What if Rubio were to run?

[Reaganfan]

http://politicalinsider.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11122/is-marco-rubio-positioned-to-run-for-president/

What if...following his dramatic comeback in the Florida GOP Senate race and his prominent rise to the scene, Marco Rubio becomes a Senator in 2011, and a groundswell of support begins for him to run for President...and he does so...

Obama wouldn't be able to attack Rubio on his limited Senate experience, because that would be the pot calling the cettle black (no pun), and Rubio could be a formidable force.

A strong conservative, popular already, from an important swing state, could attract Latino voters in important states like New Mexico and Nevada...and has a gorgeous wife...

[Bull Moose Base]

http://politicalinsider.blogs.heraldtribune.com/11122/is-marco-rubio-positioned-to-run-for-president/

What if...following his dramatic comeback in the Florida GOP Senate race and his prominent rise to the scene, Marco Rubio becomes a Senator in 2011, and a groundswell of support begins for him to run for President...and he does so...

Obama wouldn't be able to attack Rubio on his limited Senate experience, because that would be the pot calling the cettle black (no pun), and Rubio could be a formidable force.

A strong conservative, popular already, from an important swing state, could attract Latino voters in important states like New Mexico and Nevada...and has a gorgeous wife...

Presidential candidates begin their campaigns about the time Rubio would be sworn in if he wins his senate race.  Obama was in the U.S. Senate, siting on the foreign relations committee, for 2 years (not like Rubio would 2 days) before he was a presidential candidate. Rubio's title "Senator" would be as superficial a reason to support him as his hot wife since it wouldn't correspond to any real experience he had before running for president.  He may as well run right now as Florida state legislator.  Though the Republicans would accuse Obama of being hypocritical, it wouldn't really be true since he was more experienced when running for president.  Many Republicans of course would be hypocrites since they cited experience as a reason to fear Obama in 2008 and in 2012 would pretend they don't remember saying that.










 

[pragmatic liberal]

The only way I could see it would be as a late or last-minute entry in the extremely unlikely event that  GOP primary voters are horribly divided. For example, if it looks likely in December that nobody will be able to win a majority of delegates, in which case Rubio could make some late filings and hope to emerge as the consensus candidate. Or if there's a brokered convention.

Still wildly unlikely. For a normal campaign he'd have to declare as soon as he was sworn in or within a few months.

[pbrower2a]

The only way I could see it would be as a late or last-minute entry in the extremely unlikely event that  GOP primary voters are horribly divided. For example, if it looks likely in December that nobody will be able to win a majority of delegates, in which case Rubio could make some late filings and hope to emerge as the consensus candidate. Or if there's a brokered convention.

Still wildly unlikely. For a normal campaign he'd have to declare as soon as he was sworn in or within a few months.

In that scenario, just about any Republican politician could get the nomination as the result of a brokered convention.  With little preparation and no organization behind him just about any Republican nominee would, whether a small-town mayor or a Senator approaching the end of a long and distinguished career, would fare badly against a well-organized and well-funded Obama campaign.   

[exopolitician]

He wouldn't.

[Bull Moose Base]

By the time 2012 rolls around, Marco Rubio will have had more experience in politics than Obama.  Plus he's smarter, better-looking, from an actual swing demographic, and has a hot wife who really puts Michelle to shame.  It's rubio time

Well, as long as we're basing your political decisions on important factors like wife hotness, America should be just fine.  Obama already has more relevant experience than any potential Republican nominee will have in 2012.  I'm assuming Bush Sr. will wait for 2016.