When it comes to Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) support for the Obama administration’s new policy on Cuba, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said the senator from Kentucky doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
“Like many people who have been opining, he has no idea what he’s talking about,” Rubio said during an appearance on Fox News’ “The Kelly Report” that was flagged by Politico.
The comments came a day after President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. would open diplomatic relations with Cuba. Rubio has been one of the most energetic lawmakers bashing the move but Paul, slower than some of his Republican colleagues to weigh in, said that the U.S.’s half century embargo on Cuba “just hasn’t worked.”
“If the goal was regime change, it sure doesn’t seem to be working,” Paul said in an interview earlier in the week on West Virginia radio station WVHU. “Probably it punishes the people more than the regime because the regime can blame the embargo for hardship.”
Rubio, of Cuban descent, and Paul have both been mentioned as possible 2016 presidential contenders.
…and you do, Marco H-2-O?
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Marco Rubio doesn’t even know how his own family came to Florida from Cuba, why would we take him seriously about anything?!
Marco strikes me as incredibly dangerous. Willing to take any stance to advance himself. Without any ethical principles other than self-advancement. In short, the sort of Cuban whose incredibly corrupt rule made Castro, by contrast, look saintly to the majority of the Cuban people. We shouldn’t forget that the Cubans in exile were originally comprised almost entirely of the mobsters and their cronies who had ruined Cuba prior to the revolution. They arrived in yachts, not on rafts.
On the other hand, is President Rubio what we need to finally bring about a socialist revolution in the States?