It seems that at any moment, Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz will take their ongoing GOP presidential primary cage match to an actual mat.
Rubio is fixated on painting Cruz as being soft of foreign policy because he voted in favor of the USA Freedom ACT, which limits the NSA and other U.S. intelligence agencies from eavesdropping, or spying on unsuspecting Americans.“It eventually undermines our ability to collect information and to monitor those who seek to harm the United States”- Senator Marco Rubio (Politico)
I get it, and to some degree side with Rubio on this kind of surveillance because we need to know what potential home-grown terrorists are up to.
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But then there is Cruz’s argument about defending the Bill of Rights and civil liberties.
Cruz, like many other U.S. Senators who voted for the bill, as well as millions of Americans, believe that compromising American civil liberties is not up for discussion, and must be protected from an intrusive government.
While Rubio is hitting Cruz hard by saying that he is weak on national security, Cruz is tearing into Rubio for cosponsoring the 2013 Gang of Eight immigration reform bill that President Obama endorsed.“It is not surprising that Marco’s campaign wants to change the topic from Marco’s … I understand politically why they want to change the topic from that, but I don’t think they’re going to be successful.”
In an interview with the Shark Tank in Florida, Cruz responded to Rubio’s resent remark that Cruz supported amnesty for illegal immigrants, and that the two had similar views on immigration reform.
Cruz’s track record in the Senate on foreign policy is more middle-to-right, than that of Rubio’s, which is completely hawkish.Rubio stated this :If you look at it I don’t think our positions are dramatically different. Ted is a supporter of legalizing people that are here in this country illegally. In fact when the Senate bill was proposed, he proposed legalizing people that were here illegally, he proposed giving them more permits.
Cruz: Well that statement is just false and I understand why Marco is feeling the heat and he wants to tell the people his views on illegal immigration are the same as mine.
So, the argument can be made that Rubio, with his foreign policy bona fides, is a tad bit hawkish.
I, like many other Americans, like the hawkish approach to foreign policy, but also would like to see a balance approach whenever it involves my civil liberties.
But when it comes to immigration reform, Senator Rubio’s support for President Obama’s immigration reform policy and agenda is beyond comparison.
Obama continued:“I think that he (Marco Rubio) has been a very positive force”-President Obama, Politico
“As have all the senators who’ve been involved. … And my hope is not only that we … end up with an immigration bill that shows that we’re a nation of laws and a nation of citizens, that helps our economic growth, that helps us attract incredible talent to our shores. But I also hope that it kinda restarts muscle memory in Congress for getting bipartisan legislation done.”
Both men have pushed back at Obama’s entire of un-American political agenda, except for Rubio, who like I said, embraced the Obama immigration plan and saw it out to the very end.
Remember when Rubio stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Sens. Durbin (D) and Schumer (D) and laughed it up during that infamous Senate immigration reform press conference in 2013?
Well, here is a reminder:
I have no doubt that if elected president, Cruz and Rubio would protect the United States, by employing a “neck-breaking” foreign policy that shows no mercy for those trying to kill us.
Expect this ongoing political fist fight between Cruz and Rubio to continue to escalate in the coming weeks and months.