Posted on 08/12/2012 9:51:46 PM PDT by GR_Jr.
I've been thinking the Romney's campaign staff must feel good about Florida. I would think if they had even the slightest doubt they would win Florida, they would have gone with Marco Rubio as VP instead of Paul Ryan.
Wisconsin would be a great pick up, but they don't necessarily have to win it to win the election. They do, however, have to win Florida, so they must feel real good about Florida to go with Ryan over Rubio. What do you all think? Any Florida Freepers that can fill us in on the mood down there toward 0bama?
I am sure Romney people vetted all VP candidates
Rubio has way too many issues....but the main thing is that Rubio will not bring in Puerto Rican or Mexican-Amer voters. Romney cannot run a Cuban and expect to sway Mex-Amer voters in the West (some Obama-won states are in play)
This “myth of the Hispanic voter” is really “we want Illegal Alien Amnesty”. Any GOPer mentioning Hispanic Vote really means they want Illegals amnesty
Here’s the thing, most hispanics in this country are of Mexican birth/background. Rubio is Cuban and I think that would prevent him being seen as “one of us” by most Hispanics.
I live in Ohio and the unions are going to make it tough for R&R to carry this state. Our governor, Kasich, only won by 2% points in 2010. The left has bludgeoned him unmercifully since.
However, of note is that Paul Ryan attended college here in OH: (From Wikipedia)
Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. On August 11, 2012, Ryan was chosen by Mitt Romney to be his vice presidential running mate,[1] becoming the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 election.[2][3] Born and raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, Ryan earned a B.A. degree from Miami University in Ohio. Following his studies, he worked as an aide to United States Senator Bob Kasten of Wisconsin, as legislative director for Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, and as a speechwriter for former U.S. Representative and 1996 Republican vice presidential nominee Jack Kemp of New York. In 1998, Ryan won election to the United States House of Representatives, succeeding the two-term incumbent, fellow Republican Mark Neumann. He is now in his seventh term.
Agree with your statement.
But, as usual, the GOP's urge to pander is totally mistaken in this case.
Several polls of legal Hispanic voters have confirmed that the majority of this group does NOT favor amnesty -- by about a 60/40 margin.
These are people who have either been here for more than a generation or jumped thru all the hoops to become American citizens legally. They don't much like what was their birthright or what they worked for being given away to illegals.
If the GOP took a firm stance in favor of closing the borders and against amnesty and dilution of American citizenship, they'd probably win a lot more Hispanic votes than a Rubio would net.
On the other hand..
Seniors are a big part of the Florida vote; and, in general, Seniors hate Obamacare. The number one spokesman against Obamacare is...
And, Ryan has done extremely well with seniors in his past races.
ping
And a recent Rasmussen poll identified Ryan's fav/unfav as 52/29 -- among seniors!
Ryan -- nor we -- have nothing to fear from the 'Rats' coming onslaught against him.
“I live in Ohio and the unions are going to make it tough for R&R to carry this state.”
I kind of have the feeling Ohio is lost and will easily go to 0bama bin Biden.......BUT!!!!! If R&R can carry WI and IA they can easily make up for OH.
You mean like the unions and Dems threw all their might at defeating Scott Walker in the Wisconsin recall election?
Another dimension to this train of thought is what is the implication for the senior vote? There are a lot of senior citizens in Florida, and you just KNOW the the democrats are going to try to hammer home the point that Ryan wants to gut medicare and turn old folks into dog food.
Well, it worked here in OH, unfortunately.
Rubio is also a Bush family puppet.
I’m thrilled Romney didn’t pick him.
I believed Rubio when he said he didn’t want the job. The credit card thing is chump change and disappeared immediately, before his election I believe.
Palpable distaste for bambi here in north Florida. Among blacks too.
Husband overheard conversation among black restaurant workers a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta, consensus was they wouldn’t vote for bambi for dogcatcher,if you weren’t gay,illegal or on welfare he doesn’t give a crap.
A liberal friend (Head Start teacher) from Pompano Beach tells me that she’s fed up with Zero (even she has started calling him that) and will vote GOP for the first time ever.
For her it’s the economy and wasting $5 trillion dollars along with the apologizing for America and the bowing and scraping before foreign potentates, she thinks he and the wife creature are ridiculous, anti-American, unqualified, affirmative action hires.
Not that she wouldn’t vote Hillary in a NY minute, lol.
Personally I’m glad Rubio didn’t get the nod, he seems to me to be a bit of an empty suit pretty-boy with ethics issues.
Waffling on illegals and using a party credit card for personal expenses doesn’t sit well with lots of people.
That’s like taking cash from the till and putting it back on Monday, so what if you meant well, it was “tainted money”, ie., taint yours!
Dems do stuff like that.
Besides, no way Cuban voters are going to vote for Zero either, chumming it up with Chavez doesn’t set well with them either, they remember Castro too well.
We lived in SoFlo for 20+ before moving to Arizona. It's been tough on business here the past 3 -4 years. Yet when my wife visited South Florida just last month, she said the area looked like it's taken a worse beating than AZ. Loads of places we used to go to are just gone and there are so many empty or near empty malls it was suprising for her.
Now that's a trademark of the obama regime, but she said it was especially telling for SoFlo. Sad to think, we love Florida and didn't like leaving. Yet it's been a very good move for our family.
I can only imagine that there's an overwhelming number of business owners who are praying for a business friendly administration to take power come next year. If they can last that long.
Rubio IS white; descendant of [white] Spaniards who merely stopped off in Cuba for a few generations.
I'm convinced that they lost a host of support when they went up against the TEA party, and the outrageous lies, smears, snarky “Teabagger” comments, etc, really had an impact on the media's lie that they are even-handed.
So by now either having to carry Obama’s water, or say nothing about his lies, tars them even further. Now, that's not to say the Journ-O-lists won't keep at it—many are ready to go over the cliff with Obama, but some will have to wise up or lose their jobs.
Somewhere, a publisher, senior editor, management of some kind is going to tell the Journ-O-lists that enough is enough, their screwing the bottom line.
In any case, I'll be happy to see that play out this year. I expect a lot of Jour-O-list captains to go down with their ships. Good riddance!
Ironically, I accepted the transfer to here because it was BOOMING compared to our area of central Georgia. It is definitely taking a hit, but at least there is a glimmer of hope of my teenagers getting at least ONE part time job to go on an application.
That’s something I have noticed since moving down here, there is very much an ethnic pride.
Same goes for the Haitian/Jamaican/Virgin Island folks. Do not mix them up. I have learned to detect the proper accent, although before that would just not say a word. Lived in downtown Atlanta long enough to know silence is golden when placed before assumption.
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