Over the past several months, the democrats and their media cohorts have been hard at work on their campaign of misinformation as to who they fear most as a presidential candidate (Huntsman), and who they’re really eager to run against (Perry). Rule of thumb. Whatever comes out of David Axelrod’s Ministry of Misinformation, one can make the easy calculation that the truth is 180 degrees opposite of what they say. Last Friday on Fox, Dr. K-Hammer stated that Marco Rubio is the “prohibitive favorite” to be the GOP VP candidate next year. His Fox All Star colleagues concurred. So do I and I’m not even an All Star. I think that if Perry wins the nomination with Rubio as his running mate, we will get 8 years of President Perry and then 8 years of President Rubio. (Que mass lib head explosions… BOOM).
If Senator Rubio becomes the running mate of Governor Perry, which I believe is increasingly likely, President Obama could face his worst electoral nightmare. At the outset, both men are excellentcampaigners — articulate, likeable, attractive, and accustomed to winning elections in the diverse and large populations of Texas and Florida. Unlike Republican nominees since Reagan, Rick Perry knows how to work crowds. Perry, like Rubio, has never lost a political race. Although it is a relatively small section of his resume, his time successfully selling Bible reference books door-to-door may be as important as background in running for president.
Both Perry and Rubio have life stories which demonstrate that the American Dream really works. Perry grew up on a cotton tenant farm in the middle of nowhere and worked hard up every step in his path to success. Rubio’s parents worked in menial jobs so that their son could have a better life. Imagine Rubio campaigning in Las Vegas, where his parents worked like so many Hispanics today,cleaning rooms and tending bars. The greatest impact of these life stories is that the Republican ticket could say just how poor people need not stay poor if government gets out of the way.
Perry and Rubio are both social and economic conservatives. The left tries to downplay the appeal of social conservatism, but to take just a single social conservative issue, abortion, the latest Rasmussen Poll shows that 55% of Americans believe that abortion is morally wrong while only 30% believe that abortion is morally acceptable and 41% of Americans believe that it is too easy to get an abortion in America while only 14% believe that it is too hard to get an abortion. The vanilla question about whether Americans are “pro-choice” or “pro-life” is meaningless, if Republican candidates have the gumption to ask Obama in a debate whether he believes abortion is moral or immoral — leaving the question of federal policy on abortion aside.
This particular ticket would also have profound appeal to Hispanic voters, whose support for Obama has dropped a dramatic 36 points since he took office. The impact of Rubio on the ticket, of course, is obvious: he would be the first Hispanic on a major party ticket in American history. Big chunks of Hispanic voters in 2008 voted for Obama because he was a “person of color.” Reelecting a black man president has much less psychological value to Hispanic voters than electing a Hispanic who could easily be president in eight years.
Read the rest here: The Ticket Obama Fears Most. HT Weasel Zippers.
Tags: Marco Rubio, Rick Perry
