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Posted on 02/27/2014 2:27:12 PM PST by neverdem
A new low in the disgrace of the American political class was reached when Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) took the floor this week to extol the virtues of Cuban communism. A new high immediately followed, as Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) rose to annihilate Harkin, and all the other miserable apologists for left-wing tyranny.
The civilized world continues to pay an appalling price for failing to cast out communism with the same vehement disgust we showed towards fascism. Among other things, the difference in our attitude toward these monstrous evils blinds us to their similarities. Too many Western politicians and academics have been driven mad by the strain of pretending that communism and fascism are opposites. They have been corrupted by the soul-deadening process of justifying, or at least politely ignoring, terrible means to reach ends they approve of… and they take a lot of the evidence for the achievement of those goals on faith, even when it comes from totalitarian liars.
This reflects not just on foreign policy, but on our domestic politics as well. Just about every big political story bubbling in the headlines today involves people who are willing to sacrifice the American system, and the rule of law, to impose their own righteous vision on a populace that grows less free by the day. I’ve never been a fan of the benevolent-dictator model of government, but I must admit it makes me extra-nervous when I look at who the American Left regards as an acceptably benevolent dictator.
How easily the modern Western liberal turns his eyes away from the brutal oppression of Venezuela or Cuba! How readily they ignore the connections between these dungeon states and the fascist horrors no one can deny. How easily they forget everything Rubio reminds them of here. The rest of us should listen, and remember.
It is best to watch and listen to Rubio’s speech, rather than reading his words, but let me give you his closing statement, and urge you to watch him build up to it:
I don’t think we should stand by here with our arms crossed, watching these things happen in our hemisphere and say nothing about them. I can close by saying this: Over the last week, I have tweeted about these issues. I get thousands of retweets from students and young people, until they shut them out, in Venezuela who are encouraged by the fact that we are on their side. What they want is what we have, the freedom and the liberty. That’s what all people want.
And if America and its policy-makers are not going to be firmly on the side of freedom and liberty, who in the world is? Who on this planet will? If this nation is not firmly on the side of human rights and freedom and the dignity of all people, what nation on the Earth will? And if we’re prepared to walk away from that, then I submit to you that this century is going to be a dangerous and dark one. But I don’t believe that’s what the American people want from us. Nor the majority of my colleagues.
http://www.humanevents.com/2014/02/26/marco-rubio-destroys-apologists-for-cuban-and-venezuelan-oppression/
...he cudda became a contender...*tsk tsk*
Harkin’s last term, thank God.
And so we should just erase our borders and give our amigos free reign. And free education. And free or low cost housing. And free ObamaFoodStamps that can be redeemed for booze and crack. And free ObamaPhones. And free ObamaCare. Ain’t freedom grand. Especially when other people pay for it.
Bump
bkmk
I watched his speech, and I loved it. I will never understand why so many U.S. politicians and celebrities praise Cuba.
He has renounced his original support for comprehensive immigration reform. Show me a pol who is or was perfect.
Marco Rubio takes the (political) 5th on whether he toked up
But they might reject you because your latest position on immigration is different from your first position on immigration, and both are probably different than your next position on immigration.
Well, the Cubanos living in the States never will; they know the truth about Fidelismo that the armchair Marxists like to blink.
I don't believe so, not now. Check comment# 11.
My view, precisely.
There is just no (as in no possible way of ever) getting past Rubio's support for amnesty for illegal aliens; and, the further insult is that he claims that it not amnesty.
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You know this had to have left a mark. I did a Google search on “Tom Harkin” + “Cuba”, and found very few liberal media accounts of his speech. Most of the results were for conservative blogs on Rubio’s takedown of Harkin, and I didn’t even put his name in the search. Evidently, the libs haven’t mounted much a defense for their esteemed Senator.
Very true. It won't convince me to vote for him for president, nonetheless, I give him credit for continuing to highlight this issue. Someone must.
You can trust Rubio, but I won’t. Its not just like he had his arm twisted and reluctantly voted for Amnesty.
Rubio pushed it, twisted other people’s arms, and said the GOP had to do it. All BS. Rush said he can’t understand why the GOP wants to hasten their demise by voting for Amnesty.
Rubio has the answer. See he was backed by the Tea Party and they worked tirelessly for him, but the Tea Party isn’t as rich as the Chamber of Whores and Karl Rove’s Pac.
These guys want a job when their days in DC are over and they will sell out the Tea Party and conservative like us
for campaign cash and a post politics cushy job.
Once a man stabs the Tea Party and conservative in the back on such a core belief and makes a 180 degree change, is he any better than John Kerry?
As long as he doesn't make more serious mistakes, I could consider him again after the 2016 election. I think everbody deserves at least one break to redeem themselves for a prior error, but not ad infinitum. Maybe Rubio's primary consideration was Romney's disastrous share of the vote from Latinos in 2012, but I don't know that's true or not.
Cruz and Rubio are the only contenders that truly understand the tyranny of the fascists and leftists.
I’m sure that their fathers escaping these hell holes have nothing to do with their passionate condemnation of communism.
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