Having fended off his rivals to capture the Republican presidential nomination, Mitt Romney now faces one of the critical moments of his candidacy: the selection of a running mate. Once a bureaucratic backwater, the role of the vice president has expanded in recent years, and the vetting process has morphed accordingly.
Now that Mitt Romney has, in an important psychological sense, clinched the Republican nomination, the conversation is turning to the question of his running mate. And everyone seems to agree that Florida Senator Marco Rubio is a compelling option: young, telegenic, Hispanic and from a critical swing state. There’s just one problem — Rubio insists [...]
In an interview for the upcoming cover story in TIME, Republican Senator Marco Rubio says he wants his party to adopt a new tone to appeal to Latino voters. Excerpts of that conversation follow.
Yesterday I posted a commentary in this space on what I believe was liberal hypocrisy in the wake of last Thursday’s Washington Post article on conservative U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. But today, in fairness, I think former Massachusetts Governor and leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney should be called to question for labeling the Post [...]
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio got it from both sides this past week. First it was the birthers, who it turns out are equal opportunity delusionals. The nativist activists, who’ve misspent every waking hour since November 2008 claiming Barack Obama is not really a U.S. citizen, and therefore not really our President, have no qualms about [...]
Today’s Washington Post notes the fixation of hard-core Republican activists with illegal immigration, a phenomenon that became clear to me this spring when I saw a Republican voter suggest to Tim Pawlenty that the government threaten to shoot immigrants crossing the southern border. That sort of anger could cause headaches for Rick Perry who, despite [...]
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is having more coming-out events these days than a quinceañera debutante. On Tuesday night, the 40-year-old Florida Republican went to California to deliver a major speech on government at the presidential library of his conservative hero, the late President Ronald Reagan. The invitation, from former First Lady Nancy Reagan, made clear [...]
Mark Benjamin notes that it’s not just Jon Huntsman who is fatigued with Afghanistan and wary of Libya:
With the Republican Party swinging back towards its isolationist roots, a man in Florida takes the stage, insisting that the U.S. must be “the watchman on the wall of world freedom.” But as Tim Padgett writes over at Global Spin, Rubio’s vision of idealistic intervention may have local roots.
A guest post from TIME’s Miami bureau chief Tim Padgett So how desperate are the Democrats to keep control of the U.S. Senate? The answer is fairly clear in a story that appeared Thursday evening on Politico.com that quotes spokesmen for former President Bill Clinton claiming he tried to convince Democratic Florida Congressman Kendrick Meek [...]
