In Chinese, the word "crisis" loosely translates to "danger for Castro" and "big honking opportunity for Katherine Harris"

Suppose you're Katherine Harris. You're extremely popular among Florida Republicans (do you think Jeb Bush has any restless nights wondering what this says about the base that elected him?), but you're heading for a major ass-kicking in the general election.

Obviously, the state has a large Cuban population, whom you'd love to count as supporters. The problem is, a lot of them probably aren't too keen on the GOP right now because of how the whole immigration debate went. But now God--or Fidel Castro's aging body--might have seen fit to give you a wonderful gift.

If Castro dies, Little Havana will be partying like it's 1999. And like all drunk, happy fools, they'll be extremely open to suggestion. While the body's still warm, Harris needs to get down there. She needs to hold an impromptu campaign event right in the heart of the community.

Then she needs to take credit for killing Fidel Castro.

Not personally, of course. I would certainly buy the idea of Katherine Harris sneaking into Cuba in disguise, all Alias-like, and slipping something into his drink, but I'm not sure anyone else would. But she can certainly hint that as a member of Congress, she was part of some secret government plot to bring Castro down. A wink here, a nudge there. Slyly add, "And we'll be keeping a close eye on Raul." The crowd goes wild. And then maybe to cap it all off, she'll really bring the crazy and promise that if elected senator, she'll push for a full-scale invasion to liberate Elian Gonzalez.

Think this sounds nuts? Think it'll never happen? Look at who the candidate is. Frankly, I'm surprised she hasn't made attacking Cuba a cornerstone of her campaign, already.