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?
I know that Ted Cruz is not lying.
I do not know if Rafael Cruz's personal history is being correctly or incorrectly represented.
Arguments? Position?
What arguments and position? simply that Rafael Cruz is not lying about his own life?
As far as you not knowing his own words, you mean you have done all this trolling and waste of time and lies and accusations against him, and you don't even know what he has said about his life?
You just did all this attacking against the man (and his son), for something you don't even know about?
The publicly available sources for Rafael Cruz's personal statements about this time all track back to a conversation an NPR reporter had with him.
The only direct quotes are not controversial: that he came here on a legal visa and that his understanding is that his exit visa from Cuba was obtained with a bribe.
The NPR report also says: "as a teenager, he fought alongside Fidel Castro’s forces to overthrow Cuba’s U.S.-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista. He was caught by Batista’s forces, he says, and jailed and beaten before being released. It was 1957"
I have found no direct quotes about being held on an Army base.
Given this paucity of data, it is very difficult to place this in a plausible historical context.
As always happens when someone spends time with a troll.
I have wasted time with a troll that wanted to burn up the thread with accusations and telling us that he was lying, and in absence of facts you packed all those long posts with irrelevant dates and specific battles and padding and meanderings and misdirection and claims, and hypothetical, and rewriting of posts and creating straw men, and it was all about something that you don’t even know anything about.
You were just arguing, to argue.
Your calling one of the most consistently conservative and longstanding posters here a troll is comical.
So this is your day to pester me, are you a stalker now?
When you first started hassling me on a thread today it was a little strange, but explainable.
Now you come to this thread, you totally ignore the thread topic and skip all of the posts, to go to mine, which was the last one, and you only want to make a personal attack, and you also ping someone else who isn’t on the thread, to share in your personal attack.
That looks like you are becoming a stalker, and carrying some personal grudge from thread to thread.
Was it my insult against Sean Penn, or Academy Award winner, Jane Fonda?
Wow. That was quite a load irrelevant rubbish. I was looking up wideawake actually and noticed your harassing posts.
So you admit stalking, you didn't come to the thread topic, you came to harass me personally.
No I admitted to looking at someone else’s posts and seeing your’s to them at the top of their page. I don’t seek out your posts. You’re entertaining and all but not HAHA funny.
Rather than stalking and personal attacks and already admitting that you just came here as a stalker, do you have anything to offer on the thread topic?
I was defending a friend on here. People here do that all the time. But I’ll withdraw from yet another pointless back & forth with you right now.
No, stalkers go to threads they aren’t on, and are not interested in, purely to make personal attacks on someone they are stalking, you even pinged another buddy.
Seriously, are you going to totally hijack this thread with your stalking, or do you have any interest or input in the thread topic?
Sorry you had to deal with the "I have no arguments, so I'll insult you again" guy.
There are guys like that on every message board!
Sorry everyone has to deal with your dishonest attacks on the minister who fought in the revolution with Castro, was jailed and tortured under Batista, and escaped Cuba to come to America.
**”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.”**
Here you go, a thread that is about guys like you, the difference is that they are at least they are looking for something to use against him, rather than make it up entirely.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3272987/posts
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