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.html

[MisterP]

1. they already had a Cuban Spring: it was called 1959

[Mika]

2. Then again in 1976 ...

Info on that here ...

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-1997-98-Elections-Arnold-August/dp/0968508405

[Vogon_Glory]

3. If Cuba Has A Spring, I Doubt The Source Will Be The Miami Cuban Establishment

If Cuba has a Cuban Spring, I doubt that its impetus will come from the Miami Cuban political establishment. A bunch of right-wing politicians who have been spending nearly two decades since the fall of the Warsaw Pact shouting for increased economic warfare with the Havana regime and demanding restrictions that prevent Cuban family members from seeing each other has run through any political capital they might possibly have had with the folks actually LIVING in Cuba (Assuming that they had any to begin with).

I suspect that any Cuban dissidents have figured out that even remotely associating with such people would be absolutely toxic to anything positive they seek to accomplish.

[Lil Missy]

4. There needs to be a law banning any media coverage of noot.