Who should Mitt Romney pick as VP?

Fox Nation Poll:

Jeb Bush  5.03%   

 

Chris Christie  13.2%   

 

Marco Rubio  55.39%   

 

Other  26.38%   

  

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Jeb Bush propone a Marco Rubio como candidato a vice presidente

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El ex gobernador Jeb Bush, uno de los pilares republicanos de la Florida, ha propuesto que si Mitt Romney se convierte en el candidato a la presidencia elija al senador cubanoamericano Marco Rubio como su compañero de fórmula y primer candidato hispano a vicepresidente.

En una entrevista el miércoles al diario Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Bush declaró que Rubio sería el compañero ideal para Romney porque es el “mejor orador” en la actual política estadounidense. También señaló que proyectaría una imagen dinámica y daría optimismo al mensaje de los conservadores.

“Marco Rubio”, dijo Bush al diario, es “dinámico, alegre, disciplinado y de principios”.

“Es el mejor orador de la política estadounidense hoy, un buen hombre de familia”, precisó.‘‘

Agregó que Rubio, quien en una ocasión fue voluntario en una de sus campañas para gobernador, no es sólo “un conservador consistente sino que ha logrado encontrar la forma de comunicar un mensaje conservador lleno de esperanza y optimismo”.

Bush destacó que él no tiene ambiciones a la vicepresidencia y reiteró que Rubio es la mejor opción.

Jaryn Emhof, secretaria de prensa de Bush, confirmó las declaraciones el jueves a El Nuevo Herald.

A su vez, Alex Burgos, vocero de Rubio en Washington, dijo que éste no tiene intención de ser candidato a la vicepresidencia.

“Como el senador Rubio ha dicho en muchas ocasiones, él no será el candidato a la vicepresidencia”, dijo Burgos.

Algunos analistas opinan que la negativa de Rubio puede ser una formalidad, a fin de no lucir ansioso por el cargo.

La mención de Bush es sumamente significativa. El miércoles, el ex gobernador brindó su respaldo a Romney.

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Farah on Fox TV: Rubio not a natural-born citizen

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Moments after Mitt Romney’s landslide victory in the Florida Republican Primary, WND Editor Joseph Farah declared on national television that Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio would not be a good selection for vice president because he’s not a natural-born citizen of the U.S., and therefore is not legally qualified to hold the office.

“Rubio’s not eligible … because he’s not a natural-born citizen,” Farah told Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel.

Farah’s comment came during discussion about GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who finished third in Florida with 13 percent of the vote, behind Romney’s 46 percent and Newt Gingrich’s 32 percent.

“Well, I think Santorum’s doing one of two things,” Farah explained. “I think he’s either trying to position himself as, ‘There’s no mud on me and I’m a bonafide conservative,’ and maybe that’s going to propel him to the front of the race. Or that other thing that had crossed my mind when he was really talking about Newt criticizing Romney, the thought occurred to me, ‘Is he trying to position himself for a vice-presidential candidacy there?’”

Hannity responded, “I think that’s taken. I think it’s gonna be Rubio. That’s my guess.”

“If it’s not, somebody’s lost their mind,” added Democratic strategist Bob Beckel.

“Rubio’s not eligible,” Farah interjected. “You’re going to lose 10 percent of the Republican vote because he’s not a natural-born citizen. We’ve been through this with Obama now for four years. You want to open that can of worms again?”

“I don’t believe that’s going to work,” Hannity said.

Discover what the Constitution’s reference to “natural born citizen” means and whether Barack Obama qualifies, in the ebook version of “Where’s the REAL Birth Certificate?”

Last May, WND broke the story that Rubio might not be eligible for president or vice president because both of his Cuban-born parents were not U.S. citizens at the time their future-senator son was born. 

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Every single time a Republican primary rolls around, it’s the real test. Remember Iowa? It was going to separate the wheat from the chaff. But all it really did was get rid of Michelle Bachman (not a small thing, but no one believes that was all the chaff). 

Then came New Hampshire, where Mitt Romney -- under the illusion he’d won Iowa -- was going to make it two in a row, score a historic precedent, and prance to the nomination. New Hampshire was a test of money -- who had it, who didn’t. And all it really proved was that Jon Huntsman couldn’t get his dad to give him more of his millions to prop up his campaign (a campaign that was never, not once, about 2012).

Then there was South Carolina, where the strong, evangelical Republican base was going to take every sinner to church. And what that proved was that Newt Gingrich may be a Catholic convert, but he’s probably got a really powerful babalao in Miami. Only black magic can explain Gingrich’s continued dark rising. (A little racist coding didn’t hurt either.)

And now there’s Florida, where the GOP presidential candidates are supposedly battling for the Latino vote and co-frontrunners Gingrich and Romney have hired former aides of Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio to help with their campaigns. 

Let us be clear: GOP wannabes are not really fighting for the Latino vote in Florida. They’re all trying to get the Cuban vote, which is a whole other kind of empanada. In other words, Florida is suis generis, the lessons here useless in every other state and -- you all can buy me drinks later -- the GOP is going to lose Florida in the general election anyway.

I know, you’re saying, Achita, you’ve gone loca.

But hear me out. Or more precisely, take a second listen to Romney and Gingrich at Monday night’s debate, in which they tried to out-metaphorically-kill Fidel Castro. Ask yourself: Who -- besides hardline Cubans -- gives a mambo about whether Fidel lands before his maker or in hell?  More >>

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Marco Rubio in letter to Barack Obama: You are turning America into a 'deadbeat nation'

Amigos de la Net,

Debido a la importancia que posee la presente carta dirigida al Presidente Barack Obama por el Senador Cubano Americano Marco Rubio para el presente y futuro de esta gran nación, la re-enviamos a nuestros Miembros. Y esto no solo preocupa a quienes residimos como ciudadanos libres en este gran país; como cubanos, Obama ha sido un enemigo potencial de la causa de la libertad de Cuba por cuanto ha representado a través de sus políticas de contubernio con el régimen castrista, millones de dólares en ganancias para éste en momentos cruciales donde la oposición libra una lucha sin cuartel en las calles de Cuba precisamente en contra de ese régimen.

Para aquellas personas preocupadas por la situación que afronta el país hoy, adjuntamos al pie de la carta el enlace a la carta orginal, la cual pueden compartir a través de sus cuentas en Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Sin más preámbulo, los invitamos a leer la carta de Marco Rubio en idioma inglés.

¡Por Cuba libre!

Sus amigos de NetforCuba

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Marco Rubio in letter to Barack Obama: You are turning America into a 'deadbeat nation'

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. President:

Any day now, news reports suggest you will ask Congress to approve yet another increase in the debt ceiling. The expected request is another $1.2 trillion, adding to a three year debt binge that has totaled $4.5 trillion on your watch and that has enabled our overall debt to surpass $15 trillion. Your latest request will push the federal debt limit well above $16 trillion.

This pending request will be the sixth time during your Presidency that Congress is being asked to keep allowing government and spending to grow at rates that are unsustainable. In other words, you have made it a routine part of your job to ask for more room to spend without any plan to reduce our debt.

Instead of making debt ceiling increases a routine Washington exercise, we need to make it routine to actually spend no more than we take in. Until then, I will oppose your request to continue borrowing and spending recklessly.

As I wrote in The Wall Street Journal in March 2011, I will oppose a debt ceiling increase unless such an authorization is accompanied by a real plan to tackle our debt. Ideally, such a plan would feature both pro-growth elements and spending restraints, including fundamental tax reform, regulatory reform, meaningful cuts to discretionary spending, a balanced-budget amendment, and reforms to save Social Security and Medicare.

If we had done this in mid-2011 when we last debated the debt ceiling, we could have set America on a path to economic growth and prosperity. This would have led to more jobs and, in turn, to more duly employed taxpayers generating more growth-driven revenue to help us pay down our debt. Instead, you failed to lead, punted the tough decisions and, in doing so, our credit rating was downgraded for the first time in our history. It's a tragic reality but, on your watch, more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation inevitably heading toward a European-style debt crisis.

When you served in the Senate in 2006, you called raising the debt limit "a sign of leadership failure." Using your own standard, this request will mark your sixth "sign of leadership failure" on the debt ceiling issue alone. Throughout our history, Americans have revered courageous leaders and celebrated them as profiles in courage. Unfortunately, the first three years of your presidency have been a profile in leadership failure. While you may choose to run your reelection campaign against a "Do-Nothing Congress," your insistence on doing nothing to meaningfully tackle our debt poses a direct threat to America's exceptional character and is leading us toward a diminished future.

America deserves leaders who will stand front and center, level with the American people about our challenges and offer real solutions to solve them. Instead of simply asking for another debt ceiling increase, I urge you to come forward with a real plan to tackle our debt in 2012.

Sincerely,

Marco Rubio
United States Senator

URL: http://www.scribd.com/doc/77352588/1-6-12-Obama-Debt-Ceiling-Letter-FINAL

Marco Rubio has what Mitt Romney needs in a vice president

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Several names have been suggested, including Condoleezza Rice and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. Rice’s interest isn’t clear, and Portman, despite his personal qualities and swing-state bona fides, would merely add a snooze button to Romney’s campaign.

Latest to the list is the young and junior senator from Florida, Marco Rubio. His political résuméincludes: nine years as a state legislator, including two as speaker of the Florida House; enormous popularity with Tea Partyers who sent him to the U.S. Senate over Republican Gov. Charlie Crist; a Cuban heritage and, thus, his presumed appeal to Hispanic voters; he’s young at just 40 and, it never hurts, attractive.

Add to the above the fact that Florida is a crucial swing state, the population of which is 22.5 percent Hispanic.

No one is ever perfect, of course, and Rubio critics will cite his chronologically challenged rendition of his parents’ exile from Cuba. Rubio claimed that they were driven out by Fidel Castro when, in fact, they left Cuba before Castro took over the island nation. Rubio later explained that the date, though incorrect, didn’t diminish the family’s experience of exile when, upon Castro’s rise to power, they didn’t feel they could return to Cuba.

For Cubans who had to leave their homeland with empty pockets and broken hearts, their homes ravaged and their belongings confiscated by revolutionary rebels, Rubio’s exaggeration no doubt stung. But was it fatal? Not likely. It is possible to imagine that Rubio, who grew up in south Florida, where Spanish is a first language and displacement is the Cuban community’s core identity, can be understood to have embraced the larger cultural narrative as his own. As he wrote in Politico, “I am the son of exiles. I inherited two generations of unfulfilled dreams. This is a story that needs no embellishing.”

Rubio will survive the controversy.

Of perhaps greater value to Democrats is Rubio’s attractiveness to Tea Partyers. Thanks to media portraits of Tea Party members as tantrum-throwing ignoramuses with racist tendencies, the argument would be that Rubio can’t appeal to a broader spectrum of voters. This argument has some merit, but only if you haven’t heard Rubio speak or paid attention to his message. Rubio isn’t just a poster boy for the shrink-government contingent. Much like President Obama, he’s a monument to the American Dream. Like Obama, he speaks often about the privilege of being an American and of possessing a birthright that allows the son of a bartender and a maid to become a U.S. senator. Only in America.  More >> 

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Meterse con la izquierda es un peligro: son chanchulleros, chusmas...capaces de utilizar lo inimaginable para golpear bajo; por ejemplo, el poderoso circuito de la media americana, a los pies (mejor que al servicio) de la rancia caterva liberal del país, encabezados por el partido demócrata y filocomunistas ellos mismos, que han visto como un dolor de cabeza que alguien de origen cubano anticastrista, como el senador Marcos Rubio, se convierta en una figura digna del rótulo "manéjese con cuidado", están tratando de bloquear su promisoria carrera política con argumentos tan estúpidos como “su legalidad en asuntos migratorios familiares” y, porque fue lo que aparentó, casi que “un soldado castellano del siglo XIX, ascendiente familiar del joven, mató a 4 moros en una "desigual batalla desfavorable a los sarracenos", bueno, si argumentaron lo de un familiar de su esposa hace más de 20 años, cuando Rubio tenía solo 16, cualquier cosa es posible de esta gente: "a lo Castro, a lo Lenin, a lo Stalin, a lo Brheznev..."

El problema de Julian Assange es grave, está confirmado: "se puso fatal", porque resulta que de su vertedero, como desde los baños de los pocos restaurantes que hay en La Habana, en los que orine y excremento se unen en una singular y curiosa corriente, desembocó en la acera demócrata.

El destape de Wikileaks se produjo con Obama en el poder y eso, porque tiene a toda la media nacional bajo control partidista, ni imaginó el tipo en el peligro que incurría: acaban de fallar en Inglaterra que será enviado a Suecia para que enfrente acusaciones de las que no lo salva ni el medico chino.

El dominio de la Media por el partido demócrata, arreciado con la gestión de Obama, casi tiránica para una democracia como la de Estados Unidos es tal que, las noticias sobre los cables "filtrados" desaparecieron de titulares de importancia desde hace rato; pero no para siempre, sino que irán resucitando cuando crean y como lo entiendan en la Casa Blanca.

Por ejemplo, hace pocos días se supo que Assange se quedó sin patrocinadores y la noticia la dio el propio individuo desde donde se encontraba detenido, como: "nos bloquearon las tarjetas de crédito..." lo que quiere decir que aquellos que estaban jugando al "chucho (chicote en el libro de lecturas de 5to grado de Luis Pérez Espinós, colección El Sembrador) escondido", tal vez fueron visitados por personas no muy amables y los convencieron para que le dijeran al individuo que “se había terminado el pastel” ¿Quién sabe?

Assange es hoy un prisionero de su propia estupidez, parece que creyó el cuento de que podía contra enemigos tan formidables para convertirse en titán, no de la verdad, sino del interés a base de métodos sucios. El tipo perdió el juego.

Hace dos semanas declaró que se paralizaba el liqueo por lo de las tarjetas, cuando la suspicacia sugiere que le cubrieron la gotera con materiales más resistentes que los que se emplean para lo mismo en las plantas nucleares.

A mi me encanta el entredicho, más cuando coloca en condiciones miserables al partido del musulmán y al propio Califa de la Casa Blanca: la actividad de Wikileaks pudo haber sido habilitada por el partido demócrata, con la aprobación de Obama, como otra forma grosera e indecente de poner en situación delicada a los republicanos; esta vez, internacionalmente, desde Reagan hasta George W. sin embargo, como que también se les "fueron" algunas informaciones que involucran a su administración, pues pusieron en marcha la enorme maquinaria de ejecución y limpieza posterior a que acostumbran y las noticias de un Assange totalmente desarmado son cuando quieran y a cuenta gotas, como esta de que se lo llevan para Suecia y no hay un solo titular de primera llamativo ni posibilidades de que se repita mañana. Así es esta gente de sucia, por eso son peligrosos...