HolyCoast: Washington Post Shoots At Marco Rubio and Misses
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Friday, October 21, 2011

Washington Post Shoots At Marco Rubio and Misses

Why Rubio? Because he's being touted as a possible VP candidate and his candidacy could really shake things up. From Jennifer Rubin:
The Post reported yesterday that the parents of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had not fled Cuba after Fidel Castro had risen to power but some years before. Nevertheless, the report found: “They showed that between the couple’s admission for permanent U.S. residence and Castro’s victory on Jan. 1, 1959, his father spent five days in Cuba and his mother spent no more than two months and three days there. The passports show that Rubio’s mother made at least four short trips to the island after Castro’s victory, including a month-long stay in February and March 1961.” It was during that trip that Rubio’s mother determined she couldn’t live under the Communist regime.

Rubio put out a statement slamming the report:
To suggest my family’s story is embellished for political gain is outrageous. The dates I have given regarding my family’s history have always been based on my parents’ recollections of events that occurred over 55 years ago and which were relayed to me by them more than two decades after they happened. I was not made aware of the exact dates until very recently.

What’s important is that the essential facts of my family’s story are completely accurate. My parents are from Cuba. After arriving in the United States, they had always hoped to one day return to Cuba if things improved and traveled there several times. In 1961, my mother and older siblings did in fact return to Cuba while my father stayed behind wrapping up the family’s matters in the U.S. After just a few weeks living there, she fully realized the true nature of the direction Castro was taking Cuba and returned to the United States one month later, never to return.
They were exiled from the home country they tried to return to because they did not want to live under communism. That is an undisputed fact and to suggest otherwise is outrageous.
Unlike black voters who would vote 95% for Democrats even if they reinstated slavery, the Hispanic vote is much more fluid. An attractive Hispanic candidate like Rubio could swing millions of Hispanic votes toward the GOP ticket, and that scares the Washington Post. Otherwise, there was no reason for them to take a shot at a rookie Florida Senator.

1 comment:

Nightingale said...

Hopefully Rubio accepts the VP job if offered. Too many of the young, up and coming politicians don't want to disrupt their lives for higher profile jobs. But they owe it to their children's future to get into higher leadership positions; the Republican establishment is selling us all down the river with the Democrat riff-raft.