You know all those people who many Fiscal Conservatives have blamed for the global financial crisis because they took out mortgages and then did not pay for them?  Or worse yet, they are still living in the house for free while refusing to pay the mortgage, and running up other personal debts on credit cards while the bank winds it’s way through an expensive and drawn out foreclosure proceeding?

Well let’s ask Marco Rubio - Florida’s Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, an avowed Fiscal Conservative, and political darling of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) what he thinks about all of this; because Rubio joined the ranks of such people, and stopped paying a mortgage he has on a house in Florida.  Of course, when news of the pending foreclosure recently surfaced, the past-due mortgage payments were miraculously brought current – including payment of all penalties and the banks legal fees – and the house was put up for sale. 

Maybe Rubio just happened to read the conservativefocus.com website’s post called ”Owners Stop Paying Mortgage . . And Stop Fretting About It?  Here’s what a mortgage expert had to say on the issue:

“From the lenders’ standpoint, people who stay in their homes without paying the mortgage or actively trying to work out some other solution, like selling it, are “milking the process.”

Oh, but it doesn’t just end there.  It also appears that Rubio likes to use his Florida Republican Party credit card for personal expenses – which is part of an IRS criminal probe into unlawful political expenditure reports filed by Florida Republicans.  But of course, that particular little “misunderstanding” was also miraculously paid up once it was discovered by the IRS. 

Furthermore, when he sets up Conservative political actions committees (PAC’s) to raise campaign money for other candidates, and then uses most of the money to pay his relatives as “employees” of the PAC’s, that can also be explained away as just paying employees to do their job.  So was the PAC established primarily to raise campaign funds, or as a “slush fund” to help his family pay their bills?  Wonder what the Federal Election Commission might have to say about that?  And how quick will that money be paid back to political donors when it also becomes a problem?

If you are Marco Rubio, being a Fiscal Conservative means only being critical of the spending habits of President Obama and Democrats – and not yourself.