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Scott Sullivan:
US Tea Party to defeat Rubio?
The US Tea Party should consider entering a candidate in Florida’s August 24 Republican Party primary to elect a new Senator. Marco Rubio, backed by powerful Bush clan – would easily be the winner if the election were held today. However, The Tea Party has three reasons for opposing Marco Rubio and his Bush supporters.
First, Tea Party activists believe that Rubio opposes a major role for the Tea Party in Florida politics. Instead, Rubio continues to speaks of a limited role for the Tea Party as an “energy source” that would boost the Republican Party. Rubio seems unaware that most Florida Tea Party activists abandoned Florida's Republican Party long ago because it was dominated by the Bush clan and their wrealthy associates. In this context, Tea Party activists view Marco Rubio not as a representative of independent voters in the GOP but as a spokesman for the selfish interests of the Bush clan.
Second, Tea Party activists view Rubio as a liability for the both the Tea Party and the Republican Party in the Senate race because he is too young to be a credible candidate for the Senate at 25 years of age, too inexperienced in US military and intelligence affairs, and unknowledgable about Latin America's major conflicts. If you conduct a google search on Rubio and Aristide, not a single Rubio op-ed registers on the screen. This reality begs the question -- What is Rubio hiding? Because of these shortcomings, Rubio would be unable to represent Florida effectively in Washington DC, particularly as conflict heats up in Haiti, Venezuela and Iran (see below).
Third, as Florida’s Tea Party activists and Florida's voters in general become more aware of Rubio’s drawbacks as a candidate, Rubio’s popularity will evaporate.
Rubio fails on foreign policy
The new US Senator must be ready to protect Florida’s interests as in the event of a crisis in Haiti. The new US Senator must also be ready to draft and initiate action on a new Ronald Reagan policy of regime change in the pirate states of Bolivia, Venezuela and Iran. A change of regime in Bolivia and Venezuela -- which is a plausible scenario -- could pull down Ahmadinejad’s regime in Iran and destroy all chances of his return to power.
A change of presidency in Haiti, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Iran would be a blessing for US policy in energy security, counternarcotics, and counterterrorism. Gains for US policies in these areas would produce immediate benefits for Florida. Yet for Florida to enjoy these benefits, Florida above all must have representatives in Washington DC with a proven track record on Latin American security.
Rubio’s popularity evaporates
Current political trends suggest that Rubio may soon lack sufficient support from Florida’s voters to be elected to the US Senate.
For example, among Florida voters Rubio’s popularity -- now at sky high levels -- will decline as his intimate ties to the Bush family become publicized. Many of his critics allege that the only reason Rubio wants to win the Senate seat is so he can keep the seat warm until Jeb Bush wants to take it, as a stepping stone to the presidency.
Furthermore, Rubio’s popularity will decline as Bush 41 forces Rubio into political confrontations with Texas Governor Rick Perry. Bush detests Perry because Perry detests Haiti’s de facto president Jean Bertrand Aristide, Bolivia’s president Evo Morales, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez, and Iran’s Nazi president Mahmoud Ahmadienjad (these four pro-terrorist presidents were quiet Bush allies during his White House years, especially Aristide, who Bush and Bill Clinton both supported as Haiti’s president).
Bush may soon demand that Marco Rubio attack Governor Perry as a way of protecting Bush’s political and financial equities with Jean Bertrand Aristide in Haiti and with Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
Bush 41 is trying to knock out Perry in the March 2 Texas Republican Party gubernatorial primary election. Bush 41 and his entire posse (Bush 39, Dick Cheney, Jim Baker, and Karl Rove) now all support Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has entered the Texas primary to defeat Governor Perry.
Rubio’s Bush-induced confrontations with Perry will cause considerable erosion in Rubio’s conservative political base. This is because many of the Rubio-Perry confrontations will relate to Rubio’s support for the Bill Clinton- Bush 41 agenda in Haiti, where both former presidents are involved in a wide variety of well-funded assistance projects.
Moreover, Bill Clinton and Bush 41 have accumulated considerable political power in Haiti as a result of their control over foreign assistance flows, and as a result of the long-standing Clinton-Bush political and financial alignment with Haiti’s dictator Jean Bertrand Aristide.
Bush and Clinton have largely been in agreement on the need for a pro-Aristide government in Haiti. In fact, in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed Mary Anastasia O’Grady documents the achievements of the Bush-Clinton-Aristide government since the early 1990’s. O’Grady asserts that, with quiet support from Bush and Obama, Aristide is essentially Haiti’s de facto president today and has been acting as Haiti’s president since the mid 1990’s.
Tea Party Must Support Florida's Write-In ballot
In short, if the Tea Party activists want to protect national security in Florida, they must put a new candidate in the Republican Party’s primary elections for Senate on August 24. We can anticipate that Bush 41 and his protégé Marco Rubio would represent a liability for such a robust US defense policy, not an asset. If Florida’s rules do not permit Florida voters to submit write in ballots, US Tea Party activists must stage protests and change the rules!
Above all, the Tea Party must find a Senate candidate who can cooperate with Texas Governor Rick Perry and with the newly-elected right wing government in Chile. This Group of THree will produce a strategy for turning to US advantage any Latin American instability created by Aristide, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez, or Ahmadinejad.
Finally, as this fight for control of the Republican Party escalates in Florida and Texas, it appears that the two warring parties consist of the Bush clan and its social upper class and NeoCon allies on one side, and the Reagan Republicans led by Sarah Palin and Rick Perry on the other side (as one pundit observed, the guys who "mow their own lawns"). All I have to say is BRING IT ON!
Scott Sullivan is a former Washington government employee and was the Senior Advisor for International Economics at the Crisis Management Center of the National Security Council, 1984 -1986. Petroleumworld not necessarily share these views.
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