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‘Watchmen on the wall of world freedom.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  May 20th, 2009 at 08:17 AM  | 

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A quote from Kennedy’s last, undelivered speech – and one quoted by Florida Senatorial candidate Marco Rubio as part of his farewell speech to the Florida legislature.

Via And So it Goes in Shreveport. No transcript yet, sorry.

I’ve been personally staying out of the entire Crist/Rubio NRSC endorsement brouhaha, mostly because we’re going to have Senatorial candidates that are going to need the NRSC’s help – but I do have to ask: does Charlie have anything that can beat that?

Seriously. Does Crist play at that level? – Because if he doesn’t, this is going to be an interesting primary.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • Brian Hibbert

    What’s the matter with them?

  • mriggio

    This young man certainly seems to be the ‘real deal’! Wish I lived in Florida and had the chance to vote for him, rather than being stuck in Illinois, where my last Senatorial choice was, um, ah, never mind, suddenly I’m feeling a bit depressed….

  • Broomy

    Crist might want to get himself a Plan B job.

  • Brian Hibbert

    We can use your help.

    Contact your county GOP headquarters and see if they need a precinct committeeman.

    And don’t get depressed. We have a chance to take back the government here.

  • tankertodd

    I thought I could multi-task while listening to this. Wrong answer. His speech compelled my attention, which is no easy feat. I’m very impressed, and more so because it wasn’t the polish of his delivery but the power of his ideas.

  • Jim Tomasik

    .

  • deevee

    This is what real America is all about. Our God given rights, not taken away with burdensome taxes, smoking bans, and anti gun legislation.

    He gets it , can articulate these ideas and has passion!!!!!

  • zeebeach

    I also was amazed at my reaction to this…had me in tears a couple of times. Any $$ I have to give to this race are going to him. Glad I’m a FL voter!

  • Praying

    Truer words have never been spoken. How refreshing after the four months of apologizing for America that our current POTUS has given us. Is he really going to run? How do I donate to his campaign?

  • penguin2

    For the RNSC not to have faith in this guy is wrong. How is Crist going to justify Obama’s rationalized health care to all of the seniors that live in Florida? He’ll have to dance around that one.

    Would love to see Rubio beat Crist in primary. Hopefully, conservatives from outside Florida will aid him. I would love to see Right win for once over politics!

    Doesn’t Florida have ‘open’ primary? Maybe the Latino vote from both sides of the aisle will vote for him. They tend to be more socially conservative than their American counterparts.

  • LDahl752

    Encouraging, too, to see the standing ovation at the end. Hopefully he has been well-liked in the Florida legislature so those folks can help him in his run for the U.S. Senate. We need many more like him in D.C.

  • tankertodd

    The RNSC is all about power. Not about ideas. Not about principles. It’s all about holding those seats. You know what, at this point it’s better to have firm principles that have broad appeal and lose the seats. (Start with the popular notion that we are a country of equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.) If those ideas are the right ones, we’ll have double those seats back in record time. We’re not interested in power. We’re interested in focusing on what needs to be done in America. The power will follow, as it should – the power comes from the People. Let’s win the people, not the power!

  • Darin_H

    Someone send this over to the NRSC (though they probably wouldn’t ‘get it’ anyways)

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  • Spartan4Life

    With the support of the idiots in the NRSC and the country club establishment behind him, Crist will defeat Rubio, furthering the decline of the GOP.

    Anybody that thinks the GOP has learned any lessons from recent defeats is like Charlie Brown running up to kick the football.

  • http://www.ufcle.com/willis/willis.htm Steven Willis

    Last week, I told some colleagues I support Rubio, but I believed Crist would win the nomination and senate seat.

    Now, I’m not so sure. I believe Rubio will win the senate seat if he wins the nomination. I now believe that is possible.

  • itrytobenice

    And I say it again: 5.

  • Brian Hibbert

    And Crist seems to be trying his best to defeat himself by coming out for the stimulus and other bad Democrat bills.

  • itrytobenice

    Think like RMagnamusR, not Jimmah Crater please. It’s morning in America and for that to be the case, the R party is going back to its conservative roots and will be holding the levers of power. Think positive man!!!

  • Section9

    As the Costs of Obamanation become clear, Crist might not be in such a comfortable position in ten months.

    That was a damn good speech.

    If Marco beats Crist and wins the General, the young man will be superstar. He will go far. Really, really far.

    No. That was a really good speech. I’m really impressed.

  • Dan McLaughlin

    Rubio is a star.

  • scarlos

    and it is Christ’s election to lose. However, Unlike Rubio, he has to be governor for the next year or so, and therefore his lack of commitment to conservative ideals should become more and more evident to GOP primary voters. Rubio should be able to use the time to make up the gap in name-recognition.

    Also, if Obama’s policies prove to be the failure they need to be for a big GOP win in 2010, Christ will be irrevocably tied to them.

    And on top of it all, I’ll take trying over giving up any day.

  • scarlos

    For the best actually–after all, who do you think the Liberals would be voting for between Christ and Rubio?

  • http://applescorneroftheorchard.blogspot.com/ Pomme

    I’ve only donated to 2 candidates in my lifetime (in terms of political activity), Rubio will make it 3. And, I’m happy to do it!

  • asleep06

    I am going to watch this again later.

    If Crist were a decent man, he’d remove himself from the running.

  • redneck_hippie

    and he’s fighting for the right things! Awesome.

  • JadedByPolitics

    to tell him so and if you can donate to him to let him know we are SERIOUS…

    http://marcorubio.com/

    Hey Erick do you think you can get him to come on by and do a diary and engage like McDonnell did?

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    nt

  • JadedByPolitics

    they can sign up for emails and if he gets alot of them it will build his confidence that he can WIN this thing!

  • JadedByPolitics

    they can sign up for emails and if he gets alot of them it will build his confidence that he can WIN this thing!

  • http://impudent.blognation.us/blog kyle8

    nor twit

  • JadedByPolitics

    …

  • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

    though I’d like to see a Governor of FL willing to fight more for Off-shore drilling. He should withdraw and put his support to Rubio…. don’t see it happening… I think Crist is too far along in having decided he likes the sound of “Senator Crist” …. I just hope the 2 of them can behave during the campaign, but I doubt it…. Crist/Rubio discussion [multiple sub-links]