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David Atkins
Marco Rubio again affirms his refusal to join a presidential ticket:
A few developments over the weekend muddied the waters of the Republican vice presidential search, particularly in regards to the chances of Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Beginning on Friday, as he sat down with CNN en Espanol's Ismael Cala, the tea party favorite denied that he would be riding shotgun on the Republican ticket.
"I’m not going to be the vice president. I’m not," he said, the second such announcement this month.
"Marco has said repeatedly that he's not going to be vice president, and all of the speculation in the world isn't going to change that fact,” senior Rubio advisor Todd Harris added.
Regardless of his rejections, there’s a sense that Rubio is still under consideration, and his name still finds its way into the vice presidential conversation.
Former U.S. Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales, a prominent figure during President George W. Bush’s tenure, interviewed with CNN the next day, dismissing Rubio as unqualified for the vice presidency.
"Rubio's resume does not reflect someone prepared to confront serious and dangerous issues that our country faces as president," he said.
Aside from the fact that the only interviews Alberto Gonzales should be giving should be coming from a jail cell, he's right. Rubio isn't qualified to be vice-president, and he knows it. The only reason he keeps coming up as a possibility is because he's Latino, which just goes to show that Republicans believe in affirmative action, too, as long as it's the right kind of affirmative action. And Diós mio do Republicans need help with the Latino vote:
Despite growing disappointment in his handling of immigration issues, Latino voters favor President Barack Obama by six-to-one over any of the Republican presidential hopefuls, showed a Fox News Latino poll conducted under the direction of Latin Insights and released Monday.
The national poll of likely Latino voters indicated that 73 percent of them approved of Obama’s performance in office, with over half those questioned looking favorably upon his handling of the healthcare debate and the economy, at 66 percent and 58 percent respectively.
Released on the eve of the Super Tuesday primaries in the race for the GOP nomination, the Fox News Latino poll shows former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 35 percent of Latino voter support, to Texas Rep. Ron Paul's 13 percent, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's 12 percent, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's 9 percent.
Buena suerte, Republicanos. You'll need every bit of it.
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