So the New Republican Strategy is Going to be Outright, Shameless Pandering

[Walt]

to youth and minority voters?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Marco Rubio

It's no secret that Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is a hip-hop fan--he's known to blast Snoop Dogg during long car rides on the campaign trail--but now he's revealed his rap favorites.

In an interview with GQ Magazine, Rubio said his three top rap songs are "Straight Outta Compton" by N.W.A, "Killuminati" by Tupac and Eminem's "Lose Yourself."

"The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem," Rubio told GQ. "He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on."

 

[StatUS]

Eminem is deep

Rethugs placing their faith in this guy

 

[villain]

 

[That Singer Guy...]

he shouldn't have mentioned Eminem, every bit of his hiphop credibility went straight into the garbage with that comment.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

to youth and minority voters?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Marco Rubio

It's no secret that Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is a hip-hop fan--he's known to blast Snoop Dogg during long car rides on the campaign trail--but now he's revealed his rap favorites.

In an interview with GQ Magazine, Rubio said his three top rap songs are "Straight Outta Compton" by N.W.A, "Killuminati" by Tupac and Eminem's "Lose Yourself."

"The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem," Rubio told GQ. "He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on."

He needs to get these dudes on his street team.

 

[Slystallion]

He's barely 40 from Florida and he's not supposed to be aware or like any form of pop culture? More than likely rolling stone asked him...

Its not like bob dole gave this answer that would be shocking and funny. A gen x'er talking about hip hop is not shocking

 

[Prince Akeem]

He needs to get these dudes on his street team.

The Young Cons - Obama, Reid, Pelosi - YouTube

Could only make it though 39 seconds of that before I had to stop.

 

[Walt]

He needs to get these dudes on his street team.

The Young Cons - Obama, Reid, Pelosi - YouTube

The one dude hit the doubletime flow... and they were kind enough to provide subtitles.



*punts into bushes*

 

[Pool_Shark]

Imagine if Obama said Eminem was his favorite rapper.

Bill, Rush, and Hannity would have a field day quoting Kim and all the other disgusting things Slim raps about.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

What the actual fukk is wrong with these idiots??? Do they not realize that it's not just "token Black/Mexican/Asian/young/female" that is supposed to get votes? I don't care if they straight up nominate a Latino as a presidential candidate!

Here's what I have to say to this sheeit:

• What are you going to do for the working class?
• What are you going to do to make education more accessible?
• What are you going to do for science in this country?
• What do you think about obsolete industries like the oil industry, the military industrial complex, coal, and other industries that need to be thrown into the bushes.
• You do realize that the music you pretend to love so much is about being anti-authoritarian and that the Republican party is all about harsh law enforcement and encouraging an oligarchy, right?
• Why, after these extremely obvious questions that we all know the answers to, should I simply vote for you for having a Spanish surname?

shyt is straight up PANDERING. It's goddamned insulting and I'm not going to vote for a fukking sellout just because they have brown skin. I'm married more to my ideas than my ethnicity, and I refuse to pledge any kind of political allegiance to someone who wants to throw other human being into the bushes for making less than $250,000 a year!

Republican theory is based on the idea that authority is a good thing despite the fact that they love to repeat the words "freedom" and "liberty" so damn much. They think that freedom means that the rich and powerful to take as much advantage of people less fortunate than them as possible and killing non-whites overseas, while not allowing people to have class mobility, education, dominion over our own bodies, and many other things.

In case some of you were wondering... I poke around in the Rave/EDM forums because I really like that music, and they hate the conservative ideology too. Maybe it's the mind-expanding drugs that make you see the best in life and everyone else? Maybe it's the fact that they're from educated (albeit knowingly slightly spoiled) families and developed a sense of empathy as a result? Maybe the fact may are college students? In any case the heavily liberal community there that seems to be hitting a peak in popularity would be really insulted if one of these cats tried to make references to their music, too.

"I wub-wub-wub living in reality and being liberal as a result." Got a good laugh out of that crowd.

 

[theworldismine13]

I'm not defending it but to be fair how is this any different than democrats and he's been talking like this, he was name dropping nicki minaj a few months ago and saying how much he likes her

 

[I_Got_Da_Burna]

Oh shyt Rubio likes NWA?

I'm gonna vote for him now!

 

[Shogun]

The fact that I once considered myself a republican is depressing. these fukken guys

 

[Walt]

I'm not defending it but to be fair how is this any different than democrats and he's been talking like this, he was name dropping nicki minaj a few months ago and saying how much he likes her

Consistent, measured pandering within the framework of at least profession of sympathy and concern vs. a complete about face on behalf of a party that suddenly realized "holy shyt, we can't win without these motherfukkers anymore." Also, NWA is a comically extreme choice, they aren't like Jay or Minaj, who are both transcendent pop culture figures - they made "fukk the police" for God's sake, among many other songs that will be hard to spin in a positive way as far as the mainstream goes. Listing them as a favorite band is plain fukking stupid.

 

[superunknown23]

They really think that Rubio will bring them the latino vote?
Mexicans hate his Cuban ass and minorities see thru that kind of tokenism.
Their problem is the message, not the candidates. Putting up a brown face to spew the same bullshyt won't change squat.