The Miami Herald has endorsed Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera (R), who is running for retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s (R-FL) seat in the Republican primary, calling her “a strong candidate in the race with plausible conservative ideas.”
Nothing unusual or super exciting about that.
What is unusual, however, is that Rodriguez Aguilera claims she boarded a spaceship occupied by aliens when she was 7 years old and was beamed up into space.
In this reality TV era of politics, you just can’t script stuff like this any better.
Rodriguez Aguilera says three blond, big-bodied beings — two females, one male — visited her when she was a child, and have communicated telepathically with her several times in her life.
“I had a direct contact,” she said in a 2009 Spanish-language interview with America Teve. “There were three people, who looked a bit like you,” she told the blonde hostess of the TV show. She told her that the aliens looked like the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro.
“I went in. There were some round seats that were there, and some quartz rocks that controlled the ship — not like airplanes,” she said.
They flew in the spaceship, she said, and the Christ the Redeemer type aliens told her the island of Malta was surrounded by prehistoric skulls, and Coral Castle, Florida, was a pyramid, like the ones in Egypt.
You can’t make this up.
She also said that the aliens had mentioned ISIS, though she didn’t clarify if they meant the terrorist organization or the ancient Egyptian goddess. Asked by the hostess what she meant, Rodriguez replied: “It’s very complicated to explain.”
Independent ratings from Cook Political Report, Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia and Inside Elections, list this district as “leaning Democratic.”
No word on whether the space aliens will be making a public endorsement.