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Title: The GOP Ticket in 2012: Romney-Rubio
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TRUTHOUT
URL Source: http://www.truth-out.org/gop-ticket-2012-romney-rubio/1325688324
Published: Jan 4, 2012
Author: Robert Reich
Post Date: 2012-01-04 19:22:44 by Brian S
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Views: 1798
Comments: 3
Since my New Year’s prediction that Obama would select Hillary Clinton for his running mate in 2012 (and Joe Biden would become Secretary of State), I’ve been swamped by requests for my GOP prediction. Here goes. You can forget the caucuses and early primaries. Mitt Romney will be the nominee. Republicans may be stupid but the GOP isn’t about to commit suicide. The other candidates are all weighed down by enough baggage to keep a 747 on the tarmac indefinitely. For his running mate, Romney will choose Marco Rubio, the junior senator from Florida. Why do I say this? First, Romney will need a right-winger to calm and woo the Republican right. Tea Partiers are attracted to Rubio – an evangelical Christian committed to reducing taxes and shrinking government. Rubio’s meteoric rise in the Florida House before coming to Congress was based on a string of conservative stances on state issues. Rubio is also a proven campaigner, handily winning four Florida House elections starting in 2002, and then beating popular incumbent Republican governor Charlie Crist in 2010 — with the help of Tea Partiers. Moreover, he’s only 40, thereby giving the GOP ticket some youthful vigor. And he’s Hispanic – a Cuban-American – at a time when the GOP needs to court the Hispanic vote. Rubio’s only baggage is the “son of exiles” controversy – his suggestion that his parents were refugees forced out of Cuba by Castro when in fact they moved to the United States before the Cuban revolution. But this isn’t the sort of slip that would keep him off the ticket. In fact, Romney has defended Rubio, saying “I think the world of Marco Rubio, support him entirely and think that the effort to try to smear him was unfortunate and bogus.” Finally, and most critically, Florida is a crucial swing state. Rubio would help deliver it. So it will be Obama-Clinton versus Romney-Rubio. And what’s my prediction for Election Day? Obama-Clinton hands down. I warn you, though. Political predictions, economic forecasts, and astrology differ in only one respect. Astrology has a fairly good record of being correct.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!! Mitt Romney has had 4 years of campaigning in Iowa and could still only garner about 25% of the vote, the same as what he got in 2008!!!! People haven't decided on who they want to be the candidate but this tells me it aint Romney..... The establishment wants him but the people don't, that's obvious!!!!! By the way where have you been hiding lately Herr Goebbels?????
Quiz of the Day: Who made the statement "The world would be a better place if only Men were to vote?????? HINT: It was a woman!!!
Call it loser insurance, swell idea from Roberto Reich. That sawed off commie is probably the only one in the USA who likes them both.
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
A Mormon-Cuban ticket? That'll be the day.
You can forget the caucuses and early primaries. Mitt Romney will be the nominee.
#2. To: Brian S, *Arab Spring Jihad* (#0)
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
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