Rubio appears to be gearing up to be Romney's VP

[Drunken Irishman]

42. They care because it's a story...

But when it passes, and the campaign returns to the issues, it becomes irrelevant. It doesn't matter who you pick (well, obviously it does - I mean, if Romney picked a homeless person off the street there would be a problem). People are not going to suddenly vote for Romney because Rubio is on the ticket - just as voters didn't vote for Kerry because he picked Edwards.

What I'm saying is that the VP candidates bring almost nothing to the table and it's pointless to get worked up over something that will have minimal impact. Romney isn't going to win this thing on the coattails of his VP. It just doesn't work that way.

And your last point doesn't even fit into the context of this thread. I didn't say a VP can't be elected president (?), I only asked when, in the last 40 years, can you point to the VP CANDIDATE as the reason why the ticket won - and you can't!

Reagan didn't win in 1980 because of Bush. Obama didn't win '08 because of Biden.

VP candidates get a lot of play because it's a story, but when it dies down, and it will, voters won't care. It's why, in 1988, voters still voted for Bush over Dukakis, even though Lloyd Bentsen was far and away more superior than Dan Quayle.