We cats are puzzled by Willard Mitt Romney's campaign stop in Little Havana yesterday — and not because he elected to skip that venerable Cuban hangout, La Versailles.
We're wondering why he went to Little Havana at all. Because the more we think about it, the odder it seems.
Sure, it gave Silly Willy the opportunity to stand next to Baby Marco Rubio, who could then explain why he wasn't at all offended at not being picked for Vice President, despite all those weeks of frantic buzz. But Little Havana — at least, the people who can turn out for a rally in the middle of a business day because they're comfortably retired on Social Security and Medicare — is already a solid win for the GOP. Why go someplace where you've already locked up every conceivable vote? Shouldn't Romney be campaigning among the undecideds?
Okay, maybe the Romneybots would say, "We have to show Hispanics that we still care about them." But even so, Little Havana makes no sense.
The Hispanic bloc that is contestable in Florida is the Puerto-Rican-Dominican-Mexican-American vote in Central Florida. Central Florida is where the campaign will be won or lost. It's where Baby Marco rolled up decent-enough numbers among non-Cubans to help him win in 2010. In 2008, it was where Obama-Biden steamrolled over McCain and the famous quitter from Alaska to counter the Cuban vote in Miami. If Romney was truly making a pitch for Hispanics in the Sunshine State, his plane landed 250 miles off its mark.
So.... what does this mean? That Romney is not confident enough to appear before anything but a guaranteed-safe audience? That, having snubbed Baby Marco for veep, they know they really hurt themselves in Florida? That they have no idea where their nominee should be campaigning 90 days before the election?
Just another indication of a finely tuned, well-oiled, everyone-on-the-same-page political machine (not). We cats PURR.
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