The Pendragon's Hall

Mitt Romney is rising in my estimation. At the Miami-Dade Lincoln Day dinner on Friday he laid out a seven-point plan for US relations with Latin America. His suggested stratgies include continued isolation of Castro's regime in Cuba, US support predicated on return support from the nations we aid, use of our media to properly instruct public opinion throughout Latin America so they don't have to hear it from blowhards like Chavez, improved free trade relations with Latin American nations, we must bolster relations with friendly Latin American nations, a crackdown on illegal immigration while encouraging the legal alternative, and finally, never to forget our friends in the hemisphere. Romney correctly lumped Hugo Chavez, who even now is showing his true colors as a dictator, with Fidel Castro and called for an end to both regimes, not necessarily through military involvement but through aid to those resisting them and diplomatic pressure on their tottering autocracies. Strength in the face of noise from the leftwing nutbolts now in power in Cuba and Venezuela is an absolute must in Washington. Mitt Romney continues to demonstrate his remarkable fitness for the nation's highest elected office. Let's hope the voters, Republican and otherwise, see it this way.

"It is the strength of our military, the strength of our families, the strength of the American people, the strength of the many Americans who trace their roots to the soil of Cuba and Latin America, it is all this strength that gives me such confidence that someday, soon, the people of Cuba will be free. I look forward to the day when the stain of Castro is rinsed from the Cuban soil, when the Cuban people can stand with their American brothers and sisters and say these words - Libertad, Libertad, Libertad."