The Orlando Sentinel endorsed Republican Dan Webster today over incumbent Rep. Alan Grayson (D) in Florida’s 8th congressional district. The endorsement offers an approving take on Webster, but is largely an excoriation of Grayson:

In only two years in the U.S. House, representing a district that runs north from Celebration into Orange, Lake and Marion counties, Mr. Grayson has become nationally notorious for his over-the-top attacks on Republicans. Who could forget these greatest hits? He declared that the GOP health plan was for Americans to “die quickly” if they get sick. He used a vulgar acronym to say that former Vice President Dick Cheney should shut up. He called Republicans “knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.”
He has kept up this scorched-earth approach in his re-election campaign, branding Mr. Webster “Taliban Dan” and “a draft dodger” in a couple of ads. Independent fact-checking organizations have judged those ads as false. So have we.
Mr. Grayson’s antics are not merely an embarrassment to himself and his district. They deepen the partisan divide that has left Congress almost dysfunctional.

The Sentinel blasts Grayson for his “devil-may-attitude” and “insatiable appetite” for federal spending, while praising Webster’s “civility and statesmanship” over three decades of service in state government, and his ability to work with Democrats. Webster is the “antidote” to Grayson’s “hyper-partisan fever,” the Sentinel writes.

In case you had forgotten how outrageous Grayson’s ads have been this cycle…

An embarrassment indeed.