Posted on 11/13/2006 3:17:45 PM PST by MindBender26
Please pardon the Vanity, but Mel Martinez is a friend and I thought FReepers might like some insight in him.
Mel Martinez and his wife Kitty are outstanding people. Mel was born in Cuba. At 10 and 11 years old, with Castro in power, he wouldn’t take off his Catholic scapula. Other boys would hit him during basketball games because he wouldn’t disown his religion, as Castro demanded.
Mel came to this country under Kennedy’s Pedro Pan program. Imagine arriving in Miami with nothing, absolutely nothing!
I’ll cut to the chase; 25 years later, a very successful and honest lawyer, he has the happiest day of his life when he and his beautiful wife, and their kids, welcome his mother on her escape from Cuba, into the house they bought for her.
In 2000, he was recruited to run for he House seat being vacated by Bill McCollum, but said no, because he didn't want to be away from his family 3 nights a week.
When the RNC needed someone to debate Charlie Rangel, Fidel Castro's favorite congressman, on Larry King Live on CNN, we recruited Mel with just a few hours warning. Mel was the Orange County [Orlando area] mayor at the time and Rangel made the fatal mistake of underestimating him. After 60 minutes of debate, not even Larry King's "assistance" could help Rangel score even one point against Mel. In plain English, on the issue of the Elian Gonzalez, Mel Martinez had Charlie Rangel for lunch on live TV!
The Bush family saw him on Larry King and the rest is history. The president chose Mel to be HUD Secretary in his new administration, and in what is probably one of the toughest jobs in Washington, was the most successful HUD secretary was seen in 30 years.
Mel then returned to Florida and ran an uphill battle to be our senator. He beat a reasonably strong opponent, and even more importantly than that, never once veered away from his long-held principles. He is an adamant opponent of abortion, understands that the most important thing in America today is to defeat terrorism and return a sense of personal responsibility to each and every American.
I had the pleasure of flying with Mel back to Washington the day after the election. Trust me on this one, he sharp, conservative, understands the issues better than 99% of the people in Washington... and most importantly, has seen the vicious or press the nature of communism and other leftist governments up close. If there is one man in the United States that Hugo Chavez fears more than anyone else, it's Mel Martinez.... and it would be a smart if the Islamic terrorists and their fellow travelers feared him too!
There are many more wonderful things Mel has done during his career in public life, and before but I won't go into them here.
With the Hispanic vote critically important for any success in any future national election, (and growing faster than the Black vote) , the selection of Mel Martinez as a new RNC chair is a brilliant move.
Yeah, sure, you and others like you who stayed home in protest now have a real pro seal the border group running Congress...nice work.
When the republicans run conservatives I will vote for them, but not for the rinos.
Your anti business bias is what makes you Marxist. Which businesses deserve to survive and which don't in your Socialist World?
You want the gummit to control labor, which Party always runs to gummit?? Careful what you wish for.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Your 5 billion argument is a straw man. We already have a fence for them, its called the oceans.
Your hatred of Mexicans is getting a bit stale, hiding behind your red meat arguments.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Youre a dolt. Im all for lots of immigration and labor without excluding the other 5 billion humans outside of the Americas. The policy you support excludes those 5 billion.
I agree he sucks.
Mel is a friend and a good guy... and I told him to his face that he screwed this one up HUGE!
I didn’t diss her. What I meant was that a politician’s wife’s appearance does not make up in any way for his mediocrity as a political figure. It might get him a few more votes, but that’s not what I was talking about either.
My point was that “beautiful wife” was a silly, irrelevant comment in this case. The poster was trying to give Martinez credit for this. Well, lots of very unimpressive people have good-looking wives.
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