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Harris-Perry guest: ‘Underlying civil war’ will ‘break out’ among GOP in 2016

On MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry on Sunday, the host “begged for forgiveness” for already beginning speculation on the 2016 GOP race for president as her roundtable of guests speculated on which Republicans would take a shot at the open seat. Harris-Perry threw out a range of possibilities, from second-timers like Rick…

Tricia Rose: ‘Gangster’ GOP influenced Rubio’s hip-hop picks

Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) choices for his favorite hip-hop tracks shouldn’t come as a surprise, Current TV contributor Tricia Rose said Tuesday; after all, his party helped create them. In the same interview where he told GQ Magazine, “I’m not a scientist, man,” statement, the budding Republican presidential candidate said…

Fischer on Rubio: ‘Eyewitness account’ in Bible proves Earth created in 7 days

Bryan Fischer, the director of issues analysis of the conservative fundamentalist American Family Association, says that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was not wrong for suggesting that the Earth was created in seven days because the only “eyewitness account” is in the Bible. Answers in Genesis “researcher” Dr. Terry Mortenson told…

Jeb Bush Jr. claims Rubio is ‘pro-science’ after ‘Earth was created in 7 days’ remark

Jeb Bush Jr., the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), on Tuesday defended Sen. Marco Rubio as “pro-science” after the Florida Republican said he was not sure if the Earth was created in seven actual days because “it’s one of the great mysteries.” “I’m not a scientist, man,”…

Rubio: Maybe Earth was created in 7 days because ‘I’m not a scientist, man’

Tea party-backed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says that he’s not sure people will ever know if the Earth was created by God in just seven days because “it’s one of the great mysteries.” In an interview published in the December issue of GQ magazine, Michael Hainey asked the potential 2016…

Marco Rubio Helps Demonstrate that the GOP Simply Opposes Paying Women Fairly

Last week, I wrote a post arguing that the angry misogyny with which conservatives use in a (futile) effort to silence questions about equal pay suggests that, protests aside, they really just don’t think women should make as much money as men. Marco Rubio up and volunteered to prove my…

Rubio defends Romney: Lilly Ledbetter Act ‘nothing but an effort to help trial lawyers’

Tea party-backed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Sunday defended Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s refusal to say whether he would sign the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act by suggesting that the law was not really about equal pay. Romney was widely mocked last week after he told a questionable story…

Marco Rubio v Julian Castro: the battle for 50 million Hispanic votes

Democrat mayor and Republican senator symbolise the divide between left and right in the Hispanic demographic Both of them have a Spanish-sounding surname. Both have a moving story of poor parents coming to America for a better life. And both recently spoke to the American people from a primetime slot…

Heckler tells Rubio: Stop whoring out to big money interests

During a speech to Florida delegates on Tuesday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) was heckled numerous times by anti-corporate protesters. “We demand that the GOP stop whoring themselves out to the big money interests that are raping this planet and trying to squeeze every last dime out of the working class,”…

Republican VP hopefuls audition while Romney tours overseas

With Mitt Romney overseas on a gaffe-ridden jaunt, his would-be deputies are taking up the campaigning slack back at home, jockeying for position as they press the flesh on the campaign trail. Tim Pawlenty, Rob Portman, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio – all mentioned to a greater or lesser degree…

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