Posted on 04/14/2012 8:32:14 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome
In an interview with CNN today, Marco Rubio said in no uncertain terms that he’s not going to be the vice president.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, widely speculated to be a top pick for the Republican presidential running mate, once again firmly denied he would join the GOP ticket.
“I’m not going to be the vice president,” Rubio said Friday in an interview with CNN en Español’s Ismael Cala. “I’m not.”
We have two options. We can assume that Rubio meant to imply he wouldn’t join the 2012 GOP ticket under any circumstances — OR — we can parse his words. He didn’t say he wouldn’t join the 2012 GOP ticket, after all. He said he’s not going to be the vice president. Maybe that means he’s still open to run with Mitt Romney — but he doesn’t think they would win.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Are we doing identity politics now?
FWIW, I voted for Newt in the AZ primary. I got an email from his campaign recently, asking for financial help. I haven't yet taken the step of donating to what by all appearances at this point is a hopelessly lost cause, but I can't quite bring myself to permanently delete the message either.
Well, there you go. I guess I'll have to see if I can scare up a few bucks to send his way.
We'll hear this up until the point Romney taps him and then we'll hear the "After careful consideration and discussion with my family, I've decided to do what is best for my party and, most importantly, my country..." speech and he'll accept the nomination.
Not criticizing. This is just how it's done.
At what point do you accept that Newt will not be the Republican nominee? Next week? After Tampa? November? January 21st? When?
Just curious.
If by "we" you mean "me" the answer is absolutely not. My posted quote was from the article, which itself deemed the quote worthy of repeating.
Without knowing additional details as to the thrust of your comment, I can't respond much more cogently. If you mean that the GOP-e is getting into identity politics, then yes, they absolutely are, IMO.
From the article: "We have two options."
Perhaps there is a third option that would explain why he's so convinced that he won't be vice president. . . Word-parsing, identity-politicking Third Option Ping.
“We’ll hear this up until the point Romney taps him and then we’ll hear the “After careful consideration and discussion with my family, I’ve decided to do what is best for my party and, most importantly, my country...” speech and he’ll accept the nomination.”
This. I think it was Karl Rove on O’Reilly said,”No matter what any of them say when the actual offer is made you do not turn down a chance to be VPOTUS”.
I voted for him in Mississippi, too.
I’ve donated three times, but not since Santorum dropped out and I’m not sure I’m going to again.
Like you, I’m still thinking about it, because money is very tight in my household.
God bless and Keep you.
“We’ll hear this up until the point Romney taps him and then we’ll hear the “After careful consideration and discussion with my family, I’ve decided to do what is best for my party and, most importantly, my country...” speech and he’ll accept the nomination.”
This. I think it was Karl Rove on O’Reilly said,”No matter what any of them say when the actual offer is made you do not turn down a chance to be VPOTUS”.
Sheeeesh. After the convention.
Fortunately for Marco Rubio, nobody outside of the consistently losing birther circus is buying any of this crap.
I was referring to the GOP, not you personally. Soon there will be no difference between the parties at all.
Fair enough. I guess between now and Tampa Mitt Romney could get arrested with a mountain of cocaine and a couple of underage hookers. That's the only roadmap to victory I'm seeing for Newt Gingrich right now.
Hey, if something like that could go down with a dozen Secret Service agents, anything can happen.
/s
We never know what God has in store for any of us, including Romney and Newt Gingrich. We’re all born with free will. Many times the acts and actions of others impact many others, both good and bad.
We also never know when God might call us home, so to speak. Anything can happen between now and the convention.
I trust in Him. I pray a lot for others and for strength and resolve. I’m also praying for Divine Intervention to help us save our Republic.
Be well, Drew68!
Maybe Rubio is smart enough to know the kind of trouble this would cause. He has been questioned about the citizenship of his parents many times before and unlike those who choose to ignore the requirements of the Constitution, he’s not stupid.
Sorry, EEGator, my post #18 above was meant for Drew68.
Is that true? I never knew that Rubio was a Mormon! Not that it make the least difference to me!!!
My problems with Romney is NOT that he is Mormon, it's that he's got too many liberal skeletons in his MA closet!!!
I was confused. :)
I think he went to a Mormon church for 3 years or so as a child. I believe he is Catholic now.
You too, Onyx.
I will tell you this:
A.) I fully belive Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee.
Then again...
B.) Last August I believed Rick Perry would barnstorm his way to Tampa, crushing all contenders...
C.) In 2007, I fully believed the election would be between Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani and...
D.) In 2008, I believed wholeheartedly that this country would never elect someone named "Hussein" as president.
So my track record at predicting electoral outcomes ain't so good as of lately.
Good. We don’t want amnesty. We will not tolerate amnesty. Get lost.
I think Rubio is Catholic...there is a new Pub congresscritter from Idaho...who beat that awful Walt minnick....who is Mormon but is also hispanic...Raul Labrador....
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705365888/Rove-Absolutely-Mormon-can-be-US-president.html
Rove said the exhaustive examination of Romney’s membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints was unnerving for Rove, who has strong ties to Utah. Rove, who is not a member of the LDS Church, graduated from Olympus High School and attended the University of Utah.
“Well, bye.”
Well then somebody better get on the horn to Savage and he had a guest on his show spreading BS about Marco Rubio!!! I’m not a regular listener but I caught this the other night as I was drifting off to sleep and it woke me right up!!!
Rubio was born in the United States and is therefor a citizen by birth and eligible to be President.
“Identity politics” in a Rubio vs. Obama contest would have been incredibly interesting.
True. I believe there are more Hispanics than blacks.
he’s only saying this because he told Bill O’Reilly he wouldn’t be VP...
Maybe he isn’t elegible.........;^)
Not going to be VP?? Good call because it appears from his bio that since his parents became naturalized citizens after he was born in the US, he is not “natural born” and thus just as unqualified to hold the office of President as BHO is.
True. Black population is about 13-14%, Hispanic/Latino population is about 19-29%.........
He’s been doing it.
LOL. I hate to this, but you’re looking better this time for improving your record, but..... maybe he can’t buy the nomination.
I’m praying!!!
Well, as I've said before, I'd bet my next paycheck that Romney gets the nomination.
...and I'd also be perfectly happy if a thousand Freepers posted "Eat crow, Drew68 you POS!" as Newt Gingrich walked away victorious in Tampa.
Sometimes it's good to be wrong.
ROTFLMYromneyOFF
The underlined above, would be an answer to my prayers. At least, one of my prayers.
Unfortunately no one is listening to what is the truth.
Obama, Bobbie jindal, rubio are not eligible to be President or VP
More than likely after Texas. And it’s not just about Newt being the nominee; it’s about Mitt not hitting 1144.
That’s because too much was made in that other thread about a hypothetical. I guess any defense of the ABO stance seemed suspect given my sign up date. I still think we have a shot.
That was the thrust of my "Third Option" comment in #7.
What gives with suggestion after suggestion of prospective candidates/running mates who have eligibility issues?
We need a SCOTUS ruling to clear up the doubts. So far, the only definition not in doubt, as handed down by SCOTUS as to what constitutes a NBC is found in the Minor v Happersett case.
Glad he won’t be our vice president.
It may be, WhiskeyX, that the Republican ‘leadership’ would like Rubio in the race to guarantee that those leaders won't be confronted with their violation of their oaths (most are attorney's - officers of the court), should we have a new attorney general. They covered for McCain, when even McCaskill and Obama couldn't get their ‘‘Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act’’, S.2678, February 2008, passed. It was patently a quid pro quo - we won't ask about Obama if you stop your lawyers from explaining why McCain is ineligible, which they had been doing since about 2000.
It is sickening, but revealing, to see in how little esteem Republican politicians and party operatives hold the Constitution and Supreme Court. Rubio could become a hero if he were actually to explain why he isn't running; but he won't. Too many careers will be destroyed if the public becomes informed that while the left executed the agitprop, which they do much better than Republicans, Republicans were full party to deception. The left used ridicule and the bait of hidden documents to keep citizens, few of whom have read The Constitution critically, ignorant about the meaning of natural born citizen, which, like every other term in the Constitution, is not defined in the Constitution itself, but by the common language and common-law familiar to its framers. That way, as words morph, change their meanings, the intentions of the framers are not lost.
There are probably over a hundred justices who never questioned the use of “born in the country to parents who were its citizens”, which had been used in dozens of Supreme Court decisions before Chief Justice Waite made it precedent, including all nine justices who turned the common law (just what you would assume it to be) into positive law, or precedent, in Minor v. Happersett, 88 US 162. They all agreed with the Chief Justice Morrison Waite who said "it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens," "It was never doubted" until it became politically expedient to pretend those words were never written. Soros' acolytes made it easier to not notice those words by scrubbing the largest public archives of Supreme Court decisions, at justia.com, of citations to Minor v. Happersett, so that curious citizens and law students executing a search will not be returned pointers to Minor v. Happersett. The KGB could not have managed information more skillfully.
Rubio was born in 1971. His parents were naturalized in 1975. Rubio is a dual US-Cuban citizen.
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