Posted on 03/24/2015 6:20:04 AM PDT by Reaganite Republican
Shortly after launching his 2016 presidential bid, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz went on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News for a full hour Monday night where he told the story of how his Cuban-born father, Rafael Cruz, fought against the dictator in charge of Cuba at time, Fulgencio Bautista, more than a half century ago.
But Mr. Cruz, 44, didn’t once mention that his father actually had fought for Fidel Castro in the early stages of the Cuban Revolution.
His dad fled the Bautista regime in Cuba in 1957, nearly two years before Castro forces succeeded in overthrowing the Bautista dictatorship.
Rafael Cruz eventually turned against Mr. Castro when he realized the revolutionary leader was a serious Marxist-Leninist who nationalized virtually every private business on the island and expropriated US. and other foreign-owned property.
In sync with the younger Cruz, Mr. Hannity also never mentioned Mr. Castro once during the entire interview with Mr. Cruz...And WHO CARES?
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“Obviously, Castro wasn’t an declared communist at the time, just leader of a popular uprising against a corrupt and brutal dictatorship. “
Exactly.
If his dad was a Communist, he would have stayed in Cuba. Obviously he is as far away from one as you can get. Certainly farther away than Obama.
the liberal bastards will do what ever, find what ever and say what ever they want if it will stop Cruz, the fear him to no end. The biggest problem I see for Mr. Cruz is NOT the liberals, its the rino establishment that I fear will not support him even though all the conservatives in America do, they will still turn their backs on him and pick some loser like Bush. Its going to be a long two years.
Idiocy.
Did he?
Maybe but, interesting the way they shade facts by leaving out content to create a whole new context.
You didn’t hear a peep out of Castro about communism in 1957... Cruz had already left the island by then.
Two and a half years later it came out... and I doubt Cruz was the only one surprised who had fought on the rebel side
Wow, that is a big bag of nothing. They are showing their desperation early.
I was surprised to see it in this paper, V- I thought they were one of us
So being against Batista is being for Castro, before Castro ever devolve Cuba into the communist dream.
This is, mind you, the same Cuba with benefit of hindsight on the devastation Castro caused over half a century that Obama EMBRACES as a new partner in the new Democrat way.
The next thing you’re likely to be hearing from the liberal media is that Ted’s children don’t really have a latin heritage because they are Hispanic quadroons (you may not hear that word, but you will hear its equivalent).....
Rush was laughing at the drive-by media for implying Cruz was strange for not using a teleprompter... like that made him a freak
Some story... whatever
Muslims.
Castro returned from Cuba to Mexico in December 1956.
As of July 1957 Castro had maybe 300 men under his command.
It seems highly unlikely that Rafael Cruz was one of this select few and then just changed his mind and emigrated.
..it is the typical librat move, history starts where they want it to...
Sorry - that should have read “from Mexico to Cuba”
Cruz is no dummy. He knows full well that when he commented on that in his announcement, people in the media would be trying to tie Castro around his neck. I bet he has a smackdown already prepared for the first lib reporter to ask him about it.
Rafael Cruz was from Matanzas, which is in northwest Cuba - about as far as you can get from the Sierra Maestras.
tcruz is rperot v2.0
the left will encourage the right to get jazzed about him. they’ll feign how much they detest his policies. the right will get all excited...
and then, just after he gets the nomination, the left will put a motion before the supreme court to have him removed from the ballot due to eligibility issues (you’d have to be pretty dull to not see the canadian born guy isn’t a natural born US citizen)
soctus will uphold the objection... and the right will cry.
the right will look for another candidate, but the momentum will have been lost.
and that’s how ewarren or hclinton will win 2016
Frankly- Mr. Cruz, Sr. saved his life by leaving Batista Cuba and NOT affiliating with Castro. First, Batista had his goons torture the man. Second, Fidel murdered MANY loyal followers of his after he took over. And “Che” did this for Fidel. It is fairly well established that Fidel tipped the CIA to Che’s location in Bolivia, so they could take him out. There can be only one (or two) Castros— a fact.
The New York Times and Herbert Mathews, backed up by the CIA and Sen John F. Kennedy, glorified the anti-Communist Fidel. The rest of the US media went along even though there were clues that was not the case.
I'm not sure that Batista tortured Rafael Cruz, or that Cruz fought for Castro.
Batista's malfeasance has been greatly exaggerated by history, and the numbers of those claiming to have fought with Castro in the early years seems to have rapidly inflated.
It seems much more likely to me that Rafael Cruz was one of the 99.99% of Cubans in 1957 who were neither imprisoned by Batista nor running around in mountain camps with Castro.
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