Much of it penny ante, but collectively it could pose a significant distract during the campaign. I have no doubt that the lib media along with the Dems with play it for all it's worth against Rubio.
"1. He Improperly Used a Republican Party Credit Card. In 2010, the Miami Herald and the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) reported that Rubio"
Rubio used it on groceries wine and to repair his minvan although, Rubio said he paid it back. And the related complaint charges about this were tossed a few days ago by Florida Ethics Commission.
If this is the worst the opposition can come up with...
Of course the Atlantic thought those weren't worth looking into.
Why isn't this a crime when the commie 'RATS do it?
Rubio drives a minivan? Gads that there is enough to disqualify him.
His abuse of the corporate credit card is a red flag. It shows moral defectiveness. If you can’t trust the guy with a credit card there are probably other problems. Where I work there are a few f*$#ups who put thier personal crap on the corporate credit card. Often times these same guys/gals get fired for screwing up other things.
Boy, its a good thing that these guys were too busy to look into Barack Obama’s past. We’d all be talking about John McCain’s reelection campaign.
I have my own reasons I prefer to not see Rubio as the GOP VP pick.
I don’t want to see his Florida Senate seat in play, and AT THIS POINT IN TIME I think he is more important to the party, and will be more important to the GOP in 2013-2014 in that Senate seat than he might possibly be as VP for Romney.
Romney’s “Hispanic” vote will be what it will be, based on his policy positions, not on who his VP pick is.
Other’s can help Romney as much as Rubio, in different ways, without taking Rubio out of the Senate where we need every GOP vote we can get.
Marco Rubio: Why He's an Unlikely Veep PickWe can only
While my choice for VP is West, I don’t much care what the Atlantic has to say about anything
Why choose Rubio when he could choose Hillary?
Rubio lost me when he recently voted to continue the government subsidies to big sugar.
Ah, Marco “the illegals can stay anywhere but his house” Rubio, he is like a Democrat, the law can be interpreted and followed according to the way the wind blows upon one’s finger! RINO’s, they are as loving as a dove and as cunning as a cow!
Choosing Rubio, or anyone else who wasn't born here to two citizen parents at the time of his/her birth, for VP will make that group into sworn enemies instead of potential Romney voters.
There won't be anything you or anyone else can say or do to change that fact.
You're right, but the MSM will take the penny ante stuff and magnify it breathlessly, a la the Palin "dress shopping" pseudo-scandal.
I'm sorry, I do like Rubio, but there is too much potential for him to be Palin-ized. It's a shame, but I'm only being realistic.
Paul Ryan IMO is the only good candidate on the short list. This Atlantic article describes Ryan as "a dynamic proponent of unpopular ideas."
Well, good! The public admires a "dynamic" and confident man who sticks to his ideas, even if they're "unpopular." Think Ronald Reagan.
Another good choice, though not on Romney's short list probably, would be Jon Kyl.
I’ve been a Rubio supporter from the beginning, but I read the litany of things the Dems can use against him and even though he said many of them were “errors” and corrected them with repayments, etc..... It’s just too much. Glad this came out now instead of after he was selected for the VP spot.
Stay in the Senate Marco and do a good job, this is not your time.