Posted on 10/29/2013 6:44:53 PM PDT by markomalley
Terry McAuliffe has always fashioned himself a master salesman. He could pitch anything.
Then he went to Cuba.
McAuliffe said he journeyed to the island to sell Virginia wine and apples. Yet the Cubans scoffed at his propositions during the April 2010 visit, unmoved by the full-frontal style of persuasion that has long powered McAuliffe’s success as an investor and political rainmaker.
Cuban officials not only rejected McAuliffe, but in meeting after meeting lectured him about the supposed ill effects of the U.S. trade embargo on the island nation.
In many ways, the three-day adventure was classic McAuliffe, offering a taste of the freewheeling, even impulsive, style the Democratic candidate for Virginia governor could bring to the executive mansion if he is elected next week.
He was, in effect, winging it — relying largely on personal charm and hoping for the best, even as many of those around him say they saw little chance for success.
The trip had been intended, at least in part, to erase the sting of McAuliffe’s dismal showing in the gubernatorial race the previous year while showcasing his deal-making skills and home-state advocacy in advance of a second run for office. After it all fell apart, McAuliffe stayed in his permanently upbeat sales mode even as his travel companions privately lamented a journey that was more fiasco than triumph.
McAuliffe returned from Havana with a rosy report: “We got them to agree to open up the market for Virginia wines,” he told The Washington Post at the time. “We are going to export Virginia wines to Cuba for the first time ever.”
In reality, the sales trip was a bust.
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Hmmmmm, - - - - Commie McCauliffe went to Commie Cuba to raise Commie Money. Yup.
Success as a political RAIN maker... but not as a businessperson. Success as a liar in investments— a scam artist, pump and dump and “green” bull crap artist. He can’t sell himself much less anything that isn’t run by the machine, to do the bidding of the machine and line his pockets.
Democrats envy Castro.
Free Trade Liberals like McAuliffe just love those Commies
Cuba has nothing to trade w the US
Can there be any reason other than the standard libtard fascination with communism to explain a trade mission to Cuba?
I’m trying to think of who in Cuba would be buying a luxury item like imported wine. Probably not your average Cuban. Probably the state run coastal resorts that cater to European tourists. Precisely the sort of scenario that would spark the imagination of a “democrat”.
I had to read story line date 10/29 to make sure this was current.
What’s up with wapoo comming up with this narrative of negativity on a demo com candidate ? So late in the cycle.
Maybe not. Did he come back with campaign donations?
Free Trade Liberals like McAuliffe just love those Commies
Cuba has nothing to trade w the US
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Baseball players.
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