In the post just below this one, I took a look at how Stalinist Rushpubliscums knocked off Republican Congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava in New York for not adhering to the new ideology of the right wing, which can be boiled down to 4 points: racism, religious bigotry, misogyny, and xenophobia. Dede Scozzafava, as a moderate, was so far away from the new requirements for ideological purity that prominent Rushpubliscums like Caribou Barbie, Steve Forbed, and various assorted right wing talking heads publicly threw their support to the “Conservative” Party candidate, Doug Hoffman. It doesn’t matter a bit to these people that Hoffman, when questioned, knows little or nothing about the serious issues facing the Congressional district he’s running in; he knows how to chant the slogans of the new Stalinists, and that’s enough for the new Rushpubliscum nomenklatura.

They mean to drive anybody who doesn’t march in lockstep with them right on out of the party. They’ve been working for 30 years to purge anyone with an IQ of over 70 out of their ranks, and they’re very close to achieving their aims. Yes, they have a few troublesome (as in, thinking) people left to get rid of, but they’re working on them too, both openly and quietly.

Scozzafava was an example of one of their more open campaigns. But people should stop and take note of what they’re doing in Florida, which is largely under the radar of the mainstream media at the moment. For years now, the hard-right ideologues have chafed at what they see as Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s heresies against their ideological requirements, and they’ve long looked for a way to shut him up and shove him aside. In  Marco Rubio, they may have finally found a way to achieve this once and for all. Rubio is of Hispanic ancestry, but he is talking the right language: he’s a xenophobe, a religious bigot, and a gun nut. As a token in a party that is increasingly devoid of them, Rubio is a valuable guy for pursuit the aims of the radicals who now own almost all of the Rushpubliscum Party.

Expect the usual gaggle of idiots to get behind Rubio as election day draws closer in 2010. The silencing of Crist would remove one of the higher-profile heretics from the Rushpubliscum Party, and that just about guarantees that some Alaska white trash will appear at Rubio’s side in the next few months.

U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is an unlikely contender in northwest Florida, a strip of the Bible Belt closer to Alabama than his hometown of Miami.

For the young, Cuban-American politician, Panhandle voters could be a tough crowd: They’ve come across few Hispanic candidates and often view South Florida as a cesspool of incivility and corruption.

But in a Republican primary that’s shifted from a cakewalk for Gov. Charlie Crist to a referendum on whether he has sold his Republican soul, many voters in Northwest Florida say they don’t care if Rubio speaks Spanish — as long as he speaks “true conservative.”

“Listening to you makes me feel like there’s hope,” said retired teacher Anne McLemore after hearing Rubio at a Republican women’s club in Miramar Beach. She added later, “He was saying all the things I need to hear.”

Rubio repeatedly hit the highlights of the conservative agenda in a two-day Panhandle tour last week that took him from a Pensacola diner that boasts “no grits, no glory” to a wood-paneled Best Western in DeFuniak Springs. Offshore oil drilling? Check. No amnesty for illegal immigrants? Check. Limited government, gun rights and term limits? Check, check, check.

He’s been making road trips like this one for months, introducing himself to Republican activists in every corner of a state where he is largely unknown outside of South Florida.

The shoe-leather campaign along with national publicity and a solid fundraising run have made him a credible candidate against the sitting governor.

Still, a Herald/Times poll shows Crist looming over Rubio 50 to 28 percent, with an even wider lead in northern Florida.

“While I’m encouraged, the fact is, if the election were held today, I’d still lose,” Rubio said recently.

Out on the campaign trail, though, the 38-year-old Rubio looks a political giant slayer. Voters slip $50 and $100 checks into his hand and chase him down to get autographs on the September National Review magazine cover photo that boosted his national profile.

“We are tired of apologizing for our principles,” Rubio says frequently. “We are tired of watering down our stands to win elections.”

Except that elections in the nation’s fourth-largest state are typically clinched with multimillion-dollar ad blitzes, not rousing stump speeches. Crist had $6.2 million on hand at the end of September — though some of the money must be reserved for the 2010 general election — compared to Rubio’s stash of less than $1 million.

“Marco has been running in a vacuum,” said Republican consultant Jamie Miller, who ran Katherine Harris’ 2006 Senate bid. “It’s very encouraging to go out and have 100 people clap for you, and it’s an important group of voters, but at the end of the day it’s only 100 voters.”

Walton County Republican Party Chairman Tim Norris, a Crist ally who passed up hearing Rubio speak on his home turf last week, said, “The governor will carry the Panhandle overwhelmingly.”

Even if Rubio musters an upset, his hard-line conservative stances threaten his mainstream appeal in a general election bid for Democratic and independent votes. The former leader of the Florida House says the Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion should be overturned, supports abolishing income taxes in favor of a national sales tax, and declines to venture an opinion on President Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship. (an afterbirther too-what more could you want? ~Jolly Roger)

“I don’t know the answer to that,” Rubio equivocated when asked at the GOP women’s club whether the president’s birth certificate is valid.

Rubio’s response signals that he’s moved farther to the right since term limits forced him out of the Florida House last year though he said during the trip, “I won’t change who I am to get elected.”

Under his leadership in 2008, several House bills aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration languished. Now, “securing the border” is a centerpiece of his platform.

When asked about “English-only” legislation at the Republican women’s club meeting, Rubio declared: “I believe English is the unifying language of America.” The sweeping statement glossed over Rubio’s previously stated opposition to proposals in Congress that could outlaw ballots and government documents in Spanish.

And in 2007, Rubio urged the Republican presidential candidates to participate in a debate aired on Spanish-language television.

Then-Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado boycotted the event because, he said, all Americans should be fluent in English.

“You’re asking candidates to debate in front of a Hispanic audience, and not to do so would be a disservice,” Rubio said at the time.

In his third trip to the Panhandle since July, Rubio campaigned like the election was weeks away. It was still dark out when he arrived at the Coffee Cup diner in Pensacola to greet the morning rush. Between each of seven stops that day, Rubio updated supporters via Twitter and juggled interviews with local radio talk show hosts on his iPhone.

“It’s the part of the state that wins elections for Republicans,” Rubio told another Republican women’s club in Navarre.

In the Panhandle, even the Democrats lean Republican. This is the Central, not Eastern time zone. Billboards say, “America, love it or leave it” and “Discover the power of prayer.” The smattering of military bases across northwest Florida feed one of the biggest populations of service personnel and veterans in the country. FM radio offers plenty of country and Christian music.

“People always ask me how I’m doing in North Florida, it’s so different from South Florida,” Rubio told the group at a Navarre golf club that offered a $25 buffet dinner.

“We live in different worlds . . . we listen to different music, maybe, and eat different foods, though the food tonight was excellent. The only things we have in common are the most important things.”

Never mind that they don’t appear to have had these things in common a few years ago; Rubio has seen the shining WHITE light, and that’s all that matters now. Lester Maddox would probably be appalled to see a brown guy channeling him, but you do what you have to these days to try to win, right?

It’s all good; the ends justify the means. Marco Rubio may shit all over the brown people he comes from, and right wing Jesusistanis may actually hate Rubio’s guts, but they’ll all find a way to work together. Rubio, after all, “proves” that there’s no racism among the right wing “base” of the Rushpubliscum Party. Rubio is what the Rushpubliscums expected Michael Steele to be. Perhaps Steele should campaign with him for awhile to learn what his role is actually supposed to be.

People who are scared that the Rushpubliscums are going to stage some kind of miracle comeback when they refuse to change their tactics one iota are way too worried. The Rushpubliscums aren’t going to make any kind of a serious comeback without a whole lot of help from elections officials and magic voting machines, and elections officials aren’t as Rushpubliscum as they were in 2000, or 2004. Yes, I believe the Rushpubliscums will regain their footing in places like Dixie, but I sldo suspect that they will pay a price for their ways elsewhere. Expect to see things pretty much as they are now in the year 2011. Gingrich believes that things won’t change much, and he’s got a pretty good track record as a judge of the political winds.

Tags: 2010 election, crist, florida, ideologues, marco rubio, rushpublicans

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