It has not been a few month for David Axelrod. As you surely know, Axelrod is the campaign manager of the Obama re-election effort. First, Axelrod pushed the War on Women idiocy which was all but destroyed when snobby Hilary Rosen claimed that women who spent their lives in the home do not work. In fairness, that was not Axelrod's fault. Next came the Obama assault on Bain Capital and Mitt Romney's years there. That attack has failed spectacularly. You know that the fat lady has sung when Bill Clinton calls Romney's business career "sterling" and says that Romney is clearly qualified to be president. So much for that Axelrod brainstorm. Then comes the true genius of Axelrod to think that he should go on the road to speak for Obama in Boston. When Axelrod was heckled by Romney supporters he all but melted down. Then came the amazing scheduling coup in which Axelrod had Obama out at nine fundraisers on the day of and days after terrible jobs report of last Friday. No one knew ahead of time if that report would be good or bad, but Axelrod chose just to ignore it altogether. Now we have the latest. Axelrod was once again on TV (is he running too?) When asked about Romney naming Marco Rubio as his running mate, Axelrod actually said this:
I think it would be an insult to the Hispanic community to choose Senator Rubio if the thinks that that is somehow—if Governor 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.
Get it? Nominating a Hispanic for vice president is an insult to Hispanics? I remember how incensed the Jews were when Lieberman was named by Gore. And who can forget the fury in the black community when Obama won the nomination. There were women everywhere who were extremely insulted when Ferraro was named in 1984 and Palin in 2008.
Axelrod may thing that nominating Rubio will not bring in many Hispanic votes to Romney. I think that is wrong, but Axelrod can hold that view. No sane person could think that naming Rubio is an insult to Hispanics.
Maybe it is time for Axelrod to take a vacation. The pressure seems to be getting to him.
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