Quote:Rubio's the only sensible one of the bunch, but I can't get behind someone who insists that bulk data collection is a good thing, and that there being "by and large" a lack of "evidence of mass abuse" (his words, not mine) makes spying on Americans justifiable. It's essentially an admission on his part that it's being misused, he knows it's being misused, but no one's told him exactly how or on what scale it's being misused.

 

I'd pick Cruz out of that bunch. I mean, let's get this straight: I hate Ted Cruz's platform. I hate it. I hate his warhawk mentality, I hate his being forty years behind the times on civil rights, I hate his thinking that he can tell two people not to be together, or tell a woman what she can and can't do with her own body, and I hate his idiotic immigration policies. All that said, I believe he's more likely to scale back the mass spying on American citizens than any other candidate in the Republican field. Trump will have NSA malware scouring every corner of our personal electronic devices under the argument that if it can be connected to on the internet, the right to privacy does not apply. Rubio won't even try to be sneaky about it--he'll just drop new NSA facilities from sea to shining sea and tell us that, by and large, there's no evidence to suggest that their facilities are being used for anything other than homeland security on a large scale.

 

I mean, if it came down to Clinton or Cruz, lots of things go in the toilet for me, but Cruz goes on my ballot. Hillary was part of the team that helped Obama build the NSA data collection centers.

 

I hate Cruz warkhawkish foreign policy my self and admit his Goldman Sachs ties concerns me but well I just posted a Trump tirade and Rubio is anti-privacy neo-con that makes Bush look like a saint. I'd expect a Rubio administration to push for crap like National ID cards, expanding the NSA, expanding federal reach on state matters, he's an Authoritarian to the core. 

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