Does this look like the Face of "Rightwing Extremism?"

From Eric Dondero:

How ironic. Many on the Right side of the Libertarian movement, including myself, have long considered the guys at Cato to lean slightly to the Left. They're stridently Anti-War, no different from say Justin Raimondo, Eric Garris, and AntiWar.com. They're unabashedly Pro-Gay Marriage. They worked with the Clinton administration and offered praise for Bill Clinton's economic moderate agenda in the 1990s.

Dave Boaz, Cato VP (photo), even co-wrote a book in the 1990s, attempting to re-paint libertarianism as a subset of American liberalism, "Market Liberalism."

Now the Democrat National Congressional Committee (DNCC) is hitting a Republican congressional candidate in upstate New York for his ties to the "extremist rightwing" organization.

From Ben Smith at Politico:

in a press release attacking a Republican running for Congress in upstate New York, the DCCC lashed out at his ties to the Cato Institute, the libertarian Washington think tank.

"While making today’s announcement that he will once again run for Congress in New York’s 24th District, [Richard] Hanna also launched a new campaign website where he shamelessly touts his ties to the Cato Institute, a right-wing extremist group that has long been a vocal advocate for extremist, unfair trade policies that would allow companies to ship American jobs overseas," said the press release.

The release goes on to hammer candidate Hanna as a card-carrying member of Cato:

"He is a sustaining member of the CATO Institute... The CATO Institute is a right wing extremist group..."