It used to be that fringe candidates for Congress could say something reckless and outrageous without being taken seriously. Now, who knows?
Larry Klayman, the former head of the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, is seeking the Republican nomination for Bob Graham's Senate seat and arguing for a hard line against Cuba. Actually, he may be arguing for making Cuba the 51st state.
A couple of years ago, way back when the United States had a reputation for seeking diplomatic solutions to foreign-policy problems, people would have considered Mr. Klayman's proposal eccentric, or worse. Now, who knows?
With Cuba, President Bush can use his "What Difference Does It Make" Doctrine, which defines wanting things as having things. It's easy to imagine Colin Powell showing off aerial photographs of Cuban banana trucks at the United Nations and talking about the likelihood that they really were mobile laboratories for biochemical agents.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/opinion_04a18dea454cf1cd1071.htmlKlayman is a Bush lapdog, and the fact that anyone in the U.S. takes him seriously, like Katherine Harris, shows us how far we've fallen since Clinton left office.