socialism? rampant environmentalism?

I have to hand it to Florida Governor Charlie Crist. The $1.7 billion deal for Florida to buy out US Sugar and try to restore water flows from Lake Okeechobee south into the Everglades is audacious and I hope effective.

Can't you imagine how the right-wing noise machine would criticize this if Crist were a Democrat, not a Republican? "Socialism!" "Rampant anti-human environmentalism!" "Econazism!"