President Obama’s lone reliable surrogate, paid adviser David Axelrod, took to Spanish-language television Sunday to launch a pre-emptive strike against the possibility that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) might be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick. The young, telegenic, dynamic, conservative swing-state senator has been at or near the top of GOP vice presidential pick lists since he was speaker of the Florida House. Axelrod’s strike against Rubio takes a novel approach.
“I think it would be an insult to the Hispanic community to choose Senator Rubio if the thinks that that is somehow—if Governor Romney thinks that’s sort of a get-out-of-jail-free card for all of the things and the positions that he’s taken,” Mr. Axelrod said.
Insult Hispanics by nominating the first one to a major party presidential ticket? By that logic, Walter Mondale insulted women by choosing the late Geraldine Ferraro to join him on the 1984 Democratic ticket. Actually, of the two choices, Mondale’s arguably gets closer to being an insult since his chances of defeating Ronald Reagan in the ’84 election were far lower than Romney’s chances of unseating Obama this year. Mondale went on to lose 49 states to President Reagan. Polls now show Romney well within striking distance of defeating Obama in November.
Hell, by that philosophy, if the Democrats were ever to nominate a Constitutional Law Professor and part-time State Legislator turned Senator, with a professional gadfly background as a “Community Organizer”, just because he happened to be the first Black nominee, that would be an incredible insult to the Black community, and everyone else in the community, and it wouldn’t make up for all their job-killing programs and actions.
Oh wait…
– close the thread, Bryan!
Axelrod would seriously consider voting for Romney if he picks anyone but Rubio… and he was the Democrat candidate.
Well, I think it was an insult for the black community to have voted for someone as base, shallow, naive, and unqualified as Obama for president. There was lots (and I mean lots) of proof out there in 2008 that this guy had no business running for president. He had a slogan and good reading skills and that’s about it. Now look at where we are today. Feel any buyer’s remorse yet? There’s always November to make right what went horribly wrong in 2008.
Just like all those “insulted” Hispanics in Florida who helped elect him to Congress.
They fear him!