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Drafting Rubio
wsjonline ^ | 06/23/2011 | Stephen Moore

Posted on 06/23/2011 9:04:52 AM PDT by Hawk720

The Republican nomination for president is completely up for grabs, but there's a lot of agreement on who the vice presidential pick should be: Marco Rubio, the freshman senator from Florida. My contacts in the Mitt Romney camp are boasting: "Doesn't a Romney-Rubio ticket sound great?" One senior Romney advisor told me: "We think that could be a dream ticket." Operatives from the pack of other wannabes are thinking ahead to the same Rubio marriage with their candidate.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: backstabberromney; hallucinatingmilt; milt; mittplots; mittschemes; rhymeswithmitt; rinoromney; romneycare; romneydreams; romneyschemes; smellslikemitt; stenchofromney
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1 posted on 06/23/2011 9:04:55 AM PDT by Hawk720
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To: Hawk720

If Romney is on the ticket, it would be more of a nightmare than a dream.


2 posted on 06/23/2011 9:06:47 AM PDT by ObamaMustGo2012 (Obama Must Go In 2012)
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To: ObamaMustGo2012

No Romney period!


3 posted on 06/23/2011 9:07:37 AM PDT by carjic (I've always been taught to respect my elders.... but it's getting harder to find any!)
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To: Hawk720

In before the “Rubio is not a natural born citizen” nonsense.


4 posted on 06/23/2011 9:08:25 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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To: ObamaMustGo2012
Everyone is staying away from Sarah except to ridicule or critisize her.

Say what you will, but the lady comes to town and there's a crowd waiting.

5 posted on 06/23/2011 9:10:23 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Hawk720

So a Mormon and a Cuban walk into a bar...


6 posted on 06/23/2011 9:13:12 AM PDT by mkboyce
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To: FewsOrange

Haha, I made it too! I love Rubio and I think he will have a great political career. However, I would hate for it to be tainted serving as Romney’s VP pick. However, if we did become stuck with Romney, knowing Rubio would come after would take the sting out of it a little, but just a little.


7 posted on 06/23/2011 9:13:27 AM PDT by Mike10542
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To: Hawk720

No Romney. Ever. With anyone.

This shows you that even Romney realizes that he has no chance of winning unless there is someone else on the ticket for whom Republicans might actually vote.

Why the GOP is even considering Romney is beyond me.

Unless all these little “rumors” are publicity actually spread by Romney’s fabulously wealthy campaign itself.


8 posted on 06/23/2011 9:17:53 AM PDT by livius
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To: FewsOrange

Why is it “nonsense”?


9 posted on 06/23/2011 9:19:18 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: FewsOrange

What do you mean nonsense???


10 posted on 06/23/2011 9:23:38 AM PDT by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: Hawk720

Myth needs to go home, he’s nothing more then a socialist RINO. And from what I have read Rubio is not NBC...


11 posted on 06/23/2011 9:23:38 AM PDT by stockpirate (Republicans that vote for socialism, support socialists are socialists.)
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To: Hawk720

Bachmann hardest hit......


12 posted on 06/23/2011 9:24:20 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Hawk720

Geeez, are we so desperate we need to look towards this young kid as presidential material????

Granted- Rubio is one of the best up-and-coming, along with Rand Paul and some others.

But until they kick the old-time GOP geezers out of power they have not ‘proved’ themselves enough to me yet. Let them get a few years under their belt. This is where the fight needs to start, and start SOON. Retire all the old-time GOP RINO’s

(and I am a big RUBIO FAN, nothing against him- but he’s just a kid)


13 posted on 06/23/2011 9:28:38 AM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
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To: Hawk720

Rubio seems like a wonderful man, but he is NOT a natural born citizen. Are we going to change the Constitution before we nominate him?


14 posted on 06/23/2011 9:35:50 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: carjic; ObamaMustGo2012

No Romney period!
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ditto!!!

...as for Rubio, i have nothing but good to say about him.

however, if we are going to draft anyone,
there is one man who is a proven warrior who has served his country, and honesty is way above even Rubio.

Colonel West.


15 posted on 06/23/2011 9:37:44 AM PDT by Elendur (the hope and change i need: Sarah / Colonel West in 2012)
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To: Hawk720

TWO INELIGIBLE NON-NATURAL BORN CITIZENS.

AND ONE WITH THE ALBATROSS OF ROMNEYCARE.

What could possibly be a bigger dream?


16 posted on 06/23/2011 9:38:19 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that conservatives do not know that he’s not a natural born citizen and thus inelegible to be POTUS.


17 posted on 06/23/2011 9:39:08 AM PDT by rhc2000
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To: Hawk720

Rubio tied to Romney would be rotten for Rubio....plus Rubio is NOT ready....and then there’s a little question about his eligibility...whether we want to talk about it or not...it’s there.


18 posted on 06/23/2011 9:39:45 AM PDT by goodnesswins (...both islam and the democrat plantation thrive on poverty)
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To: FewsOrange
In before the “Rubio is not a natural born citizen” nonsense.

Yes, by WND/birther standards he's probably not. In the real world though, Rubio is perfectly eligible to be the VP or President.

Actually the odds are pretty high that whoever wins the GOP nomination will look to ask Rubio to be their running mate. I can certainly see a Palin/Rubio, Bachmann/Rubio or even Perry/Rubio ticket.

19 posted on 06/23/2011 9:48:12 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Hawk720
These dull tits just won't ever quit. "Hey, let's dangle this carrot, see if we get any traction!"

The "Anyone But Palin" machine is revving up and will soon be chugging along under full steam. Expect something on the order of a "Flavor Of The Week" exercise where different combinations of Names That Aren't "Palin" will be flung with excessively manufactured gusto against the walls to see what, if anything, sticks.

At some point over the next eight months, every single Republican candidate and possible Republican candidate will have spent his or her time in the hopper (likely a week or two) as the Misleadia's new all-time favorite-best great next GOP president. Just watch.

And laugh. What a bunch of ninnies.

;-\

20 posted on 06/23/2011 9:54:53 AM PDT by Gargantua ("Palin 2012 ~ Going Oval" ©2010 by Gargantua)
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