Posted on 03/22/2012 8:24:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
If Romney does end up being the nominee, I would prefer that he took down a fellow RINO with him, instead of one of our rising stars.
That way we could get rid of two with one swat.
Maybe we could get Romney to pick Lindsey Graham as his VP!
Because Bush endorses him.
(my two cents)
LLS
Romney won five primaries with the following percentages:
Idaho 61.6%
Illinois 46.7%
Hawaii 44.5%
Wyoming 44.2%
Arkansas 32.2%
Santorum also won five, with 32.8-51.2%
Gingrich won one with 47.2%.
I don’t see that as a clear win by Romney. If they were being honest, they would admit that the only clear win is when it essentially would not matter whether the other candidates stayed in an honest race, and Romney is nowhere near that level. In simple terms, conservatives don’t like him, and he is not growing on us. It’s time for Newt, Rick, and Ron to keep doing their best. I’m not optimistic about a convention in which Romney doesn’t have a first round win, but I’m a whole lot more optimistic about that than one in which he has a lock on the nomination to start.
RE: an open borders progressive with far more in common with Scott Brown than Ronaldo Magnus.
We ought to remind ourselves that Ronaldo Magnus gave us one of the most EXPANSIVE amnesty programs in decades.
I am out... I no longer am a member of the national republican party... only my state party.
LLS
Sorry, Jeb. Mr. Rubio is a not natural born ciizen, therefore ineligible to be President, which a Vice President must be.
But then, you’re a Bush, so who needs the Constitution.
Why don’t you have another meeting with Obama and your Dad in the Oval Office, and bring your mom this time?
Reagan also cut and ran from Lebanon... he was not perfect... but none of these politicians today could lick the dirt from his boots. rubio does not have any Reagan within him.
LLS
I’m looking the other direction. When Romney wins, we do NOT want to dilute the senate by one conservative vote.
Bush figures if he gets Rubio out of the way, he can run for Senate I guess.
There are those who think to be a natural born citizen one must be born in the USA or territories of parents who were U.S. citizens.
AND-
There are those who think one must be born a citizen under U.S. law (which should always reflect our best understanding of natural law) to be a natural born citizen.
The U.S. Constitution only contemplates two types of U.S. citizens going forward, those that are natural born - and those that must be “naturalized” into that state of allegiance.
Based upon that the only type of U.S. citizen excluded by Article II section 1 from the Presidency (and thus the Vice-Presidency) would be naturalized U.S. citizens.
Rubio was not naturalized.
He was born a citizen of these United States according to U.S. law.
I agree that Jindal would be an ideal vp...but I think he’d be an even better president.
On Laura Ingraham this AM, Major Garrett said this was Jeb Bush’s way of saying, “Do Not put Santorum on the ticket!”
Didn’t Rubio endorse Mittens in the FLA primary?
Quid pro quo on the endorsement, Jeb?
Because of JB’s endorsement?
You must have read “Family of Secrets”. Smart move.
Boob bait for Bubbas.
It’s 2008 all over again. The establishment knows they have foisted a turd on the base and now they want to polish it for us by adding a Veep with conservative credentials.
Same result, a blow-out beating will become a closer loss. But a loss nonetheless.
No sale this time.
I’ve been calling Jeb Mrs. Bush because he looks like his mother and he’s a pansy RINO. For some reason, the establishment have turned him into some kind of a kingmaker, whose endorsement means something. It doesn’t. I can’t imagine what type of small coterie that will now be moved to action because Jeb Bush has made a completely predictable and meaningless endorsement.
Romney and the Republicans will enjoy a landslide victory if Rubio is selected as the VP.
There is no choice other than Rubio.
“Jeb Bush: Make Rubio the VP nominee”
First Jebbie backs Willard for Prez., now Rubio for VP.
Are the Bushes still trying to drive immigration policy? Rubio is weak on immigration, like Jebbie, Jorge, and probably the rest of the family.
I like Rubio on budget issues. On immigration, he’s an establishment/Chamber of Commerce mouthpiece—part of the problem, not the solution. We can do better.
And the Bushes could do us a big favor by quitting the lectures on whom we should support and how soon we should wrap up the nominating process and just crawl under their rocks and shut up.
I also find it interesting that Morrissey is another one falling for the perennial race/ethnicity/gender pandering. Note how all his VP speculations (Rubio, Jindal, Haley) are minorities. Hey, Ed: I don’t care where their ancestors hailed from; give me the most conservative of them and I’ll back them. Let the Dims do the pandering. I’m sick of it.
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