Poll of “insiders”: Enthusiasm wanes for Rubio as VP pick
The decrease could be attributable to a sense that the senator, while popular among conservative activists, has yet to be vetted or tested nationally. Those fears are particularly acute among GOP officials after the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate four years ago, a decision that ultimately politically backfired on the Republican presidential nominee.
Still, Rubio’s promise remains: He’s young, telegenic, from a key state and – most importantly of all – Latino. The likely GOP nominee, Mitt Romney, is none of those things, and has struggled to attract Hispanic support even as the group is poised to play a decisive role in the presidential election.
“[Rubio's] a three-fer: young, Hispanic, and from what may be the most important state – a la 2000,” said one Democratic iInsider.
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Enthusiasm also wanes for GOP ‘insiders’ among actual voters.
Scribbler on April 6, 2012 at 9:06 PM
Enthusiasm also wanes for GOP ‘insiders’ among actual voters.
Scribbler on April 6, 2012 at 9:06 PM
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Heh .Nice.
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I wonder if it wanes because it seems whenever he is asked he says he is not interested.
CW on April 6, 2012 at 9:13 PM
The fear of Palin…
idesign on April 6, 2012 at 9:16 PM
Conservatives are like Kryptonite to these guys.
29Victor on April 6, 2012 at 9:17 PM
rubio popular among “conservative activists” yeah like joe scarborough and david brooks to name the more severe right wing among the group
renalin on April 6, 2012 at 9:20 PM
Enthusiasm also wanes from conservatives because Rubio conservative cred has been blown. He is establishment Jeb Bush’s boy.
The establishment knows that Romney is their patsy. He’s supposed to lose. It’s a Jeb/Rubio ticket in 2016.
The establishment isn’t wasting their boy on loser Romney.
Everyone knows this except for Romney supporters, duh!
Jayrae on April 6, 2012 at 9:21 PM
Point #1: Scr#w the insiders. No one cares a whit what that clown parade thinks.
Point #2: Romney should go old and boring and milquetoast and establishment Washington. Seriously. Anyone with the slightest pulse will overshadow him and the Democrat-Media complex is laying in wait to bludgeon whomever he selects to death if that person show any inkling of ability to communicate conservative ideas effectively. Pick someone whom we won’t even know is there. Also pick them early. If more than 50% of Americans go into the voting booth not knowing or caring about Romney’s running mate, the better. Ultimately, Team Romney isn’t savvy enough or gutsy enough to handle a VP with real genuine convictions, personal charisma, or who has outsider instincts. Better for them to play to their strengths — which is caution.
Robert_Paulson on April 6, 2012 at 9:25 PM
+100
Robert_Paulson on April 6, 2012 at 9:25 PM
Good for him, now he won’t have to break out the restraining orders on the GOP establishment.
ebrown2 on April 6, 2012 at 9:48 PM
doesn’t matter
No VP can make Romneycare and his other problems disappear.
james23 on April 6, 2012 at 9:56 PM
Once again the insiders got the wrong message. Also another reason why that while staying at home because you don’t like the top of the ticket, ie McVain, people don’t know what would have been preferable. We know the percent of Republicans that voted for Oboobi were just RINOs that wanted to be part of electing the first black. But those that stayed home, if they had written in or voted third party, we could get a sense of what appeals to those that didn’t got GOP.
The lesson here is if you don’t like Romney then do vote for whom you like. And let the vote tally speak for where we are really at as a nation. A vote got Oboobi distorts the level of support and could even give him a mandate. A vote for Mitt says you support him, even as you feel like a dog returning to its vomit to eat it. The insiders only register your vote, not your disgust, other than as just anecdotes.
This is why the insiders are gunshy about Rubio, because they think Sarah lost it in 2008, rather than saving McVain from a greater loss. Unfortunately, people have been nudged in to believing the canard that we only have two choices — GOP or dnc with no alternative. Ponder that.
AH_C on April 6, 2012 at 9:58 PM
well according to his words, rubio doesn’t want to be the vp nominee anyway…
i’m fine with VP rubio. i am also fine with some other people though, doesn’t have to be him.
i am soooo tired of this meme. sarah energized and boosted popularity for the GOP ticket. many people only bothered getting up off their butts and going to vote for mccain because sarah was on the ticket and they were drawn toward her conservative ideas, her genuine personality, and her about 20-year record in various important positions in alaska. (she’s not inexperienced.)
mccain was a weak candidate, and obama was a slick and savvy candidate, and obama won. sarah isn’t to blame. yet the GOP insiders/elites want to blame her for everything.
Sachiko on April 6, 2012 at 10:12 PM
The Insiders are a joke. Palin right now would have been the nominee if she ran. She has been attacked worse than anyone politically history and is much more popular than Romney with Republicans. F–K THE INSIDERS.Palin saved McCain from losing 40 states. National Journal is More Beltway Class BullS–t
CoolChange80 on April 6, 2012 at 11:39 PM
The Beltway Class is Clueless Palin was the Only thing McCain did right in his lousy campaign and the media knows it. The Beltway Class will lie to you. Palin is the greatest pick McCain could have made. Imagine if he picked Pawlenty.
CoolChange80 on April 6, 2012 at 11:42 PM
Can’t happen. Pres and VP can’t be from the same state. At least that was the law back when America had laws.
Jimmy Doolittle on April 7, 2012 at 3:45 AM
THIS.
Jimmy Doolittle on April 7, 2012 at 3:46 AM
Insiders? That’s unpossible, all the Romney supporters tell me that there is no party establishment/leadership and that everyone is exactly equal! //////
Translation: We don’t want a Tea Partier (or anyone even percieved as a Tea Partier) anywhere near this election, we’re in charge now
wingnutzTrueCons!!!Doomberg on April 7, 2012 at 3:53 AM