Posted on 03/19/2007 10:28:03 PM PDT by JohnSheppard
Cubans in Miami are steaming mad at former Gov. Mitt Romney for shooting his mouth off in stumbling Spanish, mispronouncing names and erroneously associating a notorious Fidel Castro-spewed Communist catch phrase with freedom fighters.
Politicians in South Florida have lashed out at the former Massachusetts governor and 2008 presidential hopeful for describing the socialist saying “Patria o muerte, venceremos” as “inspiring” and for claimingthe phrase was swiped from liberty-seeking Cubans by leftist admirers of Castro.
The phrase, which means “Fatherland or death, we shall overcome,” was bellowed as a political speech sign-off by the dictator for decades.
At another point in the speech to the Miami-Dade Republican Party, Romney bungled the names of prominent Cuban GOP politicians, referring to Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio as “Mario.”
Romney also garnered criticism for his hard-line stance on immigration and ending the talk with the phrase “Libertad, Libertad, Libertad,” a revolutionary saying made famous in the gangster movie “Scarface,” which many Cubans feel plays on cultural stereotypes.
But it was the former Bay State governor’s use of an infamous Fidel Castro line that sparked the most controversy.
“Hugo Chavez has tried to steal an inspiring phrase - Patria o muerte, venceremos,” Romney said. “It does not belong to him. It belongs to a free Cuba.”
But scholars and prominent Cubans contend the saying has always been a Communist rallying cry and that it represents the very essence of Fidel Castro’s oppressive regime.
“It means communism. It means Fidel Castro,” said Florida state Rep. Rene Garcia, a Republican who was at the March 9 speech. “It’s a Communist catch phrase.”
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Not just Muslim anymore.
All hail to the Anti-Westerner
Thanks for posting.
ROFLMAO....
Yes, a failed attempt at pandering. If you want a candidate who will try to pander to everybody, Mitt's your man!
Pretty much everyone in Massachusetts is sick of the phony Mitt Romney act. I've been following his political self-promotion performance very closely since his '94 campaign, and it is just disgusting at this point.
Mitt was just trying to parrot the speech that was written for him. Of course he showed that he DIDN'T understand or know anything about the "passionate" speech he attempted to deliver or the people he was talking to.
As Ana said: EMPTY SUIT.
I can't vote for this retard either.
Scratch Giuliani and Romney.
Next candidate, please.
What happens when Castro dies? Will the GOP lose Florida forever? Hopefully the Palm Beach geezers will die faster than Cubans have babies.
And the Puritans tried to live communism too. Does it mean we are all communists?
All candidates pander. That's what politicians do. Romney's no better or worse in that department.
Yeah, and Mitt was pandering to get the Catholic vote by campaigning to restore the death penalty in Massachusetts.
Ahhh...wait a second...Catholics are anti-death penalty!?
Also, all those vetoes as Governor were to get votes and to pander? Right? NOT!
Cutting 600+ state jobs in Massachusetts was to pander to the Libs in Massachusetts?
Slashing the Homeless fund by 80% or 60 million was to pander, right?
Actually, I see a lot of Reagan in him. The Libs hate him and the establishment Republicans want to take him down.
JohnnyZ, if you have been following him from way out in California since 1994, it sounds like you need to do something else more productive. Go work on your Israeli and American relations, you SocialCon! LOL!
.... by promising to exempt Catholic Charities from pro-gay regulations so they could stay in the adoption business. Until he changed his mind and said he couldn't do anything.
.... by promising to exempt Catholic hospitals from regulations mandating distribution of "emergency contraception" (regulations that he supported before he opposed). Then he was criticized for his stance, chickened out, and went back on his promise a few days later.
You are on crack. I've never even been to California.
The Boston Herald has been obsessed with undermining Mitt Romney for some while now.
I think that the paper is being kept running by publisher Pat Purcell solely for that purpose.
They're losing money about as fast as the other rag in this town.
Poor Mitt! He has some lousy aides doing his research for him.
He should hire some intelligent FReepers.
For the most part, but often they come up with peculiar editorials, and lead stories such as this one here which is both.
What is wrong with Christian communalism? It's the way the Church operated for the first couple of centuries...and very successfully.
It's pandermonium!
My reasoning for bringing this up as an irony is that good ol' Mitt was brought up with a full and complete understanding of this form of communal living.
Christian communalism? Lets hear more.
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