Romney Invokes Castro Saying?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Dumb Things Said By Smart People
Now, one can say “Woops” in this type of situation, but how in the hell did he say the exact thing that Castro usually says?
People chuckled when presidential candidate Mitt Romney, a Mormon raised in Michigan and elected in Massachusetts, bungled the names of Cuban-American politicians during a recent speech in Miami.But when he mistakenly associated Fidel Castro’s trademark speech-ending slogan — Patria o muerte, venceremos! — with a free Cuba, listeners didn’t laugh. They winced.
Castro has closed his speeches with the phrase — in English, ”Fatherland or death, we shall overcome” — for decades.
”Clearly, that’s something he was ill-advised on or didn’t do his homework on,” said Hialeah City Council President Esteban Bovo. “When you get cute with slogans, you get yourself into a trap.”
All I want to know is who’s getting fired?
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March 19th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Just wondering why it is that every time Mitt Romney is mentioned by the MSM, that invariably his name is followed by the epithet “a Mormon”? I certainly do not hear the religion of any of the other candidates being mentioned with any regularity. In fact I would bet that most people have no clue what the other candidates religions are at all – with the exception of perhaps Obama. Sounds like a little bit of old fashioned bigotry to me.
March 20th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
I’ve noticed that too, David. I read somewhere a few weeks ago that it may be a cynical attempt to drive a wedge between Romney and Christian conservatives in the GOP, many of whom are quite ambivalent about the Mormon religion (see here for background info on this).
April 2nd, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I’ve also noticed that whenever a Republican is implicated in some minor scandal, no matter how tangential it might be, the MSM ALWAYS follows his name and position, and then (R-Tn.) or whatever state he’s from. When they report on democratic scandals, if they report it at all, they don’t tell you the congressman in question’s party affiliation. It’s most noticeable in print media. But they ALWAYS point out when it’s a Republican, and they NEVER do if it’s a democrat in the hot seat.
Look for it. I’ve come to just assume if they don’t specify the party of the legislator who’s in trouble, then it’s a dimocrite.