Mario Diaz-Balart Quotes
You know, I think Marco Rubio would be a spectacular candidate for vice president. I think he would energize the country. I think he has a great story. He's bright. He's articulate.
Diaz-Balart, Mario. Interview by John King. John King, USA, CNN, 25 Apr. 2012.
In many recent Presidential elections many have thought a Vice Presidential candidate superior to the Presidential candidate. Such was also the case in 1900.
After James Garfield became the Republican nominee for President, the defeated Conkling, refusing to run for Vice President, was asked whom he personally favored to run as vice-president with Garfield. Conkling replied:. President Garfield was assassinated six months later, and Arthur became the 21st President, to Conkling's dismay and chagrin. Compare Lyndon Johnson's "Power is where power goes."
The Republican candidates were campaigning for the Primary election in Illinois. Lincoln was the first and the greatest of the Republican Presidents and a great liberal. The Republicans used to be the more liberal of the two American major parties and even referred to themselves as “radicals.” However the political parties flip flopped over time and in the 2012 primary campaign the Republican candidates were outdoing each other to show who was the most conservative and could trash liberals the most. Pointing out this contradiction between the politics of the first and most popular Republican President and the then current crop of contenders was a little embarrassing to some Republicans and a powerful anti-current Republican message to independents and Democrats.
Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart Caballero is a Republican U.S. Representative for Florida's 25th congressional district. He was elected in 2002, and his current district includes much of southwestern Miami-Dade County, including the city of Hialeah, and much of the northern portion of the Everglades.
