Florida's Marco Rubio for the US Senate

The political map for the upcoming election is becoming very interesting. The potential for a lot of unexpected outcomes in local races, such as Florida, which will cumulatively affect national politics, is beginning to appear more and more likely. Some of what is happening today was influenced by some of the successes of the 527 groups, such as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and MoveOn, in the past two national elections.

Ordinary citizens learned from these groups that they could have an influencing voice in how the elections come out. Out of that realization came the Tea Party movement which isn't an actual group, but a collaboration of groups and of unaffiliated individuals. It has gone beyond the group and into a movement. It's also not specifically political party oriented, but spans across the parties. Although it does tend to be conservative in
character not all of the participants were originally conservative.

Something becomes a movement when it spreads beyond a local group and becomes a widespread phenomenon based on a mutually held attitude or opinion or group of similar attitudes or opinions, which is the case of the Tea Party movement. A group is easier to stop. A movement can keep growing and gathering steam like the proverbial snowball rolling downhill, gaining a life of its own and swallowing everything in it's path. Our Revolutionary and Civil wars are two examples of that. They were movements before they became declared wars.

Scott Brown's election in Massachusetts was influenced by this movement. A similar thing is happening in Florida. Even though Mario Rubio was in the Florida State House for eight years and Speaker of the House for the last two and lives in Miami, one of our most populous cities, his name might as well have been Mr. No Name last summer. Most of us had no clue who he was, to the point that he was trailing Charlie Crist by around 25 points.

Now, he's leading Charlie Crist by double digits. What made the difference? Some of the groups in the Tea Party movement have been looking through all of the states to see which candidates to support and to promote. One of those candidates is Mario Rubio.

Just as Scott Brown ran opposing Obama's health-care agenda and spending policies, which were unpopular in his state, Marco Rubio has been running against Obama's Cap and Trade and stimulus spending which have been unpopular here. And just as Scott Brown was running against a democrat who was supporting those issues, Governor Charlie Crist, Marco Rubio's opponent, has been embracing those same unpopular issues.

Charlie Crist supports California's extremely strict and very expensive auto emissions standards, Cap and Trade, the high speed train initiative and appointed a liberal judge to the Florida Supreme Court, none of which are popular with conservatives. Yet, he describes himself as a conservative Republican. His actions don't support that claim. They define him as a moderate to liberal politician.
http://www.marcorubionews.com/as_marco-gets-it_2009-10-26.pdf

Marco Rubio is a Catholic, Cuban American of immigrant parents. He supports traditional family values, gun rights and parental choice in education. He's also pro-life. While he was in the Florida House, he traveled around Florida gathering ideas from citizens on how to improve the state government. It resulted in a book entitled "100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future". The ideas written in this book served as the basis for his legislative agenda in the House, the term before he became Speaker of the house.

The House passed all 100 ideas. Fifty-seven of them became actual law. Some of those laws covered such areas as access to affordable health-care for small businesses, energy efficient buildings and dealing with sexual predators and gangs.
http://www.marcorubionews.com/marco_rubio.html

Marco Rubio has also gained quiet support from our former Governor,Jeb Bush, who is still well respected in this state, as well as support from Bush's sons.
http://www.postonpolitics.com/tag/marco-rubio/

It doesn't matter how many promises a politician may make, especially in this political climate, if they're not backed up with physical evidence or a history of ethical conduct it's going to be much more difficult to be elected or reelected into office this year.

Just as the King of England learned prior to the Revolutionary War. It didn't matter what he said. It was what he was doing that was causing the colonists to rise up across all social lines and barriers. He could rephrase and repackage his message anyway that he chose, but as long as his actions were the same, the colonial rebellion wasn't going to go away. Instead it grew until the King and his people were pushed out.

That is the same with the Tea Party movement, which grew out of the 527 groups. Some of which were formed for the same reason. As long as the actions aren't supporting the words spoken, the movement or another even larger will replace it and continue to grow until there is a remedy.

Another historical example I could list is the French Revolution. The ruling class pushed so far and so arrogantly that the movement got out of hand and everyone who didn't exactly agree or appeared that they may not, paid with their lives. The people had been pushed too far. In the case with the upcoming elections, the casualties could be all incumbents including the ones who are actually doing their jobs.

Sources:

http://www.marcorubionews.com/as_marco-gets-it_2009-10-26.pdf

http://www.marcorubionews.com/marco_rubio.html

http://www.postonpolitics.com/tag/marco-rubio/

http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/03/now-trailing-marco-rubio-charlie-crist-emphasizes-his-job/

http://dailycaller.com/2010/02/11/charlie-crist-if-you-thought-marco-rubio-was-different-look-again/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+DC+Morning&utm_campaign=Daily+Email&utm_term=3_%29+Crist%3A+Rubio+cut+from+my+cloth

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/v-fullstory/story/1459829.html