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I always understood that the rest of Latin Americans do not like Cubans that well. Even their Spanish is quite different than other Spanish speaking peoples.

A regular tower of Babel we've become. Apparently something that can only be overcome by a black looking but mostly Arab/white whose mother was a US citizen and whose supposed father was from Kenya even though he grew up in Indonesia and was raised by a transvestite nanny and an anti-American mother before he went to Hawaii where he was a lazy druggie.

Maybe we should focus on the person's ideas - once they've cleared the eligibility hurdles that is.

Even their Spanish is quite different than other Spanish speaking peoples.

While the slangy, rapid fire acento costal spoken around the Caribbean is tough for gringos from Mrs. Wojiezchowski'a Espanol 101, it is, I assure you, mutually intelligible everywhere en el mundo hispano. My heavily fortified Tex-Mex gets smiles in Spain, but they understand me perfectly, and I them.

Castilian Spanish was the first European language to have standard grammar and spelling, and entry was consciously made easy so newly conquered Indians could communicate. Of course on the upper levels, it is as difficult and as nuanced as Italian or French. No matter what the country, that of course is a class thing. BTW, even the lower classes en el mundo hispano, do not make the atrocious grammatical errors one hears every day in American English. Go figure.

Rubio's problem isn't Spanish. It's that he is really a bit of a fake. E.G., he allows everyone to assume that his folks were refugees from that bad boy Fidel. Not so. They came in '54. So there's less excuse for them having neglected to become citizens in time for them to bestow natural born Citizenship on wonder boy. And speaking of wonderboy and linguistics, what's with the Eyetie handle "Marco?" En espanol it's "Marcos" with an "s." This idea that suddenly the 100 million Latinos wandering around the US are going to follow this fellow into the GOP is laughable.

In fact, we could probably save the Republic if we pulled 20% of the Hispanic vote and a lousy 12-13% of the African-American vote, providing of course that the base actually shows up, at which they are really bad. Maybe that minor inroad into minorities is what the RINOs (and Marco is a RINO) are shooting for. Keep'em in the game.

Thank you for a most brilliant and disarmingly simple thought:
Maybe we should focus on the person's ideas - once they've cleared the eligibility hurdles that is.