I’m not real sure what Portman brings to the race. Some budget experience. Some Senate experience. There was a time I’d have said that he brought stability, but I wonder about someone who gets so out of touch with his kids that he doesn’t know one of them is a homosexual. That doesn’t strike me as stability. It strikes me as absentee.
Let’s not forget that this tool was against homo marriage until he found out his daughter was a homo—then he changed his mind and is now for it! He would not get my vote.
From what little I know about Portman, my thinking is he has no enemies in GOP. He gets along with establishment types and does not offend conservatives like Romney or Jeb Bush can. I have also not seen much charisma and fire in the belly emanating from him, but like I said, I have not seen much of him.