They are saying the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear drew a crowd of over 200,000, and not a moment too soon. The march occurred the same week Lauren Valle, a Pennsylvania based MoveOn Voluneteer had her head stomped by Rand Paul Campaign volunteer, Tim Profitt. Sanity is needed indeed. In the words of the late, great Marvin Gaye, “what’s going on?” Have we honestly reached a period in the United States when we cannot disagree without coming to blows? Apparently not. On the very same day that hundreds of thousands of people gathered in our nation’s capital to call for sanity, a bit of unreasonable insanity was brewing in Florida’s 8th district race for the US House of Representatives.

Daniel Webster and Alan Grayson are in a heated match for the 8th district congressional seat currently held by Grayson. Webster has been running on a platform of fairness, honesty, truth and class. Values he claims are the opposite of his opponent – Alan Grayson and he has yet to face Grayson in two formally scheduled debates. Local Orlando Fox News affiliate recently proclaimed the race as too close to call. What happens in these situations? Campaigns pull out all the stops. They send canvassers into the field, they start phone banking, they may even show up at an opponent’s rally; if you’re a smart reasoned opponent you do what my mother always told me. You ignore the squeaky wheel, the sore thumb, the person that is making you angry. You count to three and move forward in a reasoned manner. What you do not do is gang up on a woman and stomp on her head (unless you want to go to jail). And if you are Bruce O’Donoghue, unless you want to bring bad press to the campaign you are supporting three days before a very close election, you do not storm up to an Alan Grayson supporter at a Daniel Webster rally, and lose all sensibility ripping the sign out of his hand very nearly assaulting him, in front of a film crew.

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