You've seen this already if you're watching local TV news (I've seen reports on Channels 7 and 4, so I assume it's all over the place), and it's in the Miami Herald Thursday morning, too. I put a version of this up on DailyKos on Wednesday.
What a landslide awaits the Republicans – not only nationally with their meager presidential offerings, but also in Congress where once "invulnerable" incumbents now face strong challengers.
Garcia, a 44-year-old Cuban American, is taking on Mario Diaz-Balart, whose brother Lincoln Diaz-Balart also has a strong challenge from former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez in District 21. Martinez announced his candidacy two weeks ago and received a storm of publicity from local media that relish a fight. Note that the Herald's story this morning uses the term "grudge match" on the challenge Joe Garcia is mounting.
And early next week the third Miami-Dade Republican in the U.S. House, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of District 18 which includes the Florida Keys, will get her challenge from Annette Taddeo, a dynamic Colombia-born businesswoman and traveler in high national Democratic circles.
The Democrats are offering three leaders against the incumbent rubber-stampers who wield little influence in Washington and bring little home to their districts. Now their constituents can vote in November to take the future back and put it in the hands of courageous Democrats.
On the car radio I had the pleasure of hearing Rush Limbaugh bargaining with dispirited dittoheads Wednesday afternoon. They seemed to be debating how supine to be in the face of the Democratic juggernaut. They see nothing but defeat on the presidential level and wonder if it’s better to fight hard for the Senate and House, or to "act strategically" and accept defeat in Congress, too, and – in their fantasy – to let the Democrats run the country to heck. Then they dream they could recoup in 2012.
They don’t seem to accept that they’re at around 20 percent in public esteem, and that Democrats who win the mantle of leadership are going to make the Bushite era look like an unnatural disaster – never to be repeated or even hinted at again.
Not that it’s going to be easy for our side to heal an economy slumping into recession and end the worst war of modern times, plus save the environment and fix health care.
Our missions are many and difficult, and confidence is possible only when we see that our candidates are smart and courageous. I see this in the three challengers in South Florida, and I hope the rest of this beloved but misled country is having the same good fortune with Congressional candidates.
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