Friday, October 21, 2011
Marco Rubio grasps key to Republican/Teabagger success
Lie like a rug about your past and make damn sure it conforms to approved Republican/Teabagger mythology.
Rubio has been claiming for years that his family joined an exodus from Cuba in 1959 after the revolution led by Fidel Castro. In a 2010 campaign ad, for instance, he referred to himself as the “son of Cuban exiles.”So they weren't hard core opposed to Castro and maybe they jumped the gun, fleeing Battista rather than Castro, but they were Cuban.
But naturalization papers and other official records show that his parents arrived in the United States in 1956, well before Castro took power. And they returned to Cuba several times after Castro declared the island a socialist state.
His parents waited 15 years to seek naturalization.
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