The one-note politician toots it again: Run against him/them, and you’re a "left-wing extremist."
It’s in the Miami Herald Wednesday in all its silliness, but at least Joe Garcia got his smiling face pictured on the front of the Metro section.
MORE below, a version posted on www.miami-dade-dems.blogspot.com
If we wonder why South Florida is not exactly flourishing under its present dominant political structure, we need only recall that our Republican members of Congress are laughable. In this instance, Mario Diaz-Balart, the incumbent in District 25, has his campaign declare that Joe Garcia "continues to align himself with left-wing extremists. The latest to join the ranks is Congressman Charlie Rangel."
Oh? Charlie Rangel, decorated war veteran, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, is a left-wing extremist? No wonder we can expect to see the Everglades – the environmental jewel of this congressional district – dry up and blow away if Diaz-Balart remains in office. Why would Chairman Rangel want to arrange any special ways and means for this district with such insults ringing in his ears?
Or perhaps Diaz-Balart thinks no one is listening. Maybe ...
Since he’s paying so much attention to who’s attending fund-raisers for Joe Garcia, we should do him the same favor.
While we’re thinking Congressional here: The Herald has one more interesting piece in Wednesday’s Metro section, back inside, under the headline "Democrats bid for state seats," is a Washington story rounding up all the Democratic ambitions to take back Florida congressional seats. Good going, Herald! I wrote this up three weeks ago when it was announced that Joe Trippi was signing up to be senior media adviser for Joe Garcia’s campaign.
The Herald’s counting doesn’t extend as far as mine, though. Their story says the Democrats "are eyeing as many as six House seats in Florida," while in fact the DCCC – Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee – is eyeing eight House seats, or half of the 16 now held by the Republicans.
This, I like to say, is landslide country. And this is a landslide year.
Any Democrat who’s not thinking landslide this year is out to lunch. Skeptical? May I remind you that last weekend the NY Times/CBS New poll said 81 percent think the country is on the wrong track. Yes, 81 percent is where we go to watch landslides occur. This is the Switzerland of political landslides, avalanches, sweeping victories, changes of eras.