The Cuba Issue in Last Night's "Debate"

Jannuary, 24th, 2012

Front Page has reported the following:

About 10% of the Florida primary voters are Cuban-Americans, prompting the moderator to ask Mitt Romney about his stance on the Castro regime and how he’d handle a potential refugee crisis if it were to fall. Romney was applauded, even though the audience was asked to be quiet, when he said he’d first “thank heavens that Castro has gone to his maker.” He sharply criticized President Obama’s softening of America’s policy towards Cuba and praised a democratic activist who died in Cuba while on a hunger strike.

Newt Gingrich was likewise applauded by following that up with saying, “I don’t think Fidel [Castro] is going to meet his maker. He’s going to another place.” Gingrich then won the biggest reaction of the night when he said that he would not tolerate four more years of the Castro dictatorship and would support a “Cuban Spring” by supporting every democratic activist achieve regime change.

Rick Santorum spoke in similar terms and broadened the discussion. He warned of the anti-American alliance that has formed between Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Iran and the “jihadists.” He said that these enemies are elated to have a base only 90 miles off the coast of Florida.

Ron Paul was the lone exception to a policy of regime change towards Cuba. He said that it is not 1962 anymore and that the U.S. should diplomatically and economically engage the Cuban regime, comparing it to how relations have improved with Vietnam.

Jorge Gonzalez' response:

1) Romney, Gingrich and Santorum are professional capitalists who hate Cuba with a passion. If any of them is elected, they could lead our planet to total destrucion.

2) Ron Paul was the only sane person in the rooom. For that reason I "temporarily" changed my voter registration in Florida last December 29 or 30. On January 31st I will be casting my vote for U.S. Representative Ron Paul. On February First or Second I will re-register again as an Independent, who has no party preference.

3) Barack H. Obama is also a failed politician, although I give him credit for having relaxed Cuba travel and remittances (for Cuban-Ammericans) to the island. His "Change You Can Believe In" of 2008 was a sad FRAUD!

4) The "dissident" who died last week in Cuba was a common convicted criminal. He, like Tamayo before him, had a suicide wish. Good ridance for the Cuban people!