It's never too early to start planning for the 2008 election media campaign

Democrats would do well in the 2008 election running advertisements consisting solely of footage of Republicans on the stump. I don't know why in 2004 Kerry didn't run an ad showing George Bush stumbling trying to respond to a reporter's question, had he ever made a mistake in his four years in office? It was a priceless display of about five minutes of cluelessness, which could have been accompanied by a scroll at the bottom: $300 billion deficit, Iraq, torture, Enron,...

Let's not make the same mistake in 2008. If Newt Gingrich is the Republican candidate, I expect to see ads in the Miami area showing him saying (as reported by the Washington Post):

"The American people believe English should be the official language of the government. . . . We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto."

Those Cuban voters who have swung the Florida vote Republicans' way the last two elections will really enjoy hearing that Republicans think they're a bunch of ghetto-dwellers. (By the way I've been to Miami - pretty swanky ghetto if you ask me.)