so he will vet him, every move is a calculation.

He'll be trying to anyone who is Latino. The Washington Post has already written off Rubio.

Also:

I wavered when his lie about his parents surfaced. That didn't last long.

Rubio is the solution for the 'Latino problem.'

Some Latinos will vote for them, just because there's a Latino on the ticket.

Sorry, it's true.

Any gain in the Latino vote that Rubio would bring is erased by the loss of Teabaggers who hate Hispanics.

Romney know this. Why don't you?

Your mistake is in thinking that the majority of Repigs can think strategically.
They can't.
They only see what's right in front of them, and a Hispanic VP just won't be accepted.

Literally!

Cubans are not "hispanics" and "hispanics" are not Cubans.

This may win Romney Florida - but not much else.

Palin II, the sequel. The ad line: "We tried a woman for VP. Now, how about a Latino?"

It would seem by making this announcement Romney is either locking himself in to picking Rubio or he is going to leave the appearance that Rubio failed the vetting process and is going to damage him. Romney is either dead set on Rubio or he is extremely stupid for making this statement.

like the Birthers are going to suddenly move to the Democratic party.

Maybe I am just imagining things.

I bet he has never used a lawnmower in his life

You would think he would get a double bang for the buck if he picked someone like New Mexico's governor, Susana Martinez....

Trust me if he chooses her he is going to fix his woman problem and pick up the needed Latino vote too... She gives me the most concern....

Watch her acceptance speech. She sounds like she just got voted onto the school board. She inspires zero confidence. It's like they're cheering her to keep her from falling apart. It's three o'clock in the morning and the phone rings. Right.

is exactly how Romney would play her, remember she was a Democrat, she is the first female latino governor in the U.S. she works in a very bipartisan fashion. That 3 a.m. phone call logic doens't work anymore thanks to gaffe prone Joe Biden and his many bumbling moments. In fact the teaheads I work with always say hell no to impeaching Obama because can you imagine Joe in charge? So that cuts both ways and I believe is not an important distinction.

Picking her a relatively low key figure who used to be a Democrat, has clearly worked in a Bipartisan fashion in her state is a Female and a Latino and won't bring the same scrutiny (baggage) that a (Condi Rice) would.

Good lord ...

You may be correct, I'm not really familiar with the lady. I was simply thinking of the numbers (5 vs. 29 I believe). He is going to want Florida and Texas because Obama will have New York and California.

women don't vote for candidates based solely on gender - repukes found that out with that dipshit Palin

but there is that glass ceiling thing and if she isn't as polarizing as Palin was, and she certainly isn't as dumb as Palin is either, being a low key candidate allowing Romney to keep all the focus may work the point is she becomes a twofer.

If there are, they might want to wait by the phone. Romney's advisors might ask them to join the ticket so they can win over Latino voters.

I don't think Mitt gets to make the call, either. I think the LDS thinks it gets to make the call. And I think Ron Paul is maneuvering so that he gets to make the call. Then there are half a dozen billionaires who think they bought the right to name that person, and the Teabaggers' bite-down veto, and Jeb wanting to keep his potential running mates for '016 clean and out of this trainwreck, and so on. Oh, and Newt. Can't forget him.

I think the odds are high that at least one of those three to five groups will flatly oppose a female and/or Latino running mate.

I think the odds are high that at least one of those three to five groups will also flatly oppose Ron Paul himself.

Which leaves rich white male Ivy leaguers who haven't wrecked a state too badly lately.

My best guess is that the one guy--and it will be a guy, because they really do hate women, except maybe Ron Paul--that they can all agree on is Jon Huntsman (what, you forgot UPenn is in the Ivy League?).

Yeah, the can-deliver-Utah's-already-locked-six-electoral-votes Jon Huntsman, I really do think they're that stupid. Or more specifically I think they're all going to have to settle on the least sleazy guy because they can't trust each others' suggestions.

I think Jeb Bush wants Rubio for himself in 2016, so he'll happily let Romney's people do the background check now.

they are both Florida folks though - although I suppose Jeb thinks he has Texas too.

Too funny though. You know Marco may well run in 2016. I wouldn't be surprised at all.

and I wasn't thrilled with Joe and his bank connections (and here he has turned into a pretty terrific VP)

really?

Watch this speech. He's completely uninspiring.

but the teaheads I work with are not convinced they claim the birthers would have the same disagreement with him that they have with Obama and it would be a hard to convince them to support him additionally the teabags don't really like Romney that much either but they are vehemently anti-Obama so they are supporting him as the lesser of evils.

As many non cuban latinos, like myself, are sick sick sick sick of the way the Cubans have been handed privileges and respect non of us do, and how the Cubans act like they are Aryan Whites, eager to kick us in the teeth to make their anglo friends smile.

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Lol why do mexican latinos call all whites Anglos?

as in neutering ?

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