Alex Sink: Nearly half of you are extremists (Updated)

Alex Sink, Democratic candidate for Florida governor, seems to think that a strong plurality of Americans are extremists.  At least if we take seriously a recent Rasmussen poll that had 49 percent supporting a lawsuit to stop the implementation of ObamaCare.

Here is part of the missive sent out by the Sink campaign:

Unfortunately, in spite of the clear need to focus on helping Florida's families who are struggling in today's economy, Bill McCollum, ever the politician, is busy touting his latest political stunt to sue the federal government in Washington.

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Bill McCollum's partisan games won't help Floridians struggling with our economic crisis. But what his political circus will do is convince those groups shouting extremist rhetoric that he is one of them -- and that they should open their wallets and help fund his campaign.

Forty-nine percent want the federal government sued over ObamaCare.  Bill McCollum agrees with that.  He's one of them.  One typical of "the groups shouting extremist rhetoric" (like what rhetoric, Alex?).

So, roughly 49 percent of you apparently qualify as extremists in Sink's mind.

It seems to me that a person running for governor ought to know about unfunded mandates and how they can impact a state budget.  This statement from the Sink campaign makes it look like she is content to pretend that the issue doesn't exist.

As for McCollum, if he really is "busy touting" his lawsuit then he should be careful how he does it.  The lawsuit is not likely to work.  Losing a lawsuit is no sure way to glory.  But at least the lawsuit will draw attention to the plight of the states.  They are effectively forced by the federal government to spend money, yet the state governments have no representation in the federal government since the 17th Amendment went into effect.  Shades of "taxation without representation."  In other words, tyranny.

The people of Florida will have a tough time keeping their own state government solvent if somebody doesn't fight Washington's unfunded mandates.  Are you up for that fight, Alex Sink?


Update: 

I should have looked closer at the Rasmussen data.  The percentage in Florida, 54 percent, is higher than the national average.  Most Floridians are extremists, presumably right wing.