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 Dave Ross

Nobody wants to be vice president

April 23, 2012 @ 8:25 am (Updated: 8:27 am - 4/23/12 )

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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla, is campaigning hard not to be vice president. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

With Mitt Romney cruising to the nomination, a new race is underway -- a race NOT to be his running mate.

You see, the vice presidential race is unique. It's like an upside down presidential race. No one campaigns for it. They all campaign NOT to get it.

And this time around, no one has campaigned harder not to get it than Senator Marco Rubio.

Marco Rubio is young, catholic, Hispanic, a Tea Partier, unquestionably conservative, and from Florida. He's perfect.

And yet, last year on Meet The Press he took himself completely out of the running:

"I won't consider it. I won't be the vice president."

But then last week, during a Q&A where he was being the same question:

"Three, four, five, six, seven years from now, if I do a good job as vice president - I'm sorry."

Major slip up! Because if you want to be vice president, the last thing you do is say so! So Sunday, he goes on CNN to explain:

"I'm not going to even discuss the process anymore. I'm going to respectful of the process he's put in place," said Rubio.

Different. But still not a YES, because you never say yes until the moment you're asked.

But Dave, you say, suppose I really DON'T want to be vice president? Is there any sure-fire way to take myself completely out of the running? Well -- you could stand up in public is say your future boss is unqualified. But as Joe Biden found out, sometimes that doesn't work either.

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  • soo purletiv wrote...
    Well......
    April 23, 2012 10:31 pm
    That sure went well........
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  • CH wrote...
    With much thought I found the perfect Dick for VP . . . .
    April 24, 2012 4:51 am
    the same Dick that was standing behind Bush. Dick Cheney. Dick can run [ruin] a Country. He did it with Bush as his sock puppet.
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    What's wrong with America
    April 24, 2012 12:38 pm
    Partisan politics 100%. You got too much hatred between the party's... You hear it all over this blog... right now it's the conservatives.. and i must admit, they appear to be the best at hating people... They hate Obama so much they are willing to be hypocritical and spread lies to try and get one of their guys in office... The funniest thing is to listen to them blame the economic collapse on Obama and then say that it was Bush's policies that caught Bin laden and got us out of Iraq.... So... Obama can't take credit for anything good that's happened over the last 3 years... but he SHOULD take credit for the Recession that was underway when he took office? ..... Seriously?... the funniest part is, Even the Republicans didn't like Bush when he was leaving office... they didn't like him 4 years ago, but suddenly they do when it's conveniant... is it so hard to admit that bush sucked as a president? Get over it, move on, tell us how you would like to fix the economy and better the US not how we should change the history books to make it look like a republican wasn't responsible for the economic collapse.
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