If so inclined, one can admire the toughness and boldness of a hard-ass military man who makes statements like those above. If so inclined, one can also look for that kind of brashness in a political candidate. But then one has to be honest about the substance of those statements, and the spirit in which they are made. One then has to ask how a man who says those things in those ways is ever going to be able to reach across the aisle and work with the other party and the President of the United States to actually get anything constructive accomplished for his Florida constituents, or for the nation as a whole.
"People in this country are looking for leadership, not divisiveness", Ron Klein has said.
We who believe that extremism can only drive us further apart as an American People, without any chance of ever uniting us in common, problem-solving purposefulness, we can only pray that Congressman Klein is correct about a majority of the voters in his district. Wait, amend that. We also can and should contribute whatever time, energy and money we are able, to the Ron Klein for Congress campaign. And then, we shall have to wait and see...
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