I retract my long standing prediction of a Rubio Presidency in 2016.

[onehandle]

He's done.

But whoever is Mittens's running mate has a good shot, assuming it's not a throwaway candidate like Mittens himself.

[AtomicKitten]

1. I retract my prediction that he would be the VP candidate on the GOP ticket.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. Yep...no remedy for a bold face lie which it is 100% obvious he lied

to pander.

Bah-bye Marco

[Ter]

3. Rand Paul has it on lock

n/t

[Donnachaidh]

8. oh dear gods....

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: we really need a suicide gif for moments like this :scared:

[Pirate Smile]

10. Here you go:

[dkf]

4. I think that is a good call.

[customerserviceguy]

5. Yes, Rubio's fortunes have surely changed this week

But I'm not sure that it's Mittens who will be doing the pickin'. The country clubber Republicon establishment is working hard on the tea partiers to get on board with Gov. Flip-Flop (R-MA,MI,UT) but I don't think they're going to convince the fundies, who I think are now permanently in the Herman Cain camp.

I see nobody going to Tampa with a first-ballot victory in hand.

[dkf]

12. Poll: "more respondents expressed aversion to voting for a Mormon than for an African American."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=804125&mesg_id=804125

[MjolnirTime]

14. He stuck his neck out. It's no surprise people are horrified with what they see.

Before this he was basically a mime Ken doll.

[Arkana]

22. OK, what did I miss? Why is Rubio suddenly non-viable?

[grantcart]

24. He lied about his family's exodus from Cuba

He said that his family bravely fled the dictator Castro and it turns out they left a couple of years before and then flew back for family visits after Castro took power during the time that the US and Cuba still had normal relations.

They become not political refugees but economic migrants who then used oppression to make themselves look better.

For the Tea Party with their birtherism and their anti economic migration and their opposition to lying about being anti communist he managed to hit three big buttons all at the same time.

Some birthers are being reasonably consistent and saying that he doesn't meet the constitutional standard because his parents weren't citizens when he was born.

I think it does eliminate this time around as VP (which may explain why he was being shy about it from the begining) but it will be past history in 4 years.

[customerserviceguy]

27. The lying will be old news in four years

But the potential Constitutional issue won't be.

[Lint Head]

6. Obama was never deceptive about his parents.

[bornskeptic]

7. Only one losing vice-presidential candidate has ever been elected president

and it was 12 years later in FDR's case. As far as I know, no other losing vice-presidential candidate has ever received his party's nomination for president. Why do you think the 2012 election would be different?

[NICO9000]

21. Bob Dole was veep candidate when Ford lost in 76

And prez candidate 20 years later.

[bornskeptic]

28. You're right. I had forgotten that.

[Pirate Smile]

9. I used to be worried about him but hearing his nasty response to Gaddafi's death and then the

fact that his entire narrative is false - plus his credit card problems - I'm not worried any more.

[dkf]

11. Lol. Strike three.

[MjolnirTime]

13. you underestimate how much this Country's demographics are shifting.

Millions of Teabaggers will have died by 2016.

Millions of young minorities will have become voting age.

[onehandle]

20. That was part of my original reasoning starting the night Rubio was elected.

Just enough Latinos would vote for him to put him over the top, just because he's Latino.

But now, I do not believe he will be selected to run with Mittens. I was 100% sure before.

And without a VP run under his belt, teabaggers doubting his legitimacy, and his boldface lie, I doubt he can even secure the 2016 nomination.

[TheKentuckian]

15. One has to suspend disbelief to take any of these hucksters seriously

The problem is one of them is going to actually be nominated and gets an automatic 40% of the vote for showing up.

I can't impact what they do, so I tend to not devote much energy to their internal choices. I have no doubt it will be a crook, an idiot, or most likely both and just go from there.

There is no least bad or even a most easily bested opponent. Cheering on any of them is wasted energy, the most "moderate" and "sane" are off the meter and the biggest idiot is quite likely to be installed to fuck up the country.

[TrogL]

16. and I thought Canadian politics was confusing

Who in hell are "Rubio" and "Mittens"?

[Pirate Smile]

18. Mittens = Romney; Rubio = Sen. Marc Rubio (RW-FL)

[Arkana]

23. That's "Marco" Rubio.

I'm a Marc and to be in the same category with that lying scumfuck makes my skin crawl.

[ClarkUSA]

25. Good point. We should all call them that to make xenophobic birthers twitch and speak in tongues.

Bwahaha!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. I think in 5 years no one will give a shit. Pukes lie like most of us change underwear and there

are no consequences. He's got the Bush Crime Family endorsement. I still think it's a possibility. The sure way to get rid of him is by exposing his corruption but that didn't even work in 2010.

[flamingdem]

19. Whaaa Whaa Fidel was mean to my parents

Whaaaaaaaaaa mean mean dictator

Vote for me whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and the gop dictators whaaa

hehe

[Honeycombe8]

26. I don't think that's a big deal, actually. It could be that his parents lied to him.

It could also be that people who voted for him didn't vote for him because of that one thing, or primarily that one thing.

Romney has lied plenty, and looks like he's going to be the nominee. Bush lied plenty.

Hey, it'd be a big deal to me, but Republicans tend to think that the evils that one of their own do just aren't that bad. They stick together.

They're likely to think....at least he's not a moderate!

[SkyDaddy7]

29. Rubio is not in any danger...

Republicans can get away with LYING...Americans do not hold Republicans to the same standards they hold Democrats to! This is just another sad fact of American politics. IMHO.