Election 2012 : Florida's Marc Rubio will run for president someday
By: Niall O'Dowd | Published Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 11:55 AM | Updated Friday, September 9, 2011, 9:54 PM
The most impressive winner last night was Marco Rubio the senate winner in Florida.
His acceptance speech reminded me of another minority candidate,
Barack Obama when he first stepped on the world stage at the Democratic convention in 2000.
His paean to his father, a penniless Cuban migrant whose own son is elected to the most powerful institution in America was beautifully stated and deeply felt.
He was also surprisingly modest, not over the top because of his victory, clearly understanding that voters were not voting for
Republicans out of love but out of frustration with the other party.
I found myself moved by
John Boehner, too the next speaker of the House
One of 12 kids who worked 'every job he could' to get through college, he too reaffirmed the American dream in the most amazing way by rising to become the next speaker.
He obviously felt very deeply emotional about that rise and his tears humanized the man in a way that thousands of hours of attack politics never could have.
I would expect Marco Rubio to run for president of the
United States some day in the not too distant future, he has a compelling personal story and is clearly very talented.
I would expect Boehner to be a better speaker than perhaps we might have thought he would be if he holds on to that vision of where he came from.
All in all an intriguing election, Big victories for tea party candidates must be measured beside the loss of races where Tea Party candidates were considered too extreme,such as Susan O'Donnell and
Sharon Angle.
Three elections in a row now, America have thrown the bums out of whatever party. Politicians beware!
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.maloney | Nov 10, 2010, 05:32 PM EST
liamdavid..I hope you remember your wisdom when elections in 2012 are over. If you come stateside dennis & yourself should get along famously.
hancock | Nov 10, 2010, 09:49 AM EST
Good thing we have genius Irish like you Liam , to tell us what to do.
LiamDavid | Nov 10, 2010, 04:13 AM EST
Marco Rubio like most of the other republicans, were elected by the pissed off Americans, since the economy was still crap! Obama wasn’t able to turn America into a paradise in two years, so the weak minded population voted out the democrats and installed the republicans. In two years when all is still s**t, they’ll dump the republicans and reinstall democrats. No one stopped to find out that Rubio is just another right wing whacko, who if given the time, would really cause America trouble!
GeorgeDillon | Nov 06, 2010, 11:57 AM EDT
I'm hoping that Dr Rand Paul will go for the White House some time. Run Rand Run!
DennisQ | Nov 04, 2010, 01:44 AM EDT
I'll admit I don't "get" Pat Toomey. He's never had to work hard. A Harvard graduate, he's always made big money in high finance. But instead of being generous, Toomey is among the skin-flintiest of politicians. Stinginess is not a particularly Irish characteristic, as far as I know.
Toomey opposed the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan which enabled seniors to buy the drugs they need without having to choose between medication or eating. He thinks farm subsidies are related to Communism. He once wrote an article, "Moscow on the Mississippi" condemning subsidies to farmers as intrinsically evil.
Do Pennsylvania voters think this guy is a man of the people? They're certainly wrong about that!
Monsoonman | Nov 04, 2010, 01:42 AM EDT
Eddie DeBartolo fielded a fine football team.
seamusmoore | Nov 03, 2010, 11:31 PM EDT
correction: No Kennedy EVER graduated fro Notre Dame, they may be CPA's in the family.
seamusmoore | Nov 03, 2010, 11:29 PM EDT
Mcnamara31 My point is Obama had no real obstacles once he adopted his "black" persona, making him immune to criticism because clowns in the media like Chris (tingling legs) Matthews bought into it, making him immune from criticism. You have a problem with Obama, then you a racist, according to Matthews and the "Sour Kraut" (Olbermann) at MSNBC. Hey, how many black people in America had a white granny to underwrite their education at the most exclusive private school in the state. As for what I have accomplished, I graduated from Notre Dame, and am a CPA something no Kennedy has ever done. You see, unlike the Ivys, Notre Dame tosses people out who don't perform academically (ask Edward DeBartolo Jr).
warrenpoint00 | Nov 03, 2010, 10:01 PM EDT
Florida is a very decent place to live...that is if you have a few bucks and don,t mind living behind gated security away from those dreaded dangerous migrant landscape and apple pickers.. So much for democracy. Meanwhile back in New York City millionaires share the same street as migrant workers. Thank God for democracy
Rebelforce | Nov 03, 2010, 06:58 PM EDT
Typical how "Irish" Central ignores the victory of the latest Irish Catholic in the US Senate, Patrick Joseph Toomey of Pennsylvania and focuses on a Latino. But hey, Pat Toomey isn't a Kennedy and he's not a liberal, so as far as Irishcentral is concerned he's a nobody.
McNamara31 | Nov 03, 2010, 06:22 PM EDT
seamusmoore ...And your point is?... Even though Obama had the very obstacles that you so condescendingly stated, "in America" he was able, with hard work, and vision of how his life could be, graduate from Harvard and become the president.What have you accomplished lately?
Watchman | Nov 03, 2010, 06:08 PM EDT
If only he was Marco Rubi O'Reilly, eh, Niall? But he isn't.
maloney | Nov 03, 2010, 03:53 PM EDT
Rubio won by around 1 million votes. floridafinn...you should be embarrassed after getting thrashed so soundly, your lib idiot poster child grayson bit the dust also. Florida may turn into a decent place to live after all. California or NY will take you in if you libs can stop whining & crying long enough to read a map. Rubio would make a wonderful President.
hyattsville | Nov 03, 2010, 01:16 PM EDT
Well Niall I don’t know enough about Rubio to make a comment however Rep Boehner.... You can not be serious. From a June 2010 interview with Rep Boehner: "Boehner said he'd favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation, and limiting payments to those who need them." By which time he’ll be well retired or dead and really who the heck cares about the rest of us.
hyattsville | Nov 03, 2010, 12:37 PM EDT
Well Niall I don’t know enough about Rubio to make a comment however Boehner!!!!!! You can not be serious. From a June 2010 interview with Rep Boehner: "Boehner said he'd favor increasing the Social Security retirement age to 70 for people who have at least 20 years until retirement, tying cost-of-living increases to the consumer price index rather than wage inflation, and limiting payments to those who need them." By which time he’ll be well retired or dead and who the heck cares about the rest of us. Yeah I was moved alright.
BallinaLass | Nov 03, 2010, 11:33 AM EDT
Marco is a nice man (I met him briefly a couple of years ago) and I can see his appeal, even though I don't agree with his extreme anti-choice position. He wants to repeal Roe vs. Wade, for those of you who don't know. He's also danced around a bit about privatizing Social Security and Medicare. And one has to be very cautious with Cuban-American politicians - their first loyalty is often to the Cuban part of their hyphenate identity, before the American part. I'm sorry if that sounds racist, but one need only look to the example of former mayor Alex Penelas, whom we thought was a moderate Democrat. People were talking his great future up too, similar to Rubio's magic aura now. And then the bizarre Elian Gonzalez saga happened, Penelas showed his true colors when he said he'd let Miami erupt in riots again (referring to infamous 1980 chaos) before he'd let Elian be delivered back to Cuba. It ended his political career. Other Cuban-American pols acted even more irrational. I'm very leery when they get a national stage for their odd worldview.
seamusmoore | Nov 03, 2010, 11:17 AM EDT
One very large difference between Rubio and the little "O": Rubio was actually raised by his Cuban father, not the product of a bigamous relationship between a married African exchange student and a very gullible 17 year old girl whose knacker of a father had moved the family around the country five times in her childhood. Rubio did not assume a Hispanic identity, he was raised by immigrant parents, unlike Barry Dunham who, by his own admission in his memoir, adopted his African-American identity when he began at Occidental. Barack Obama was raised by his white, socialist mother (Stanley Ann Dunham), at least until her career as an anthropologist led her to dump little Barry on her parents.
floridafinn | Nov 03, 2010, 10:09 AM EDT
Rubio is not the candidate to boast about. You seem to have fallen for his rhetoric. Many of us are embarrassed about the choices our fellow Floridians have made. "We will get rid of government and regulation and go to war when we want and everything will be wonderful." Get real. How did we get in this situation to start with?!!