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Insiders Poll: Enthusiasm Wanes for Rubio as VP Pick; Rob Portman Rising
National Journal ^ | 04/06/2012 | Alex Roarty and Peter Bell

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.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: marcorubio; robportman; rubio; vp
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To: RobbyS
Portman has been vetted, He is a mini-Romney with the same popular touch.

Although I hold country-club republicans in the highest disdain, I kinda like Portman.

But, I'll go for Josh Mandell anyday.

41 posted on 04/06/2012 11:17:05 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: Rudder

I’ve only seen Portman on Utube, and I must say that while he is well spoken, that when he goes informal, by taking his tie off, he looks a bit like a businessman who has been mugged.


42 posted on 04/06/2012 11:46:25 PM PDT by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: duffee

“They all start losing support as soon as they speak up for Romney.”

Yes they do. For the duration.


43 posted on 04/06/2012 11:50:12 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to support Willard. He is what he is.)
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To: SoConPubbie

“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.”

I am not sure there really are that many. I think they just have louder speakers. Especially as the GOP capsizes to the left, they have begun to ape leftist tactics, the loudest bullhorns being one of them.


44 posted on 04/06/2012 11:53:14 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (I'm not willing to light my hair on fire to support Willard. He is what he is.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Portman is an establishment republican. He’s my former congressman, and he was once a fairly staunch conservative, but that ended when he was elevated to good-ole-boy status.

I will not support a Romeny/Anybody ticket, and I will work for their defeat.

Any pro-life conservative who supports Romney is a hypocrite.


45 posted on 04/07/2012 3:30:23 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: SeekAndFind
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.

I have a feeling that as time passes, Rubio will be losing more votes from the Right and gaining a whole lot from the Left....

46 posted on 04/07/2012 3:41:28 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: xzins

Obama is pleased w you.


47 posted on 04/07/2012 3:46:50 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Tell me that you believe Romney is a pro-life, pro-natural marriage, pro-gun, pro-small government conservative.

I just want to see you write it.


48 posted on 04/07/2012 3:51:33 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: xzins

I am ABO. Mittens stinks, but it is not about him. It’s about getting rid of the communist ghetto slum Marxist street punk Obama.


49 posted on 04/07/2012 3:54:55 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote
Colonel Davy Crockett:

am sorry to say I do doubt the honesty of many men that are called good at home, that have given themselves up to serve a party. I am no man's man. I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the white house, no matter who he is. And if this petty, un-patriotic scuffling for men, and forgetting principles, goes on, it will be the overthrow of this one happy nation, and the blood and toil of our ancestors will have been expended in vain. An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East : In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-four (1835), p. 172

50 posted on 04/07/2012 4:01:44 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: xzins

Spare me your bs.

ABO or you are for another 4 years of Obama.


51 posted on 04/07/2012 4:09:40 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote

Hardly.

One big government, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control social liberal is no different than another with a different letter beside his name.

It is sheer hypocrisy for a conservative to vote for Romney OR for Obama. Did you not see what he did in Massachusetts...$50 abortions, forced gay marriage, fees/taxes through the roof, Romneycare?

Principles, Glock. Principles.


52 posted on 04/07/2012 4:14:52 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: editor-surveyor

Wow! Please site your source for this nonsense! Look I will argue policies but the conspiracy theories are a little much.


53 posted on 04/07/2012 4:19:20 AM PDT by chopperjc
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To: Brilliant

Rubio has some issues regarding his time in the legislature in Fl. He also has an ongoing fuss with Univision ( yes it matters in Hispanic community. Plus he may bring some from the Cuban community but for those who think that translates to Mexican or Puerto Rican community you would be mistaken.


54 posted on 04/07/2012 4:19:31 AM PDT by chopperjc
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To: chopperjc; editor-surveyor

Editor-Surveyor is right, and it isn’t a conspiracy theory. Fannie-Freddie was a scam designed to both enrich politicians and to play games one the edge with our financial system. Everyone knew that, and that included Bush’s own money guy, Paulson from Goldman-Sachs, a firm among Obama’s largest money supporters.


55 posted on 04/07/2012 4:28:35 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: chopperjc; editor-surveyor

Editor-Surveyor is right, and it isn’t a conspiracy theory. Fannie-Freddie was a scam designed to both enrich politicians and to play games on the edge with our financial system. Everyone knew that, and that included Bush’s own money guy, Paulson from Goldman-Sachs, a firm among Obama’s largest money supporters.


56 posted on 04/07/2012 4:28:45 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: chopperjc; editor-surveyor

Editor-Surveyor is right, and it isn’t a conspiracy theory. Fannie-Freddie was a scam designed to both enrich politicians and to play games on the edge with our financial system. Everyone knew that, and that included Bush’s own money guy, Paulson from Goldman-Sachs, a firm among Obama’s largest money supporters.


57 posted on 04/07/2012 4:28:45 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: xzins

When it comes to getting rid of Obama, that went out the window a long time ago. I would vote for Charles Manson over Obama.


58 posted on 04/07/2012 4:51:24 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GlockThe Vote

I would not vote for either Charles Manson or Obama.


59 posted on 04/07/2012 5:14:43 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray Continued Victory for our Troops Still in Afghan!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Doesn’t matter who the VP pick is, if Romney is the nominee.


60 posted on 04/07/2012 5:17:31 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (There will be no vote for Myth Romney in my house. Period.)
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