Betcha thought it was going to be about Ann Coulter...


Katherine Harris

Run, Katherine, Run! The best news of the week is that Katherine Harris not only remains in the race for US Senate, but her poll numbers are still stinking up the joint - which means that this seat is a sure-fire win for the Democrats, barring any dubious election fraud of course. Now, since Harris is the poster-child of election fraud, I guess we can't rule out that possibility. But when you're trailing in the polls by 56 percent to 27, it gets awfully hard to pull out a magical come-from-behind victory. Of her recent poll numbers, she said, "It's a tough environment for Republicans now. I'm confident that we'll continue to only go up." Continue to only go up? Harris has lost a net seven percentage points in the last two months - she was behind by 53 percent to 31 in February.

Harris isn't doing herself any favors, mind you. Last week the Orlando Sentinel reported that she is a former dinner guest of one Mitchell Wade - the man who earlier this year pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bribe Duke Cunningham. And we all know how that turned out. According to the Sentinel, the dinner "may have cost as much as $2,800" and Wade "offered to sponsor a campaign fundraiser for her." (Oh yes, did I mention that Wade also "pleaded guilty to giving Harris $32,000 in illegal campaign contributions in 2004?") When the Sentinel asked Harris about her dinner with Wade, she gave several conflicting stories before her spokesman called the paper and "asked a reporter not to publish anything Harris had said Wednesday night about the dinner." Nice try.

But don't count Katherine out yet - she's got a sure-fire campaign strategy which is bound to pull her lackadaisical poll numbers up by the bootstraps.

First, she's started labeling her opponent, Bill Nelson, as a "liberal." Ooh, scary stuff. That should flip those poll numbers in a heartbeat.

Second, she's sticking close to the man Rolling Stone magazine last week called "The worst president in history."

"Think about the consequences in 2008," Harris said at a sparsely-attended campaign stop last week. "Do you think our country would have been safer with Al Gore as president? Do you think our economy would have been stronger with John Kerry as president?

Because, you know, running on the awesomeness of President George W. Bush is going to be a winning strategy this year.

And third, she's going to hypnotize young men into voting for her by playing footsie with them. That's right. You heard me. Mother Jones reporter Stephen Elliott attended a Harris press event last week and was so disturbed by the candidate's Mrs. Robinson-esque advances toward a 20-year-old student reporter (whom she waylaid for a "nuclear conversation") that he snapped some pictures. Here they are (thanks to DU's hvn_nbr_2 for cleaning them up):




The young man told Elliott, "I had my face in my notepad a lot, because every time I looked up she was so close to me." Yikes!
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/242

He probably wouldn't mind so much if it was Barney Frank playing footsie with him. Right?

The woman is old enough to be his mother. She's 49.

GRAND THEFT AMERICA
http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html

That bitch gave us 8 years of Dubya illegally (with help from Jeb).

I don't wish her well in anything she does in life.

Hevusa and intangible child's immaturity is showing. Sour grapes is all you have and nothing more. Poor losers are crybababies that dominate the left. You didn't get your way so you mock and lie. Very mature.

No, you are way behind alias. It has been so long we are drinking sour wine at this point. Next election we will make a list of Christians to remove to even things out.

Now you sound even more immature. So much for tolerance. I thought the left was supposed to be tolerant? That's what you all keep telling us. Maybe you should just be honest about it and state that you are tolerant as long as people agree with you and put your phoney better-than-thou act you all portray to rest.

It was sarcasm to show how strongly I feel about the voter injustice in Florida.

What injustice was that?