How many times a week do you think DWS says the word “extremist?”

(Gainesville Sun) — Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s path into politics started at the University of Florida.

She returned there Thursday in an effort to motivate students to campaign for the re-election of President Barack Obama. She told a group that mainly included students active in Democratic Party politics that it was important to get young people engaged in an election with a profound effect on issues important to them.

“This is the election of our lives. . . . The stakes have never been higher,” she said. “We have to make sure that the extremists don’t take control of our country.”

She spoke to students before a phone bank event where they called 2008 campaign volunteers to recruit them for Obama’s re-election effort. She later attended a fundraiser hosted by UF law professor and former Florida House speaker Jon Mills.

“They are so controlled by the extremists in the Tea Party now, they would just let Pell Grants wither on the vine, because they really believe that people should fend for themselves,” she said. “They believe, if you listen to (Republican presidential candidate) Mitt Romney, that corporations are people.”