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Senator Marco Rubio criticized by fellow Republican Senator David Vitter on Immigration Reform

Louisiana Senator David Vitter. An official ph...

Louisiana Senator David Vitter. An official photograph from his Senate website (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On Laura Ingraham’s radio show, Senator David Vitter (R-LA) called out Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) on the latter’s support of the Bipartisan Framework for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.  In doing so, Sen. Vitter has identified himself as one of the few vestigial remnants within the old Republican Party that cannot follow the simple math lesson taught by the recent Presidential Election:

Anti-Immigration Reform Platform=less than 40% of the Latino vote, where >40% of the Latino vote=White House.  

Or put more simply:

Anti-Immigration Reform Platform=Bad

While I do agree that any Republican primary could still be won by an Anti-IR candidate, we have clearly witnessed that it is simply not possible for said candidate to “reset” or “restate” this position in time to win the Presidential Election

Excerpt from the radio show:

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