OMG! OMG! It’s the shift! It’s the shift!
If you want to know why some of us feel the way we do, here it is in a nutshell:
Ron Paul took a risky position in Florida in Thursday’s debate, calling for communication and diplomatic relations with Cuba, saying that people's positions have changed dramatically over the last few years.
Paul said that Cuba isn’t going to invade the U.S. any time soon, and that Americans weren’t looking under their beds anymore, worried. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich followed by pledging to continue the economic embargo on Cuba and to take any action short of military invasion to upend the government of Raul Castro.
Paul’s position is a potentially dangerous one in Florida, a state with a influential voting bloc of conservative Republicans from Cuba who have long favored aggressive policies toward Havana.
But a study of Cuban American voters in Florida suggests that Paul might be right, and that voters' opinions about Cuba are changing. Support for tightening the embargo dropped by roughly half between 2004 and 2008, according to a study by Benjamin Bishin, a UC Riverside professor.
Cuban Americans’ support for easing the embargo increased to 43.4%, from 26.7% in 2004, and support for easing travel restrictions increased to 47.4% from 32.9%, Bishin found. “Cuban Americans’ attitudes on issues of U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba seems to be in transition,” he wrote in a 2009 study.
Let's reward the regime. They deserve it, right? After all, the Pope is going to Cuba. That means something, right?
What a conundrum for the "liberal" MSM!! What will they do? They hate Ron Paul and generally call him a "right-winged cook," and other such divisive terms, but he agrees with them on Cuba that almighty sacred cow! Will they bite their lip, suck it up and support him because he agrees with them on Cuba? Or will they weigh their other considerations more importantly than Cuba and continue to attack him?
The Left loves Paul's foreign policy as they believe he will close every "Imperialist" base around the world.
I wouldn't be shocked if Obama offers him the secretary of defense post.
Ese hombre esta loco!
@ Mr. Mojito - Why would Obama - who has expanded wars beyond even Bush's scope and only ended the war in Iraq because the Iraqi leadership forced him to stick to Bush's timetable - want someone who is not also an unrepentant imperialist warmonger?
Machete, one of the only things Obama does right is use killer drones - but I believe he does this begrudgingly and would love the "cover" to dismantle the "U.S. Empire" with a Republican like Paul as his cover.
No, George, it's the LA Times. Enough said.