cubaninsider: Can Rubio Buy The Presidency?

15.1.16

Can Rubio Buy The Presidency?

The Answer: Yes

Photo courtesy: Ramon Espinosa/Associated Press.

The photo above was used to illustrate a report this week on NPR written by Greg Allen. The caption said: "Ferry from Casablanca in Havana Bay on the way to Old Havana in July of 2015." The first line of the article was: "It won't be long until passengers will be able to take a ferry to Cuba from Miami, an idea that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago in a city that's home to Cuban exiles who fled from the Castro regime." Unfortunately, when it comes to politics in Miami, first-generation extremists still dominate the second-generation moderates, such as the ones who want to ferry more commerce and decency across the Florida Straits.

The NPR article is another reminder that the Cuban-dominated political atmosphere in Miami has changed drastically in recent years with most of its citizens, including Cuban-Americans, now favoring decent overtures to Cuba, such as ending the embargo that was first imposed in 1962 for the then stated purpose of starving and depriving Cubans on the island to induce them to rise up and overthrow their revolutionary government. The problem, as reflected by this photo, is the fact that still today moderate, forward-thinking Cuban-Americans need not apply for election to the U. S. Congress from Miami. From the still-entrenched Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in 1989 to the Diaz-Balart brothers to Marco Rubio to Carlos Curbelo, only hard-line, right-wing, and even ethically-challenged Cuban-Americans need apply.

For over three decades, George Will has probably been America's most read, most visible, and most indelible conservative journalist. But he is not a right-wing extremist. For example, as badly as he wants a Republican in the White House in 2017, Mr. Will is not too fond of the GOP's three leading candidates -- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio. At age 74 in 2016, Will is employed by three high-profile media outlets -- Fox News, Newsweek Magazine, and The Washington Post. His nationally syndicated newspaper column is widely distributed by the Washington Post Writers Group. He is also the most articulate of the conservative journalists. George Will's column this week is entitled: "Rubio's Senate Record of Misjudgment." Paragraph after paragraph, the conservative icon George Will explained why the right-wing, money-crazed, bought-and-paid-for Marco Rubio has, among many other "misjudgments," what Will called a "sugar addition." To quote Will precisely: "His sugar addiction is a reprehensible but not startling example of the routine entanglements of big government and big business. He has benefited from the support of Florida's wealthy sugar producers, who have benefited from sugar import quotas and other corporate welfare that forces Americans to pay approximately twice the world price for sugar. What is, however, startling is Rubio's preposterous defense of this corporate welfare as a national security imperative."

Marco Rubio as President of the United States is a scary proposition for George Will, America's leading Republican conservative columnist. It should be a scary possibility for all Americans. Will stressed Rubio's sell-out both in Miami and in the U. S. Senate to the Fanjul brothers who have a firm grip on America's sugar monopoly, even more than the Fanjul family had on the sugar monopoly in Cuba prior to the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Rubio's "reprehensible" work in the Senate to secure even more tax-dollars in the form of "corporate welfare" for the Fanjul brothers, who long-ago became ultra-rich largely due to tax-funded corporate welfare from Washington, is just one example of Rubio's ethical lapses. Rubio's "preposterous defense" of his additional welfare for the Fanjuls typifies his shady sell-outs to a host of conservative, right-wing, Cuban-American, and Jewish billionaires, all of whom readily understand that -- of all the Republican presidential candidates, -- Rubio has the largest "for sale" sign on his back. Unfortunately, it might get him the nomination. The Republican party, in order to head-off the Trump bandwagon, will soon whittle down to one "establishment candidate" to take on Trump first and then go against Hillary Clinton. Although he currently trails fellow Cuban-American Ted Cruz in the polls, Rubio will likely end up as the Republican Party's Golden Boy. If so, lifelong conservatives like me...and probably like George Will...will cringe and be forced to support...Clinton.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning political Watch-dog -- The Center for Public Integrity -- is your best bet to ascertain whether or not money-crazed politicians, such as Marco Rubio, in a money-crazed political arena, such as the 2016 presidential race, can actually purchase the hallowed White House. Democracy-lovers know that is a distinct possibility since the Supreme Court in 2010 ruled that billionaires can make unlimited donations to support their favorite candidates. An updated article written by Cady Zuvich of The Center for Public Integrity confirms what many already suspected, that Rubio has more than enough conservative, right-wing, and Jewish billionaires to purchase the presidency for at least eight years beginning in January of 2017. {If the White House is for sale, perhaps so is the two-term presidential limit}.