Posted on 11/08/2012 4:43:09 PM PST by drewh
Florida Senator Marco Rubio is heading to the first caucus state of Iowa on Nov. 17 to headline an annual campaign fundraising birthday party for Iowa governor Terry Branstad.
Last year all the presidential hopefuls, except for Mitt Romney, came to the party to court the governor and Iowa political dignitaries who attended the bash.
The governor’s spokesperson, Tim Albrecht, a caucus expert himself, told ABC News that Branstad invited Rubio and is “excited he accepted.”
“Sen. Rubio is a star within our party,” Albrecht said. “We were excited Sen. Rubio accepted, and regardless of what happened on Tuesday he was going to come, and it guarantees a successful fundraiser.”
And as for the assumption that this means Rubio is a sure thing for a 2016 presidential bid? Albrecht said the speculation is one of the bonuses of living in the Hawkeye state and he knows Rubio will be a “major draw.”
“I’m sure people will speculate regardless, and if Gov. Romney had won people would speculate about 2020,” Albrecht said. “When you live in Iowa you’re under a microscope.”
Of course the speculation can’t hurt Rubio, or Iowa’s hopes for remaining the first state where voters get to pick a president. Albrecht said they were of course “hoping the (caucus process) would start 6 years from now.”
“But, we expect Iowa to be first once again and Gov. Branstad welcomes any candidates that might be looking ahead to the Iowa caucuses,” Albrecht said.
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Dear God -here we go again. No one is pure enough for some of you. We might as well just stop voting and allow the Demons to have it all with attitudes like this.
Right now - I’d take Rubio over this POS who just stole this election. The rest of you can sit here and whine and whimper that he isn’t pure enough, but he’d sure be a helluva lot better than what we now have.
Some of you are beyond help.
But the nitpickers will find fault and will find he’s not perfect so we throw him away waiting for Mr. or Mrs. Perfect. We must stop this and become united to destroy Democrats—not each other.
Yes, our FRiends demand purity and perfection from our candidate or they’ll stay home and teach everyone a lesson again. Unfortunately, if you ask 10 of our FRiends to define this purity and perfection you’ll get 10 different answers.
Exactly. Too many judge a candidate against their idea of perfection when we’re to be judging one candidate against another. We cannot continue to do this. We need everyone of us to hold together. Obama is arguably the worst president we’ve ever had and he’s in the process of destroying this country, yet we have many who refused to support Romney because he’s not perfect enough. God help America. We are not using the brains God gave us. We refuse to use logic but use emotion.
Why do some of you equate having a hispanic candidate with pandering? IMO, the benefit of a hispanic candidate is just to get hispanics’ attention and get them to actually listen to the conservative message. As long as the person is a solid conservative, what is the problem?
Heads in rectal defilade.
That said, he hasn't flip-flopped yet, so I am hoping for a Rubio/Jindal, Rubio/Cruz or a Rubio/West ticket!!
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Don’t any of these people have real work to do? All politicians seem to do is fly around and campaign all the time. Well, Obama takes lavish vacations and plays a lot of golf, but still there’s no real work there. Who knew that being president or a senator was so easy?
He should have been the VP candidate this year. That would have given him a running start for 2020.
Team Willard goes for a VP who can’t even carry his own state (of course Willard couldn’t carry any of his “three” home states).
If the GOP nominates Rubio it will make my decision easier. I have no use for a political party that goes whoring after ethnic votes, especially for a group that has no interest in assimilating or respecting our laws. To hell with Rubio.
“One just has to peel away the veil of Marco Rubio to revealed who is backing him and what he actually believes beyond the beautiful conservative rhetoric he sprouts.”
He’s Jeb Bush’s sock puppet.
The Republicans have to go after some special group. It could be the dead folks who vote, the college grads with $75k in debt, the environmentalists, women who needs lots of birth control, or Latinos. From the list, I’d say we are better off with the Latinos...at least they want to work, pay taxes, and get ahead in life. The rest of the special interest groups are all losers.
For you dead folks who vote....I didn’t mean any harsh criticism....but it’s not like you are going to pay any additional taxes or social security.
Pandering will not make one dent in the Hispanic gimme voting bloc.
Candidates like Rubio will be looked upon as a Tio Tomas just as black GOP leaders like Clarence Thomas, Col. West, Michael Steele, Condi Rice, Herman Cain, etal, will always be looked at as Uncle Toms by the black bloc majority.
We should not be so quick to cast about for a "winner" without realizing that the millions of South and Central American immigrants are more likely to listen to La Raza before voting than to any conservative GOP endorsers.
However, Rubio's votes, leadership and speeches in the Senate during the next term will get honest evaluation by me and probably countless others, but not through the prism of ethnicity.
Leni
Well, well, well. Now that George P. Bush is also making noises about running we in for some real fun, the battle of the GOP latinos for the title. Who’s the softest on illegal immigration.
Only chance for either to make inroads garnering the hispanic vote is to start staging Mexican wrestling matches. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
its over..they own the machines...cant top that
Ref. #6.
I am not going to waste my time arguing with stupidity.
Educate yourself...Do some reading. This is to include Chester Arthur about which you are so ignorant.
It doesn’t matter at this point. We’re screwed whoever wins. Obey our laws? Since when did this administration care about obeying laws?
Shove your puritanical views.
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