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Mitt Romney has given Sen. Marco Rubio plenty of sleepless nights lately.
He taps me… He taps me not.
First, ABC News reports that Rubio is not being vetted by the Romney campaign as a possible running mate. Then, seemingly hours later, Romney declares that the Florida senator is being “thoroughly vetted.”
Through it all, the Tea Party darling has remained tight-lipped about whether or not he’s been in talks with Romney, though it’s unlikely that the two men haven’t discussed the issue yet. Two people can’t simply ignore the rumors about a possible relationship (I learned that with my sixth-grade girlfriend).
As everyone well knows, the argument favoring a Romney-Rubio ticket is that the GOP could gain some much-needed ground with Latinos, many of whom they lost with harsh rhetoric earlier in the election season (something about being fried by an electrified double-fence put off a lot of Latinos to the party’s message of a better America). The opportunity for a Rubio vice-presidency might also help the Republicans win Florida, a key battleground state where the senator remains popular.
In steps Barack Obama – a.k.a. “Black Jesus,” a.k.a. “the Ninja President.”
Through his recent move to end the deportation of tens of thousands of DREAMers – young men and women who… (you know the rest) – Pres. Obama has made Sen. Rubio’s “DREAM Act Lite” plan virtually irrelevant. Maybe that’s why, after the president’s weekend of celebration, Rubio quietly shelved his proposal (it’s like the president ninja-starred the proposal right out of Rubio’s hand).
Surprisingly, however, Rubio came up with a reasonable objection to the president’s move, claiming that the administration’s recent action will make passing legislation on immigration reform this year close to impossible.
“People are going to say to me, ‘Why are we going to need to do anything on this now? It has been dealt with. We can wait until after the election,’ ” Rubio said speaking with The Wall Street Journal. “And it is going to be hard to argue against that.”
The senator has a point, but his argument presumes that the GOP would have come to the table to pass immigration reform legislation in the first place. They wouldn’t have done that, not this year. (Republicans aren’t even willing to raise the debt ceiling to pay the bill for stuff America has already bought.)
In the end, the president did what he had to do – though he could’ve done it much sooner. (Shame on him, but in case we’ve forgotten, government is all politics.)
Now Romney’s openly flirting with the idea of tapping a Latino as his running mate. But who cares? The former Massachusetts governor still plans to reverse Obama’s two key moves on immigration and has even promised to veto the DREAM Act if it’s ever passed during his administration.
I do think Rubio wants to be vice president someday – if not president – but I don’t believe he wants to be Romney’s vice president.
In his new book, An American Son, Rubio says something that you never hear today’s Republican say:
“Many people who came here illegally are doing exactly what we would do if we lived in a country where we couldn’t feed our families. If my kids went to sleep hungry every night and my country didn’t give me an opportunity to feed them, there isn’t a law, no matter how restrictive, that would prevent me from coming here.”
I think Rubes understands Latino issues more than most Republicans; he just got mixed up with the wrong crowd.
It happens too often with promising young Latinos.
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Que digan primero que diablos van hacer para ayudarnos a salir adelante en este pais
Hell no with Rubios anti hispanic sentinism, hes aint going any where.
NOPE,cheap attempt…we’re not stupid.And who falls for it,shame on you.
Not from this Latina!!
Screw Romney and Obama. Ron Paul!
Any article that uses the word ninja on multiple occasions is awesome.
As for Rubio, no way he gets the nod but in a few years maybe. What I don’t get is the hate the man gets from liberal Latinos. Did he punch a baby or something? It’s like he is the Kate Upton of politicians, hated just because. Yes most Latinos vote Democrat, but so what. Most Asians vote Democrat, yet Asian Republicans are never accused of being against their own people. Seriously what is so evil about the guy? Anyone? Bueller?
Nope
Nope.
not from me either
NO WAY!
no
hell no Rubio Sucks!!!!!!!
No, it wouldn’t. But it could be the key to winning Florida, and it’s likely that winning there is all that matters. Rubio isn’t a uniting figure, but he doesn’t have to be. He just has to deliver in Florida.
No! Nope! Seguro que no! Nananina!
Nope.
Not my vote, Romney gives me the creeps he looks like a fake.
for me it was a yes even without Rubio.
I think it’s quite insulting to think we will vote for someone just because a VP, who has no real power other than tied senate votes, is latino. To think we will vote for someone just because of race is a direct insult into my intelligence. I look at character, issues, positions, record. Not race.
No way !!!!!!!!! , not from me either….
No thanks!!
Stop…I just threw-up a little bit.
Unlike the Obama supporters, we don’t jump on the Rubio bandwagon just because he is one of us….
Dare I say it? Latinos should never vote republican. Really.
nope
Hell to the no
Nope!
The fact is that Latinos – Hispanics do not vote as one homogeneous bloc. All kinds of issues are relevant here including immigration, employment, discrimination, deportations, (and in Miami, Castro and Cuba) and the so-many-other issues that assail our community(ies). Rubio will help with Florida for sure, as per Izzy and Henry, but to assume that we will vote for anybody–regardless of party affiliation or political slant–simply because s(he) is Latino, is an assumption one makes at their own political peril.