Conservatives see 'right values' in Rubio

Rubio started out with a grassroots campaign and attracted people who were fed up with Gov Crist and the GOP Chairman Greer and the way they were running things. The final straw came when Crist embraced Obama when Obama came to Florida and was happy with the Obama agenda. That did it for Republicans in Florida and Crist numbers tanked until he decided to declare NO Party. Then Crist with his arrogant ways decided the national Democrats should support him over Meeks.

Rubio has not wavered on his core principles and is why people can trust when they elect him to the Senate, he is not going to change his core values to suit the moment. He will be joining Coburn, Inhofe, Sessions, Thune and other Common Sense Conservatives who understand Government is not the answer for everything.

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Conservatives see 'right values' in Rubio

By Susan Page, USA TODAY
LONGWOOD, Fla. — If Christine O'Donnell reflects the political risks of the Tea Party, Marco Rubio represents its potential promise.
In Delaware, O'Donnell's upset primary victory last week may cost the GOP what could have been an easy pickup of a Senate seat. In Florida, however, Rubio has built a double-digit lead in statewide polls this month over Democrat Kendrick Meek and the state's popular Republican-turned-independent governor, Charlie Crist.

Rubio, whose insurgent campaign pushed Crist out of the GOP primary, has consolidated Republican support and made some small gains among independent voters — and in the nation's largest swing state. He has done that with a disciplined message focused on limited government, a compelling life story as the son of Cuban immigrants and an earnest demeanor. A former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, he has the sort of political experience most of the major Tea Party-backed candidates lack.

Conservatives see 'right values' in Rubio.

Rubio says he is fighting to protect American "exceptionalism."

"When the story of this election is written, it'll say that it was a year when Americans kind of glimpsed what it would be like to redefine our country and said, 'No thanks,' " Rubio, 39, said in an interview in the men's locker room at Alaqua Country Club, the only quiet spot around after he delivered a speech to an overflow crowd in the clubhouse.

In the Obama administration, "I think you have people who have dreamed of making America more like Western Europe," particularly on economic policy, he said. He said they seized the recession's travails as "a perfect opportunity" to move in that direction — and in the process created the Tea Party movement.

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