CUBAN AMERICAN REPUBLICANS AREN'T SUPPORTING ROMNEY-- AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MORMON THING
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Most people who have ever heard of Mitt Romney just think of him as a blundering idiot who worked hard to earn his nickname, Flip-Flop Mitt. But today in Miami, he showed Cuban-American Republicans that he can be a strong leader and he is one Republican-- probably the only Republican-- unwilling to kiss their reactionary asses for Florida's handful of electoral votes. He didn't come right out and say, "Keep your damn votes; I'm with Fidel!" But he might as well have.
Today's Miami Herald reports that the crowd was already laughing at Romney when he stumbled over local Cuban-American Republican politicians' names and stereotyped Cuban-Americans by associating them with organized crime. He referred to the Speaker of Florida's House, Marco Rubio, as "Mario" and then completely botched the pronunciation of the two most important Cuban-American congressmen in right-wing politics, the Diaz-Balart brothers.
But what really got the crowd furious was when Romney started quoting Fidel Castro during his speech, especially his trademark slogan "Patria o muerte, venceremos!" Castro has closed his speeches with that phrase (in English: ''Fatherland or death, we shall overcome") for many decades.
Local Republican politicians were fuming about what a panderer and moron Romney came off as. "Cuban-American voters have reached a level of political sophistication where the empty rhetoric of the past regarding Cuba's liberation is no longer acceptable," said state Rep. David Rivera, a Miami Republican. "Our community now demands specific policy proposals on achieving freedom and democracy for the Cuban people. Anything less is summarily rejected." Just like Romney.
UPDATE: EVEN THE BOSTON GLOBE IS GIVING UP ON FLIP-FLOP MITT?
Nah... but they ran this cute little pouty picture of him dressed in Castro drag-- still better than Giuliani's actual drag shots-- to commemorate his tossing Florida to McCain in the upcoming GOP primary battle. Dolphin Wayne Huizenga isn't holding it against Mitt. He's backing him. Still..,
Labels: Cuba, Florida, Mitt Romney, Republican presidential race
posted by DownWithTyranny @ 1:32 PM
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Get the actual facts right people…
Here is what Romney said verbatim:
Romney: “I said at the outset that the threat in Latin America is unprecedented. I say that because the Castros have a second tyrant and he has great wealth, from oil. We must stand just as firm against caudillos like Hugo Chavez, tutored by Fidel Castro. Chavez and Castro are brothers in blood, intent on personal gratification at the expense of their people. Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro have stolen the phrase – ‘Patria o muerte, venceremos.’ This phrase should not be used by dictators, but by liberators.
“There are two spheres of influence in the Western Hemisphere. One is dark, bellicose and spreads misery by denying people basic freedoms; the other shines like a powerful light, is peaceful and wants only for its people to live in liberty and prosper.
Me: From what I see it says that DICTATORS shouldn’t be using this phrase and that it should be used by LIBERATORS.
What’s the deal? Sounds like some propaganda from the left to me.
A bunch of sheep is what you all are if you take what the media gives you and regurgitate it.
Thanks .. finally we hear the facts .. and it is more manufactured rubish to the drive-by media .. the Miami Herald ..
Down with tyranny in Cuba
Romney's Web site has the text of the speech written differently than what the Herald quotes him as saying. That's not proof however that he didn't flub the speech. Remember most times you don't READ a speech. You commit certain parts to memory and glance at the text. It's possible that the speech was written correctly (even so it's a dumb observation that could have been ommitted from the speech) and he just said it wrong.
Let me see... Bush, who "won" by the barest of margins - well, both elections were apparently stolen, is a "democratically elected president", while Chavez, who got 70% of the vote in an internationally-supervised election, is a "despot".
Something seems wrong with that logic; I just can't figure out what.
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