Fidel responds

At Monday night's Florida GOP debate, Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum tried to outdo each other in pandering to the Cuban exiles living in South Florida. Romney and Gingrich vied in their speculations about what will happen when Fidel Castro dies.

Romney said his response would be first to "Thank Heavens" that Fidel had "returned to his maker."   Gingrich jumped in with:  "I don't think Fidel's going to meet his maker. I think he's going to go to the other place."

This was all larded with heaps and heaps of condemnation of Obama's "weakness" in easing restrictions and sanctions on this "communist" enclave just 90 miles from our shore.  They would tighten them instead.   Gingrich said he would authorize increased covert actions to bring down their government

Only Paul showed any sense in this exchange.   He said "We ought to be talking to the Cubans instead of trying to kill them. . . .  The Cold War is over."

So now the 85 year old Fidel Castro has responded:

"The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is – and I mean this seriously – the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been."

Amen to that.

Ralph