Newt Gingrich And GOP Candidates Court Florida's Latinos, Gingrich Wants 'To Create A Cuban Spring'

[Judi Lynn]

Newt Gingrich And GOP Candidates Court Florida's Latinos, Gingrich Wants 'To Create A Cuban Spring'
First Posted: 1/14/12 12:07 PM ET Updated: 1/14/12 07:01 PM ET



Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a Cuban
coffee at the Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana area of Miami, Friday,
Jan. 13, 2012, (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Republican candidates are swinging through Florida, dusting off the trusty ol' "Viva Cuba libre!" -- it must be election time again.

Friday, it was Newt Gingrich's turn. He came through Miami looking for handouts and votes. That meant an obligatory stop at the Versailles restaurant in Little Havana for a cafecito -- or, in Gingrich's case, two -- and a climb back on that stale old bandwagon. At least he updated his message to say, as the Miami Herald reported, "My goal as president will be to create a Cuban Spring that is even more exciting than the Arab Spring."

Been there, heard that, said former Florida Democratic Party chairman Joe Garcia, who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress in 2010 against Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.).

"What it is is, the endless pandering," Garcia told The Huffington Post. "They all do this. And then they go away, never to be heard from again."

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/14/gingrich-republican-candidates-florida_n_1205463.htm

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1. Could he be more arrogant?

"My goal as president will be to create a Cuban Spring that is even more exciting than the Arab Spring."

So his goal as president of the United States is... to mess up in the internal affairs of other sovereign nations. Yep, makes perfect sense. Right to self-determination? What's that?

Anyway, I'd love to see him fail in that one. If the Cuban people were willing to have a "Cuban spring" it would have already happened. Some of the most repressive dictactorships of the world have been overthrowned recently, regimes which are by far less democratic and more repressive than the Cuban. I'm pretty sure the Cuban people are aware that they do have the power to change their political system whenever they want to. After all, they did it in the past. If they haven't done that so far, we should ask ourselves: do the majority of the Cuban people really want to get rid of their political system?

I doubt.