Dim Bulb Diane Watson

Back in 1986, I ran against then-State Senator Diane Watson in the the South Bay (which includes Hawthorne, where I lived) area of Los Angeles County. I had no desire to become state senator, but I was asked to run for the GOP nomination in the district so that I can make appointments to the California Republican State Central Committee (California Republican Party). It was a project by conservatives to prevent a liberal Republican from becoming state party chairman. I won the GOP primary and had to face Watson in the general election.

Needless to say, I lost the election (the district was and remains heavily Democratic) but got the appointments. We succeeded in preventing the state party chairmanship from going to a liberal.

I thought then that Diane Watson was not the brightest bulb on the marquee. She is now a member of congress and the other day she made some astounding comments about Obamacare, Cuba and those who oppose President Obama. If Watson's congressional district were at least 40% Republican, she'd be gone in an instant.

On Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution:

It was just mentioned to me by our esteemed speaker, "Did anyone say anything about the Cuban health system?" And let me tell you before you say, "Oh, it's communist," you need to down there and see what Fidel Castro put in place. And, I want you to know... Now, you can think whatever you want to about Fidel Castro but he was one of the brightest leaders I have ever met!

On Obama's opposition:

Now when a Senator says that this will be his Waterloo and we all know what happened at Waterloo, then we have him and he fails. Do we want a failed state called the United States? So remember, they are spreading fear and they're trying to see that the first president who looks like me, fails. And I want you to know people look at the United States as a country that has changed its way and has elected someone from Kenya and Kansas. I'll put it like that.

It is almost as if she's confirming what the "birthers" suspect, namely, that Obama was born in Kenya.

On wanting Obama to fail:

Do you know what that means? If the president, your commander-in-chief, failed, America fails.

No, we want Obama's socialist agenda to fail.

See for yourself, here's a video of Watson making her comments:



She embodies a old saying: "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

It appears Watson has been taking lessons in stupidity from her chum, Rep. Maxine Waters.