Karl Rove Savages Obama’s ‘Insane’ Cuba Speech: ‘Designed to Prop up’ Castros

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:

ROVE: "The president offered up a phony straw man. He says the distant past and the future was a glowing friendly relationship with Cuba. He failed to deal with the present. The present is a repressive regime which has dozens if not hundreds of political prisoners that last year swipt and detained nearly 9,000 people for the crime of criticizing their government. What the president didn't talk about was the fact that those Americans who now he wants to go to Cuba are going to be paying for their hotel rooms in U.S. Dollars and those U.S. Dollars will be used by a vast security apparatus that includes hundreds of thousands of security personnel and military forces whose purpose is to subjegate the Cuban people. We'll have Americans through trade or helping prowp that regime. The loss of support of Russia, couldn't afford to do it. They supported by Venezuela which can no longer support the regime. Now the United States is going to step in to support that security apparatus. If trade and vacation and tourism were going to change Cuba the kns and the Europeans have been doing that for decade. They have got to get the money somewhere to give them a better life than the ordinary Cuban has. The president now said the United States will help chip in to help support this onerous security apparatus that backs up a totalitarian regime." 
LEE: "I was struck by counter-terrorism comment. Ideally what do we want from Cuba? What can Cuba contribute?" 
ROVE: "What Cuba can contribute is an opportunity for its people to have a democratically elected regime that respects the rights of its people by upholding the rule of law. The Castro brothers are eventually going to die. But this policy is designed to prop up the younger men and women who stand I top the security apparatus and lived their lives in a luxury the rest of the Cubans do not enjoy and want to continue being on the top of the pyramid repressing the rest of the country. The president wants them to have shard currency reserves that will allow them to stay on top. Mind bollings comment how they are going to par is fate with us in counter terrorism. They have been terrorists. His community about development. They have used Cuban doctors and put them in vital countries to prop up leftist regimes like those in Nicaragua. To think we can find a common cause with the Castro brothers and their successors is insane."