A perennial candidate should naturally pick a perennial candidate for VP.
Posted on 04/06/2012 8:01:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Political Insiders in both parties have noticeably cooled on the vice presidential prospects of Marco Rubio.
Democratic and Republican strategists alike said Republican senator from Florida was the strongest GOP option for vice president in this week's National Journal Insiders Poll, but he carried only slim pluralities among both groups. That's a significant drop-off from the same survey taken in October, when 60 percent of Republicans and 65 percent of Democrats and considered him the party's best possible running mate.
Now, just 34 percent of GOP insiders and 28 percent of Democrats say Rubio is the party's best hope for the No. 2 spot on the presidential ticket.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com ...
They all start losing support as soon as they speak up for Romney.
would not be surprised. It always seemed a bit too much of a coincidence to me that just as McCain took a lead and looked like he might actually win the economy totally falls apart on a scale not seen since 1929
hard to believe it was just random and that there weren’t some other factors at work
Portman is basiclly a straight-across-the-board Conservative.
My only irritation with him is he supports amnesty for illegal aliens.
A perennial candidate should naturally pick a perennial candidate for VP.
I’ve been saying that Portman is a likely VP pick for Romney (if, God forbid, he ends up receiving the GOP nomination as seems extremely likely), given that just about all of the other first-tier potential runningmates are Catholic, and Romney needs a Protestant in the ticket so as to assuage the fears of some Protestant voters wary of his Mormonism. Marco Rubio, Bob McDonnell, Paul Ryan, Susana Martinez, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Jeb Bush, Newt Gingrich, Chris Christie ... Catholics all. It’s amazing how we’ve had only one non-Protestant in the 39 GOP presidential tickets since the party was founded in 1854 (Catholic William Miller, Goldwater’s runningmate in 1964), yet this year the party’s presidential nominee will be either a Mormon or a Catholic and nearly all of the best VP candidates are Catholic.
Other than Senator Portman (who is smart, experienced and from bellwether OH, so he would be on anyone’s shortlist), the only top-notch VP candidates who are Protestant are Gov. Scott Walker of WI (who currently is too busy with his recall election to entertain the possibility of running on a presidential ticket, but hopefully that problem will go away soon), former MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty and current SC Gov. Nikki Haley. Of those, Portman seems to me to be the likeliest choice.
Anyone who supports amnesty is not a Conservative but perhaps pretends to be a Conservative. The damage done to this country by the hordes of illegals who roam across the land is obvious to any normal person.
another thing Palin had nothing to do with.
In 2004 around 13 million blacks voted. 88% for Kerry, or around 11.5M of them.
In 2008 17 million blacks voted, an increase in turnout of over 30%. 95% for Obama, or closer to 16.5M of them. So Obama got a 5 million vote boost just from the black vote.
I don’t think Palin had anything to do with that. Among non-blacks McCain won 59M to 53M.
http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2010/11/natalie-portman-loose-wavy-hairstyle.jpg
FAIL.
Nice diversion though. Thank you. :D
Portman’s childhood involved working in the family business. He is basically a fiscal and social conservative who supports the demands of business. He is a Free Trader.
Many businessmen want illegal labor as it is cheap and under the counter. That is why I wouldn’t support Gov.Perry; his major supporters in TX were the building trades, developers, and agriculture sector.
To me, illegal aliens are criminals. It must be seen as a law and order issue, something missing entirely in this campaign, because if we don’t correct this problem ASAP it will destroy this nation.
I bet his rug is still around.
“Rubio keeps saying no, so I gotta believe he knows something we don’t.”
Yeah, he knows he doesnt want the job right now.
You can get more done as a Senator over your career than a VP.
Think Ted Kennedy vs Dan Quayle.
You make an interesting observation about ex-Congressman William Miller, I didn’t know he was Catholic. What I remember reading was that everybody liked him, even his enemies. During the 1964 campaign, he would play cards with members of the D.C. Press Corps and always win, yet they had a ball with him. I wish he had run for statewide office in 1966 or been appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1968, but perhaps the Goldwater connection would have hurt in New York.
His son and namesake ran for Congress in the early 1990’s unsuccessfully. He currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, one of many transplanted Yankees there.
Enthusiam waned for Rubio after he confirmed everyone’s suspicion that he was little more than a RINO when the news came out he was working on another Amnesty bill.
So many RINOS, so many RINO supporters, so many people with their heads in the sand.
Here are Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rob Portman’s positions on some very important issues:
Please go to this site: http://www.ontheissues.org/oh/rob_portman.htm
Please read Portman’s positions on Immigration — he is for WIDE OPEN borders.
Here more info on his immigration views: http://www.numbersusa.com/content/my/congress/623/reportcard/CAREER/
Portman voted in favor of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 — read about the Act here: http://www.heritage.org/research/education/bg1775.cfm
These statements are taken from the Health Care section of http://www.ontheissues.org/oh/rob_portman.htm: Voted YES on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. (Nov 2003) He voted NO on allowing reimportation of prescription drugs. (Jul 2003)
Portman is a free trader like Bush.
This statement is taken from the Energy and Oil section of http://www.ontheissues.org/oh/rob_portman.htm: He voted YES on starting implementation of Kyoto Protocol. (Jun 2000)
These statements are from the Foreign Policy section of http://www.ontheissues.org/oh/rob_portman.htm: Voted NO on keeping Cuba travel ban until political prisoners released. (Jul 2001) He voted YES on Permanent Normal Trade Relations with China. (May 2000)
Please read the Free Trade section.
IMHO, Portman is a high priest of the economic theocracy that places the needs of multinational corporations over the needs of AMERICANS. If the Chinese could vote, he would win by a landslide.
Portman is a RINO...not a Conservative.
change who Romney is. Unreal, that we are about to go in the
general with such a weak person representing the party. If I
wanted to vote for a democrat, there's a party for such.
Oh, boy. There goes the women’s vote.
Portman has been vetted, He is a mini-Romney with the same popular touch.
Rubio made a major misstep---endorsing Romney.
That cost him his conservative base.
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