By Kat Stansell
January 27, 2025
His Was The First Confirmation For A Reason
Rubio pledges decisions to make America ‘safer’ and ‘more prosperous’
Marco Rubio was the first of President Trump’s appointments to be confirmed. The vote was 99-0 in favor. This could be a bad sign.
Rubio is apparently loved by all, and THAT, folks, is a more than a bit worrisome, especially for the incoming Secretary of State of an administration that is standing against the very essence of the unelected Biden junta, and their Congressional bedfellows. Rubio had been a Senator since 2011. Hold that thought.
Clearly little Marco is loved by ALL, including the Deep State, of which I suspect him to be a member, IF ONLY BECAUSE OF THE UNAMIMOUS VOTE. I had my worries before this, as you know from my “Traitor Locator” article last spring, but here we are – and now, it’s “eyes wide open” time.
Donald Trump has to know that as well; he is FAR from being a clueless man. Going back to the primaries in 2016, Trump referred to him as “little Marco”; they were campaign adversaries.
Rubio has been in the US Senate since 2011, during 6 years of Obama’s terms, then Trump’s, then Biden’s four.
Last spring, I wrote of Marco Rubio in my “Traitor Locator” series. I have not changed my mind. Let me quickly review my reasons, from that article from May 23.
First – and a BIG ISSUE for me, – last year, Marco Rubio voted in favor of the Police State legislation, the FISA 702 renewal, which permitted the FBI to attack private citizens in their homes for federally imagined offenses. That bill was then carried forward by the renewal of a Dept. of Defense (DOD) directive, 5240.01, which expands the use of lethal force against US citizens – JUST THIS PAST SEPTEMBER, 2024. That was six weeks before the Presidential election. Marco Rubio was still a US Senator. He did NOT speak out.
Second, Rubio’s Conservative voting record in Congress, during his 13 years, has been quite low. Liberty Scores, from the Conservative Review, gives him a C- rating, for voting only 71% of the time in favor of Conservative issues.
Even Heritage Foundation – NOT my favorite source of Conservative thought, since they brought Mike Pence on as a “visiting scholar” in 2021 – just recently lowered Rubio’s conservative voting record to a 69%. This was during the contest for VP nominee among Rubio, Scott, Bergum and Vance. Whereas, Scott’s score in the same scorecard rose to an 87%, Marco’s decreased, meaning that he had voted WITH the left more often since the last Heritage poll. Tim Scott was trying, Marco was doubling down in his support of Leftist legislation it seems. NOT a good look for our new SOS.
Vance, just FYI, scored a 93% on the same Heritage Scorecard. He was too new to Congress to show on the Conservative Review.
Now, Marco Rubio is our Secretary of State. Thank God, JD Vance is our Vice President, but I worry.
Yes, Rubio is of Cuban heritage, which is notable, yet really is not that weighty a factor, imho. Hispanics already approve of Donald Trump in record numbers, before Rubio became the SOS nominee. Some world players still support the Castro regime (including the members of the 2020 US Coup). Could this have anything to do with our tangled world order? OK, I realize that may be a bit “out there”, but everything considered, we must consider everything.
Rubio was, of course, vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and as such, formed concerns about foreign actors on the world state. We can only hope they were the correct ones, not preferences of the Left.
I’ll link you to a summation of Rubio, by the AP, which was written immediately after the November election. It is neither supportive nor critical, which could reflect the ”new news” of late, more than meaningful commentary on Rubio, but it’s worth a read.
Florida knows him best of all, from his childhood in a working class family in Miami, to his riding the Tea Party wave to his first seat in Congress. Pray that President Trump knows him best of all.
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