David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's top campaign strategist, said to Univision that putting Rubio on the ticket would be "an insult to the Hispanic community ... if Gov. [Mitt] Romney thinks that's sort of a get-out-of-jail-free card for all of the things and the positions that he's taken."
My first thought was, "Who made Axelrod the barometer for the entire Hispanic community?" It is disrespectful for Axelrod to tell a community, to which he doesn't belong, how we would feel. Frankly, I find that insulting...
Rubio would make an outstanding vice presidential choice, not because he is Hispanic, but because of his talents, work ethic and policy acumen. To suggest otherwise, as Axelrod did, is to underestimate Rubio and try to wrongly portray him as a "token Hispanic."