Reply #24: He lied about his family's exodus from Cuba [View All]

[grantcart]

He said that his family bravely fled the dictator Castro and it turns out they left a couple of years before and then flew back for family visits after Castro took power during the time that the US and Cuba still had normal relations.

They become not political refugees but economic migrants who then used oppression to make themselves look better.

For the Tea Party with their birtherism and their anti economic migration and their opposition to lying about being anti communist he managed to hit three big buttons all at the same time.

Some birthers are being reasonably consistent and saying that he doesn't meet the constitutional standard because his parents weren't citizens when he was born.

I think it does eliminate this time around as VP (which may explain why he was being shy about it from the begining) but it will be past history in 4 years.