S.E. Cupp: C’mon, Romney’s not really considering a woman for VP
posted at 6:36 pm on July 6, 2012 by Allahpundit
Via Mediaite. I’m inclined to agree, notwithstanding Ann Romney’s comments to the contrary. It has nothing to do with Team Mitt being “anti-woman” or whatever imbecilic label the left would slap on this. It’s a simple matter of there being few prominent Republican women pols available right now who clearly fit Romney’s core VP criterion of being ready to be president on day one. Ideally he wants someone with significant executive (or at least national) experience, a reputation for competence, and a background that’s squeaky clean to the point of boredom. Pawlenty’s an obvious possibility; Portman, while lacking executive experience, has served in the White House, the Senate, and the House, so he’s another. None of the Republican women frequently mentioned as possibilities fit the description. Ayotte and Susana Martinez landed on the national landscape just two years ago. (As did Rubio, of course, which is probably why he allegedly wasn’t closely vetted until recently.) Cathy McMorris Rodgers has served in Congress for seven years but picking her would raise the question of why, if Romney was open to a VP from the House, he didn’t pick the far more prominent Paul Ryan instead. If the answer is “Because Mitt’s afraid of Ryan’s budget,” that’ll be received, shall we say, coolly by conservatives.
Who else is left? You don’t suppose…
No, the woman Ann Romney likely has in mind is Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state.
Rice wowed the crowd—and seemed to impress Mitt Romney, who was standing beside her—when she spoke in a featured role at a Romney campaign event two weeks ago in Park City, Utah. Rice is qualified, would be a poised (if novice) candidate, and would complement Romney in terms of area of expertise, gender (obviously!), and life experience. Rice offers an unusual combination of being at once a reassuring pick (she served at the highest levels of the federal government for eight years) and an exciting one.
What’s more, while the other VP possibilities have decent but middling favorable/unfavorable ratings (and are mostly unknown), Rice’s favorable/unfavorable, according to a Rasmussen poll a couple of months ago, is a pretty staggering 66-24. Rice has said she’s not interested—but Dick Cheney said he wasn’t interested at this point in 2000.
You think? Jeb couldn’t run this year because George is still radioactive (the worst president ever according to Newsweek’s recent poll). A majority of voters still blame Bush more than Obama when they’re asked who’s responsible for the rotten economy. And yet Romney’s big VP surprise, with candidates as well regarded as Ryan, Jindal, Rubio, and Christie in the mix, is going to be … one of the most recognizable members of the Bush administration, who’s associated first and foremost with his foreign policy? What am I missing here?
Exit question: The buzz for Jindal seems to be growing by the day. If he’s the pick, what’s his answer when reporters ask him why he endorsed Rick Perry instead of Romney in the primary?
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Did Reid just vote “NO?”
red villain on April 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM
Harry Reid just voted “No”..? Unexpected.
ksbsnowowl on April 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM
He brought up the fact that no only internet sales were covered by the amendment, saying that ANY type of ad or marketing for a buyer could be punishable under the amendment.
Patriot Vet on April 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM
Murkowski (sp?) voted for Manchin-Toomey. I thought she wasn’t going to?
ksbsnowowl on April 17, 2013 at 4:13 PM
Murkowski (R-AK) was a no. Mikulski (socialist from Maryland) was a yes
jffree1 on April 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM
54 for
46 against
Manchin-Toomey does not pass.
ksbsnowowl on April 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM
Manchin-Toomey Amendment fails 54-46
Throat Wobbler Mangrove on April 17, 2013 at 4:27 PM
The Amendment goes down.
WisRich on April 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Not agreed to? Does that mean it tanked?
WhatSlushfund on April 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM
(Reid voted no)
Seven Percent Solution on April 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM
FAIL!!!!!!
54-46
D-fusit on April 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM
The Dems go all in on using the Sandy Hook victims to lay the groundwork for a national gun registry which would eventually lead to complete confiscation, and at the end of the day all they get out of it is the scalp of one blue state GOP senator who would have probably lost to his Dem opponent in 2016 anyway.
Politically speaking, this is as colossal a f***-up as has occurred in a very long time. Of course, the media will just hand-wave that part of it away and fall back on the tired old “NRA owns Congress!!” song.
Gator Country on April 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Who was that wacko shouting?
WhatSlushfund on April 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Reid voted “NO”?
Obama’s gonna be mad.
kingsjester on April 17, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Really? Zero must have promised her a job when she gets kicked out next year…
PetecminMd on April 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM
By voting that way he reserves the right to bring it back to the floor at any time I think.
AngusMc on April 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Thank you, Lord.
kingsjester on April 17, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Leahy is wearing Depends…
Seven Percent Solution on April 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Leahy Drunk?
D-fusit on April 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM
If it had had a chance in hell of passing, you can damned well bet that Murkowski would have voted yes.
Gator Country on April 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Manchin/Toomey failed Only got 54 votes. Nays 46
they are now doing the Cruz substitute.
Interesting they have Biden there.
CoffeeLover on April 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Thanks for sharing that.
In other words, Obama’s efforts to eradicate American manufacturing and business in general was the objective here.
Lourdes on April 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Procedural vote so it can be brought up again.
Dasher on April 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM
Leahy rambling incoherently right now.
cdog0613 on April 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM
angus is right. by voting no, Reid can bring it back.
NoVAHockey on April 17, 2013 at 4:31 PM
He’s there to make sure the party faithful vote their conscience.
CurtZHP on April 17, 2013 at 4:31 PM
Cruz Amendment voting underway.
D-fusit on April 17, 2013 at 4:31 PM
DITTO.
Meanwhile, Feinstein is busy scribbling down more legislation to ban (fill-in the blank).
Lourdes on April 17, 2013 at 4:31 PM
Michelle Malkin @michellemalkin 2m
The reason Harry Reid voted no on Manchin-Toomey is as a procedural move to preserve option to bring back the bill. #2A
cdog0613 on April 17, 2013 at 4:31 PM
Gator Country on April 17, 2013 at 4:30 PM
No doubt…
jffree1 on April 17, 2013 at 4:32 PM
I believe Reid’s “No” vote is procedural.
It means he can bring it up again, or something like that.
aquaviva on April 17, 2013 at 4:32 PM
Breitbart reporting AMNESTY bill has provision for MARCOPHONES!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhhh
PappyD61 on April 17, 2013 at 4:32 PM
They are satellite phones for people who live near the border. Illegals can’t get them.
dforston on April 17, 2013 at 4:34 PM
I want worried about the amendment… It’s the bill itself I’m concerned about…
Skywise on April 17, 2013 at 4:35 PM
@PappyD61:
Yes, posted link on Page 1 of comments here.
…not that posting it here earlier lessons the insanity of MarcoPhones. Or Marco at this rate.
Lourdes on April 17, 2013 at 4:35 PM
I hope this isn’t a “dumb” question but do all of these ammendments require 60 votes?
rsherwd65 on April 17, 2013 at 4:35 PM
So are there 15 “squishy” Dems who will vote “aye” on cloture for the Cruz amendment?
cdog0613 on April 17, 2013 at 4:35 PM
@dforston: as if that makes this plan acceptable…
Lourdes on April 17, 2013 at 4:36 PM
Long live the second amendment… Most excellent news… Liberals can go now and f*** themselves…
mnjg on April 17, 2013 at 4:37 PM
Leave the phones, take the border security.
Lourdes on April 17, 2013 at 4:37 PM
How did Donnelly of Indiana vote? He should be a no.
esr1951 on April 17, 2013 at 4:38 PM
She MUST be thrown out, the scumhag!!!
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:39 PM
It will go back for a three word revision and reintroduced.
Limerick on April 17, 2013 at 4:40 PM
Sounds like Cruz Amendment is going down.
WisRich on April 17, 2013 at 4:41 PM
Hmmm….McCaskill an “aye”
cdog0613 on April 17, 2013 at 4:42 PM
Landrieu and Baucus an “aye”.
cdog0613 on April 17, 2013 at 4:42 PM
McCain Arrrgghh
cmsinaz on April 17, 2013 at 4:44 PM
By my count, it looks like the numbers will roughly match Manchin-Toomey.
It’ll be nice to see Feinstein fail to break 40 though.
PetecminMd on April 17, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Collins, Kirk, McCain, Toomey – the swine of the senate. Combust, you morons, for dereliction of your oaths.
Reid will burn in the hottest place in Hell, for many reasons, this being minor and a charlatanic procedure.
Throw Pryor out anyway. NO more of the fakers in the red states, none. Don’t be fooled.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:44 PM
52-48. Goes down.
cdog0613 on April 17, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Ignore rove….get rid of this travesty then get onto immigration and ridding us of that piece of dung…..gosnell….gosnell…leest we not forget and we need to ramp up the heat…the very least the butcher mills need more inspections and be held to at least the standards of outpatient surgery centers not hell holes…remember lefties safe and legal is what you jam down our throats…not so much safe for either mom nor child
crosshugger on April 17, 2013 at 4:45 PM
Well that’s that then. But folks, we all feel better, don’t we? I mean, we care about the kids. So there’s that.
LetsBfrank on April 17, 2013 at 4:45 PM
What is in the main bill? All these votes are for the admendments.
Oh, and by the way, is Leahy drunk?
WisRich on April 17, 2013 at 4:45 PM
What a disgrace McCain is to his father, grandpa, the land, the Soldiers.
He is the shame of the USA, the old incompetent coot. It’s what you get when one doesn’t retire with a shred of decency.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:45 PM
Did McCain vote not on the Grassley amendment?!!
cdog0613 on April 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM
Watching Leahy makes me glad for one thing…
… Gravity always wins.
Seven Percent Solution on April 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM
Well, that idea of forgoing Thatcher’s funeral to stay home and drag gun control over the finish line seems to have been in vain.
Who am I kidding, the most petty president ever was just using that as an excuse so he didn’t come across as completely classless to the low information moderates in the United States.
ButterflyDragon on April 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM
Does Leahy know what day of the week it is? Or where he is?
WhatSlushfund on April 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM
McCain is also incontinent, of the brain/pants.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM
Er, not= no.
cdog0613 on April 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM
Obama: “if I had a failed anti-2nd amendment bill, it would look like Toomey/Manchin.”
LetsBfrank on April 17, 2013 at 4:47 PM
McCain is an incredible swine, with apologies to the clean pigs.
How could you re-elect this pit, good people of AZ?
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:47 PM
Did you vote for him in 2010?
The last vote he got from me was 2008. In 2010 I voted for independent run by a conservative.
chemman on April 17, 2013 at 4:48 PM
Double boilers, like a pressure cooker but more deadly.
Bishop on April 17, 2013 at 4:48 PM
Excuse me while I step outside, fire off a few rounds into the air, and yell “yeehaw!”
Suck on that, Liberunts.
M240H on April 17, 2013 at 4:50 PM
He is always a Fool.
He and Obama lie. Joe is in Mika’s panties, always.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:50 PM
It’s not over but, yes, the left wins because they care more. A granola, lefty friend/acquaintance of mine (who works in a school, surprise!) wore a running shirt to work yesterday “in Solidarity with the Boston Marathon” tragedy. I kid you not. I’m sure it helped.
Fallon on April 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM
Poor JoeScar,
90% of Americans are not in favor of background checks. The question on background check is like polling world peace: everyone is for until you get into the details of how you get there.
mwbri on April 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM
I guess Obama will need to fly into Vegas to raise more money for his next campaign….oh wait…
redguy on April 17, 2013 at 4:51 PM
McCain might be against Grassley.
In any event, it’s good that this also failed. Hopefully Nothing will pass now.
All who meddle with the Bill of Rights, spontaneously combust, you idiotic fools. You have no clue how free you are. May you all be in chains, for dereliction of your oaths.
Obama is an incredible buffoon of the land.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:52 PM
Like I said
Joes rant tomorrow am will be highlarious
cmsinaz on April 17, 2013 at 4:53 PM
His daily lecture on why his way is the only reasonable way. Everyone else are whacko’s.
WisRich on April 17, 2013 at 4:53 PM
This won’t be the last of this. These fascist scum are going to be pushing this on overdrive as long as O-scum is in the White House.
WhatSlushfund on April 17, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Was Piers Morgan in the gallery..?
d1carter on April 17, 2013 at 4:53 PM
No Doubt he will be standing in front of the recently exhumed Newtown kids for effect…
… No doubt.
Seven Percent Solution on April 17, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Just want to grab every libtard that says “90% of Americans agree on background checks” and shake them and tell them, “Sure… but no way 90% of Americans would be OK with this rights-tromping Cluster-F of a bill.”
Phew!
monkeyboy on April 17, 2013 at 4:53 PM
The real question that should be asked of this US Senate is, why do you want to disarm law abiding American citizens while arming terrorist in the Midde East? Maybe a remedial course in the Constituion of the United States is needed here!
savage24 on April 17, 2013 at 4:54 PM
If this characterization helps kill the thing, fine. But if it points to the right’s search for the trivial, not fine.
I read on NRO that the language regarding the phones were taken from a bill that Kyl (no border slouch) and McCain (yes, Juan) introduced last year to beef up border security. The idea was to get cellphone use for the U.S. citizens living along the border so they could more easily report things. The NRO post mentioned that the AZ rancher who was killed in the past year or two was not found for 13 hours, largely because they were unable to track his cellphone. That bill hand nothing to do with immigration; it addressed border security only.
So, I see the funny digs about Marcophones, and I find them humorous. But to the extent they aren’t true, I think oxygen is better used on bad things about Rubiomnesty that are true.
If I’m wrong, based on what I’ve read, fine. I’m not trying to pick a quarrel.
BuckeyeSam on April 17, 2013 at 4:54 PM
Maybe Dear Leader wants to add pressure cookers to the ban list?
Dingbat63 on April 17, 2013 at 4:54 PM
Thumbing your nose at 90% of Americans?
Gallup: Only 4% of Americans think gun control is an important problem
The Rogue Tomato on April 17, 2013 at 4:54 PM
SO funny to see twitter all in a huff over this. The ill-informed are citing that 90% of Americans support background checks. Ok, maybe so but 90% sure didn’t support this bill. Speaking of 90%, I would bet that 90% of those complaining about this vote think that there are no background checks done at all.
I read that this bill would have made it illegal to go on vacation and leave your guns in your house with your roommate? Anyone know if this is true?
The Notorious G.O.P on April 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM
Obama: ” I have just signed an Executive Order outlawing the private ownership of firearms. DHS will be assisting in the confiscation, to begin tomorrow morning.”
kingsjester on April 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM
The bill does not say anything about a citizenship requirement to get your MARCOPHONE “grant”.
only this little “residency” requirement …
Of course these are for illegals – just one of the many generous perks that taxpayers will be covering under Rubio’s INSTANT AMNESTY plan.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/17/Immigration-bill-contains-free-cell-phone-handouts-dubbed-MarcoPhones
Pork-Chop on April 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM
Obama speaks: “Uuuuuhhhhh…..”
And the world moves on.
Buck Ofama. For the children!
Liam on April 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM
ROFL
Only a moron wouldn’t read the writing on the wall, starting with the 70 million gun-purchase background checks since Barky took office and ending with the whole 4% of Americans who think more gun laws are something to focus on right now.
Bishop on April 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM
This. Although, I do like the rumors that the House may break it up into separate bills if it does pass House.
ChrisL on April 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM
Finger from the American people to this idiotic Brit. Go home, you creep. Maybe they’ll take you in.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Called it in the very first comment here. The Big Zero will go on the air blaming GOP obstructionism- even though they provided a WORKABLE alternative. Since the Dems control the media, that won’t get heard.
michaelo on April 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Who has been buying all of these guns and ammo..?
d1carter on April 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Chemman yes *sigh *
cmsinaz on April 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM
He’s got the math right, for the wrond argument, the Fool in Mika’s panties.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:57 PM
The Ed Schultz of gun control?
If so, I’ll be looking forward to his move to a weekend show.
BuckeyeSam on April 17, 2013 at 4:57 PM
You realy should not compare the potus to a buffoon. I know a few buffoons that are nice.
VegasRick on April 17, 2013 at 4:57 PM
I doubt Reid voted yes on Grassley-Cruz. So we are looking for the names of four more Dems, not three.
Missy on April 17, 2013 at 4:57 PM
If by “gallery” you mean Obama’s crotch, he was there.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:57 PM
Obama is going to speak at 5:30?..Oh goody. It’s been so long since his face has been on TV talking down to people.
Mimzey on April 17, 2013 at 4:57 PM
My sincere apologies to them.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:58 PM
They went through with the vote to begin their final push to get rid of the filibuster.
Gird your loins. It’s starting tonight.
forest on April 17, 2013 at 4:58 PM
VegasRick on April 17, 2013 at 4:57 PM
LOl! I know. I work with some. :)
kingsjester on April 17, 2013 at 4:58 PM
Toomey just destroyed his political future.
michaelo on April 17, 2013 at 4:58 PM
May he choke on the carrion he constantly feeds on, the hyena.
NO one has ever divided the land more.
Schadenfreude on April 17, 2013 at 4:59 PM
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