Today's endorsement of three top Cuban-American political leaders to Republican candidate Mitt Romney reinforces the odds for Senator Marco Rubio to be included in Romney's presidential ticket.
Mitt Romney with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart during a campaign appearance in Miami in November 2011. Photo Reuters
The Miami Herald today:
Mitt Romney will pick up the ultimate Cuban-American endorsement trifecta Tuesday in South Florida: The support of U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros Lehtinen and Mario Diaz-Balart, and his brother, former Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
The endorsements of the Miami Cuban-American leaders is a leading indicator that Romney is making a big push in Florida for one of its most crucial voting blocs in the state's Republican primary, scheduled for Jan. 31.The possibility of Marco Rubio running as vice-president is there:
A poll posted in November shows that Rubio would help a GOP candidate in Florida if he is included in a presidential bid. Last week, an editorial published by The Washington Post suggests that "Marco Rubio has what Mitt Romney needs in a vice president".
Last year, during the controversy about Marco Rubio parents' immigration story, it was Mitt Romney who came out in strong defense of the charismatic Cuban American leader who is known only by 54% of Latinos, according to a poll published by Pew Research Center.
Update: Just a few minutes ago, the Republican National Committee has appointed Cuban-Mexican-American strategist Bettina Inclan, as the new GOP Latino Outreach Director.Ileana Ros-Lentinen and the Diaz-Balart brothers also appear in this Spanish-language video released today by Mitt Romney's website, which is titled "Nosotros" (Spanish for us, as we.). The title for this ad should be "Nosotros los gusanos" instead.
This campaign advertising not only ignores the issue of immigration but also reveals that conservative Latinos are still mostly Miami Cubans, very much disfranchised from the huge Mexican American communities, who have mostly supported Democratic candidates in all recent Presidential elections.
However, Mitt Romney himself has Mexican-American roots. Watch the video at end of this post.
Latinos and immigration
Mitt Romney is facing strong criticizing from Latino leaders, activists and groups after he declared openly that he would veto the DREAM Act, which would benefit more than 2 million undocumented students, most of whom are of Latin American origin.
This past weekend while campaigning in New Hampshire, Romney ignored publicly a group of activists for the DREAM Act who tried to dialogue with him. Univision has posted this interview with undocumented activist Erika Andiola, and with candidate Rick Santorum who also declared his opposition to the DREAM Act:
It's interesting that both Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney share immigrant roots. Recently a video was launch by Univision, exposed Romney as a hypocrite for opposing Immigration Reform and the DREAM Act.
Mitt Romney's father is a Mexican immigrant, and his relatives were refugee immigrants welcomed in Mexico after suffering political persecution in the United States.
And also today, the endorsement of the conservative Miami Cubans [known as gusanos by leftists in Latin America] was joined by Kris Kobach, author of the racist Arizona law SB-1070 which is extremely unpopular among Latino voters.
We'll see how this goes. So far Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are the only Republican candidates courting the Latino vote.
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El Chicano Romney cant understand that Mexicans are communalist, in order for Anglo people to understand what I am saying I will say it in white(European), Mexicans and their descendants are leftist, will always be, is cultural.
ReplyDeleteThe societies south of the border are based on Commnuity and Family, those are AMERICAN (race) values, have always been.
Los Gusanos Cubanos, do not represent the Spanish speaker community in the US that comes from Mexico, Central and South America.
Los Gusanos are Cubans of European origin, they are descendants of the people who started the genocide in the Caribe and the Americas.
At least the Castros screwed the gusanos and created equality in the island by force, an unnecessary stupidity, if only Europeans had followed our American values of community and family, the real American(nativos), I am not talking about white people who call themselves American, they are not, they are Europeans.
The big elephant in the room are Mexicans and their descendants living in the US, they are already 30 million people in the US, the population of the entire Peru, or 1/3 of Mexicos, almost 84% of Colombias people, more than Venezuelans in Venezuela, 80% of Argentinians in Argentina....
Mexicans(and Central Americans) are the ones who matter now, they are the ones bringing back the Native Genetic to North America, they are the ones who are a hope for all the people living in reservations(Navajos, Cherokees, etc), Zoos made by humans for European descendants to take pictures and buy souvenirs.
This Mexican migration is an irreversible process that had started since Mexico lost half off their territory to the European expansion in our continent.
This migration is peaceful and will change the US for ever, bringing back the balance to the North of America, a balance broken by Europeans who came ILLEGALY, and Africans who also were brought ILLEGALY to the Americas(Abya Yala)
You are a liar, the fact that Romney father was born in Mexico doesn't make him a Mexican or Latino. Check your sources before posting garbage.
ReplyDeleteRomney cant be Latino, he is not a descendant of French, Italian, Spaniards, when you talk about Mexicans refer to them as the American race, otherwise do not show your ignorance. If you are not American by race, is your issue, you can still be culturally American.
ReplyDeleteAre you European?