeland Security has bought 2 billion hollow point bullets and is focused on everyday Americans instead of middle-eastern terrorists coming across the open southern border along with the illegals who you want to give amnesty to. Washington was broke when you got elected and it’s even more broken today because this administration violates their constitutional oath of office with impunity.
You are supporting Mitch McConnell for continued republican minority leadership in the senate? The “clean” CR was just as dirty as the health care bill that Pelosi rammed down our throats. The deal that was cut to bribe McConnell to cooperate in ending the government shutdown, the billion dollar deal for Kentucky, has created a stench that reaches every corner of the country. I cannot stand the stench so emphatically, that I am leaving the republican party and instead joining the Constitution Party. What has kept me from doing this in the past is a fear of not having input in my government if I was not a member of one of the 2 major parties that have been set up for me. Well, that point is now moot as the republican party no longer represents me.
Senator Rubio, you do not represent me. You know what communism looks like and yet you are facilitating, not blocking, the marxist policies of this administration. I wonder who will work for you the next time you have a primary race to win? Not me.
I cannot stand to see my country destroyed by our very own elected officials – the nation which used to offer such opportunity for people like your family. You’ll have to stop including that in your speeches because we are rapidly becoming as bad as the third world countries others flee to come here. We have an evil dictator maintained by a corrupt government, using the national checkbook to facilitate perpetual corruption. For example, how many hundreds of millions was spent setting up the website for Obamacare, which is not functional after 3 years? HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS for only 500,000 people to apply for Obamacare? It would have been a lot simpler and less expensive for the taxpayers if Obama just bought all the applicants a high end private insurance policy.
Perhaps the only solution is to move to Egypt. Those people seem to know how to overthrow a corrupt government.
Cindy
New Member of the Constitution Party
Source:
http://www.cpflorida.com/2013/10/22/dear-marco-rubio-i-am-leaving-the-gop/
Ironies abound. To take just one:
“Perhaps the only solution is to move to Egypt. Those people seem to know how to overthrow a corrupt government.”
It’s quite ironic to end an anti-immigration rant with a “solution” that takes the right to emigrate as a given. Why should we expect rights that we would deny to others?
Right on, Starchild!
I don’t disagree with any of the previously posted comments, but on a positive note, I am glad that Cindy is leaving the two-party ruling cartel, even if her reasons for doing so are dubious.
Perhaps once she has a taste of being in an alternative party, and sees first-hand how the cartel has rigged the system against her new party, she will be more likely to realize that poor people seeking a better life in the United States without government permission are not her enemy, but rather it is the government that criminalizes them and tries to keep them out that is our common enemy.
Maybe she can empathize with the Cubans desperate to escape the communist Castro regime who risk their lives coming in homemade boats to reach the United States — and being physically attacked by the U.S. Coast Guard to prevent them from reaching the Florida shore.
If she can empathize with them, then she should also be able to empathize with refugees from other countries like Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, the Philippines, Vietnam, China, etc., because those countries are also run by governments or regimes that allow people there less economic freedom than exists in the United States. It is only a matter of degrees between them and Cuba — the basic problem is the same. Too much government control makes people poor, and it also makes them too politically unfree to be able to change the systems there.
We are also experiencing something similar in the United States. The Obama administration, like those of Bush and others before him (though it has gotten worse), exerts too much government control, and is making people poorer. I hope that if this trend continues, other governments will allow Americans seeking better lives for themselves and their families to relocate to the countries over which they exercise jurisdiction, so that people have a choice besides being stuck in the U.S. as it goes down the economic toilet.
Militarized U.S. borders with walls, fences, and armed border patrols aren’t just useful for keeping people out — they are also useful for keeping people IN.
We are all people — created equal, as the Declaration of Independence put it — and governments violate this basic equality when they discriminate against us on the basis of nationality or where we were born.
Ultimately, citizenship is just another big government program.
JP and KL are exactly right. I don’t think some of these people would be happy unless they put the entire country under a giant protective bubble, like that kid in the old “Seinfeld” episode.
So, will SHE run for office? Or, will she complain while a member of the Constitution Party?
You know, I have to wonder if these ‘testimonials’ from “new members” are legit, or if they’re simply invented by the Party itself to make it sound like it’s growing.
I second Jed’s comment!
AMEN TO YOU BOTH!
I support amnesty. Just because you happened to be born in this fucking country does not entitle you to prevent others from coming here to try to mold a slightly better life for themselves and their family or simply…survive. Of course many of these dumbfucks also support the war on drugs which has directly helped lead to the hellish conditions in Mexico that have caused millions to flee. They lack the ability to empathize with, good, honest, hardworking people (who like themselves are Christian) who are simply seeking a better life and a failed immigration policy makes it difficult for them to do so. Morons like this Bible/Anti-Brown-People-Party member keep forgetting that a bunch of pretentious, white assholes with guns forcefully stole this country from the Indians and committed a form of ethnic cleansing in the process.
I despise nativism. I also hate nationalism and overt patriotism. Happening to be born in a certain set of arbitrary lines does not make you a better human being from someone who was born in a different set of lines, and it entitles you to absolutely nothing, including telling other people that they can’t freely migrate to where you live.
There is no such thing as an “illegal” human being. We are all one human race. The close-mindedness of so many American conservatives/Republicans is beyond absurd.
I hate hearing human being called “illegals”. She says that a couple times in this letter, and I can’t get past it.
I know immigration is a very complicated issue, but, jeez, they’re human beings.
Her arguments are not cohesive. It’s just a bunch of rambling and repeating of talking points. I’m glad she didn’t try to come to the Libertarian Party..