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ROBERT REICH: Get Ready For A Romney-Rubio Ticket
Business Insider ^ | 01/03/2012 | Robert Reichhhhhhhh

Posted on 01/03/2012 8:14:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Since my New Year’s prediction that Obama would select Hillary Clinton for his running mate in 2012 (and Joe Biden would become Secretary of State), I’ve been swamped by requests for my GOP prediction. Here goes.

You can forget the caucuses and early primaries. Mitt Romney will be the nominee. Republicans may be stupid but the GOP isn’t about to commit suicide. The other candidates are all weighed down by enough baggage to keep a 747 on the tarmac indefinitely.

For his running mate, Romney will choose Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida. Why do I say this?

First, Romney will need a right-winger to calm and woo the Republican right. Tea Partiers are attracted to Rubio – an evangelical Christian committed to reducing taxes and shrinking government. Rubio’s meteoric rise in the Florida House before coming to Congress was based on a string of conservative stances on state issues.

Rubio is also a proven campaigner, handily winning four House elections starting in 2002, and then beating popular incumbent Republican governor Charlie Crist in the 2010 Republican primary — with the help of Tea Partiers.

Moreover, he’s only 40, thereby giving the GOP ticket some youthful vigor.

And he’s Hispanic – a Cuban-American – at a time when the GOP needs to court the Hispanic vote.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2012veep; dncrico; dwarf; ineligibleromney; ineligiblerubio; marcorubio; midget; romney; romney2012; rubio; rubio2012; shrimp
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To: redgolum
"And the NBC requirement isn't really paid much attention to right now anyway. "

Obviously not by yourself.

Do you realize that every politician regardless of party, and every Citizen that serves or has served in the U.S. military, has taken an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America?

141 posted on 01/03/2012 2:04:43 PM PST by Godebert
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To: W. W. SMITH
Proud birther and first time caller.

Thank you W.W.SMITH for taking the colors up the hill one more time, re: the unique qualifications for POTUS established by the founders AND FOR GOOD REASON!

Note: See current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for further enlightenment as to allegiance qualifier necessary to the duties of the POTUS.

Natural born citizen-check.

Specific limitation in determining qualifications to hold only two publicly elected government positions within the entire population of the United States of America, now estimated at 311,800,00. Two! T-W-O! Two! POTUS... and VPOTUS.

Native born citizen-check.
Naturalized citizen-check.

142 posted on 01/03/2012 2:05:48 PM PST by freepersup (Today, we raise our glasses of spirits and mugs of ale high- to Budge.)
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To: Godebert
RUBIO IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

It didn´t take long for the Know Nothing faction to weigh in.

143 posted on 01/03/2012 2:28:42 PM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: Lazamataz

LOL! You have had me laughing all afternoon! I don’t know why really, maybe I’m just in a silly mood today and you’re hitting my funny bone. I like to laugh, so I thank you.


144 posted on 01/03/2012 2:35:23 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: SoldierDad
Based upon my research, Rubio meets the eligibility requirements of the Constitution to be considered eligible for POTUS, and by extension, VP

Correct and we already have the precedent of PRESIDENT Chester A. Arthur whose parents were British citizens when he was born. At the time Arthur was being considered for the VP by James Garfield, Arthur´s many enemies in the Republican Party were desperately attempting to prove Arthur was born outside the USA in an attempt to disqualify him. They were unable to come up with this proof but if the newborn Know Nothing requirement that both parents had to be U.S. Citizens at birth was so ¨obvious¨ as is now claimed then why did the enemies of Arthur fail to even point this out even though it was common knowledge?

145 posted on 01/03/2012 2:37:04 PM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: nesnah; cynwoody
Wow. I’ll be polite and just say you’re completely wrong. I guess, then, you’ll say that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, et al, would think it perfectly OK if the bastard son of George III, pro-created during a clandestine visit to the US, would be eligible for POTUS. OK, I understand your “logic” now. Thanks for clearing that up.

Radical Islamists around the world love to here views like that of cywoody. As far as her saying to rely on the intelligence of voters, that's a big LOL! When the MSM is basically Pravda part 2 and the voters never hear it, that's how we ended up with an Islamic Marxist in the WH

Which do you think is more important to Barry Soetoro? Ramadan, or Christmas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g850SfA2f4w

146 posted on 01/03/2012 2:43:40 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: freepersup
Were Rubio’s parents U.S. citizens at the time of his birth?

Did you ask the same question of the parents of PRESIDENT Chester A. Arthur?

147 posted on 01/03/2012 2:48:39 PM PST by PJ-Comix ("Now I am become Death, destroyer of oysters" ---from the Buffetvad Gita)
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To: Lazamataz

It just dawned on me. You REALLY will hit anything, won’t you? J/K.


148 posted on 01/03/2012 2:48:51 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: SoldierDad

Does anyone on this forum still know how to read.

I said if there was a judge to swear them in! NOTE THE WORD IF FOOL


149 posted on 01/03/2012 2:49:50 PM PST by W. W. SMITH (Obama is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: W. W. SMITH

I see spinning is a real art for you. In the same sentence you wrote “Last Live American” and “if there were a judge to”, which would mean that the judge would be the “Last Live American”, FOOL.


150 posted on 01/03/2012 2:54:10 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
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To: PJ-Comix

Chester A. Arthur did not establish a precedent, there where many, both before him and after, that have gotten away with fraud.


151 posted on 01/03/2012 2:57:45 PM PST by W. W. SMITH (Obama is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: SeekAndFind

The munchkin calls Republicans stupid? This from the dumbest little Dem on the planet?

Also, Rubio isn’t dumb enough to hook up with Romney. He has a great career ahead. Why ruin it now?


152 posted on 01/03/2012 3:00:11 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's now clear the GOP establishment is uncapable of governing and should resign.)
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To: Godebert
What does that have to do with a VP?

If he is not a NBC, he can still be the VP. He can not be the POTUS.

To say that all in the line of succession for the presidency have to be NBC means that all the cabinet appointments, Congress critters, and I forget who else have to be.

If the VP is not able to be the president, it slides down the the next edible holder.

153 posted on 01/03/2012 3:01:58 PM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum

Incorrect. The constitution requires the VP be eligble to become POTUS.

But Rubio is a NBC anyway.


154 posted on 01/03/2012 3:03:19 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's now clear the GOP establishment is uncapable of governing and should resign.)
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To: W. W. SMITH

More nonsense.


155 posted on 01/03/2012 3:05:53 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Gimme that old time fossil fuel.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Silly rabbit... they’re dead. PS I’m going to go out on a limb and make a wild guess that you already knew I didn’t ask them about their citizenship status.


156 posted on 01/03/2012 3:12:36 PM PST by freepersup (Today, we raise our glasses of spirits and mugs of ale high- to Budge.)
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To: PJ-Comix
"It didn´t take long for the Know Nothing faction to weigh in."

BREAKING!!! Georgia Court to Hear Natural Born Citizen Case vs Obama

Read it and weep you filthy traitor.

157 posted on 01/03/2012 3:20:15 PM PST by Godebert
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To: mojitojoe
EPIC SAX GUY, 10 HOURS!

EPIC VIOLIN GUY MEETS EPIC SAX GUY!

JACK MY SWAG, 1 HOUR!

Guarenteed to make your brain into mush.

158 posted on 01/03/2012 3:35:17 PM PST by Lazamataz (Romney is the Pale Obama. That's all.)
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To: Fledermaus

I also tend to think Rubio should wait and not run now. If 0bama wins again he will have a clear path in 2016. Romney might be better off with Pawlenty or McDonnell as his running mate.


159 posted on 01/03/2012 3:42:33 PM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: Lazamataz

Passing Jack My Swag, 1 Hour, on to all of my psyops buds to immediately facilitate as doctrine, straight to field operators. The Taliban are so screwed.

;o)

freepersup


160 posted on 01/03/2012 4:07:24 PM PST by freepersup (Today, we raise our glasses of spirits and mugs of ale high- to Budge.)
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