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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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1 posted on 01/03/2012 8:14:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s nice, but VPs don’t do anything!


2 posted on 01/03/2012 8:16:18 AM PST by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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To: LibFreeUSA
RUBIO IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
3 posted on 01/03/2012 8:17:28 AM PST by Godebert
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To: LibFreeUSA

Doesn’t a VP have to meet the same Natural Born criteria as the P?


4 posted on 01/03/2012 8:18:20 AM PST by Ingtar (Newt (four more for Obama) & Mitt (Obamacare) - what wonderful choices!)
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To: SeekAndFind
For his running mate, Romney will choose Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida. Why do I say this?

Why do you say this? Because you pulled it out of your ear? Not because you actually know or would have any clue.

5 posted on 01/03/2012 8:19:14 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Ingtar
Doesn’t a VP have to meet the same Natural Born criteria as the P?

Only if the P or VP is not a Democrat!

6 posted on 01/03/2012 8:20:18 AM PST by TexasRedeye (Eschew obfuscation)
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To: SeekAndFind

Was anxiously awaiting the opinion of communist dwarves on this.

Now I know.


7 posted on 01/03/2012 8:21:59 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: SeekAndFind
Robert Reichhhhhhhh being swamped by requests for his predictions?

Hmmmmm?

Looks like BS.

Smells like BS.

Tastes like BS.

Good thing we didn't step in it.

(Anybody remember that old Cheech and Chong routine?)

8 posted on 01/03/2012 8:23:59 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: sam_paine

Rubio is a good VP choice, to run with Newt Gingrich.


9 posted on 01/03/2012 8:24:15 AM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: SeekAndFind
Reich should just stay in his tree and make the cookies.

He has zero insight and the crap he makes up swings wildly between boring and nonsensical.

10 posted on 01/03/2012 8:24:15 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What I’ve always wondered about Reich is how did they possibly fit all that excrement in such a tiny container?


11 posted on 01/03/2012 8:24:54 AM PST by Yankee (ANNOY THE RNC AND THE MEDIA: NOMINATE NEWT GINGRICH!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Susana Martinez may be a better pick. Too bad she has only been Governor of New Mexico for a year.


12 posted on 01/03/2012 8:25:58 AM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill
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To: SeekAndFind

Rubio does nothing for the “Hispanic vote”, because Mexican-American elites despise him, in case you haven’t followed the Univision Wars.


13 posted on 01/03/2012 8:26:17 AM PST by montag813
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To: SeekAndFind
Hey Robert Reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-ah!

Nobody cares what you think.

14 posted on 01/03/2012 8:28:33 AM PST by JaguarXKE
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To: SeekAndFind

Shut up Shorty, no one’s listening. Go ruin someone else’s economy.


15 posted on 01/03/2012 8:29:09 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: NKP_Vet
"Rubio is a good VP choice, to run with Newt Gingrich."

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio Responds To Question If He’s Constitutionally Eligible To Be President

16 posted on 01/03/2012 8:29:34 AM PST by Godebert
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To: JaguarXKE
Right on that; OTOH; that would be the ONLY upside to his candidacy.
17 posted on 01/03/2012 8:30:18 AM PST by cricket (/get the 'Occupier' out of our White House!/ and Newt 'in'. . .and it is NOT just the economy!)
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THEY’RE NOT DONATING MONTHLY!


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18 posted on 01/03/2012 8:36:19 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: SeekAndFind

So the orders have gone out, Rubio must be the VP pick. That way Republicans can’t say a thing about that pesky “natural born citizen” problem. Those in control of the Democrat/Republican party have the problem firmly in hand.


19 posted on 01/03/2012 8:37:47 AM PST by W. W. SMITH (Obama is an instrument of enslavement)
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To: SeekAndFind
what qualifies reich to make political commentary and predictions? Has he been tweeting with megan mccain?
20 posted on 01/03/2012 8:39:47 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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