TEA Partiers Falling From the Sky Into Key House Races: Beware Dean Cannon!

It's like a scene from the 1984 film "Red Dawn."

First we see one parachute drop to the ground, then two. Then more. And all of a sudden the sky is dark with foreign invaders falling on Florida, on our turf, in our back yard.

It's happening right now, and this time it's not foreign invaders.

It's TEA Partiers. The fake ones who masquerade as grass-roots conservatives but are anything but. They've been invading our Florida House races all day long. And not just any old races.

Check it out. In a matter of hours we have TEA Party candidates dropping into Districts 11, 34, 38, 40, 41, 51, 73, 79, 91, 96, 115, 119 and 120. That's a baker's dozen. With more expected before the close of filing at noon Friday.

Do these upstart TEA Partiers think they can win? Of course not. But look at their chosen fields of battle. All districts that -- with a little push -- COULD be had by the Democrats. Each one a district where a TEA Party candidate could lop, say, 5 percent off the GOP vote and -- just maybe -- scrape out a victory for the Dems.

Most interesting of all is grapevine talk that before filing ends a TEA Party parachutist will land in Dean Cannon's District 35. Scary for the future House speaker. His district has moved more and more toward the Dems in recent years. A TEA Partier could give Cannon a battle worthy of his vast campaign war chest.

Look up at the sky in the morning. Let's watch where the parachutes are falling.

And somebody check for fingerprints! I sense Ron Saunders' are all over "Red Dawn 2010."