Rubio’s False Bio: Why It Matters | FrumForum

Sen. Marco Rubio

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is on the shortlist of many for VP.  But he was recently busted for claiming on his Senate website that his parents fled Castro.  Actually they came here when Castro was in exile - before he returned to the island to begin a guerrilla war in the mountains.
Rubio offered an implausible explanation:
 “My understanding of my parents’ journey has always been based on what they told me about events that took place more than 50 years ago — more than a decade before I was born. What they described was not a timeline, or specific dates.”

Really? They were never clear to you - an aspiring politician - and you never asked  What happened to you under Castro?  When? Why?  How you did you flee? And what did you do when you got here?   Actually the answer is clear: he lied about his family history and he lied when he got caught because central to his public identity is the anti-communist street cred that comes from being from a Cuban family that "fled communism".  Being from a family that immigrated to America to improve their economic situation is problematic for a Tea Party favorite these days.
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