Posted on 07/14/2006 2:55:58 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Katherine Harris' floundering U.S. Senate campaign lost its high-level staff again this week and is groping for a message -- which doesn't surprise Republican insiders who trace the seeds of her trouble to the story of ``Joe's dead intern.''
This wasn't any old Joe.
It was Joe Scarborough, host of the prime-time MSNBC show Scarborough Country and a former Pensacola Republican congressman who was courted last summer by national Republicans to run against Harris. But before he could announce he wouldn't, Harris called major donors and suggested Scarborough would have to answer questions about the strange death of a former staff member in 2001, according to two former high-level Harris staff members, a GOP donor and Scarborough.
''That was the first clue that something wasn't right with Katherine Harris,'' Scarborough told The Miami Herald in a recent interview, noting that a medical examiner found his staff member's death was natural and not the result of foul play.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
Ruh roh
This is the first I've heard about that story. Mighty peculiar, to say the least.
Joe Scarborough hit the nail on the head when he said that Bill Nelson is "the luckiest man alive."
I'm interested in seeing how the pro-Harris sycophants are gonna spin this article.
Weird.
I was beginning to cop an attutude about the "establishment" Republicans that were not getting behind Harris.
Maybe for once, they are right.
Perhaps Joe is willing to talk about his "swap clubbing" with Gary Condit and John Kasich.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1558119/posts
Scarborough is a Republican?
Yes, he was a Republican Congressman from 1994 until he resigned a few years ago due to a back ailment. He represented the Pensacola/Bay City section of Florida.
Ping
I can answer that, as I posted about this on another thread today: here
The response? Well, it's okay for Harris to spread lies and nasty innuendo (and then try to blame someone else for doing it) because we don't like Joe Scarborough.
Unbelieveable.
Thanks for the ping, Clintonfatigued.
Prior to this, I had only heard this sad innuendo from DUmmies. Who knows, maybe Harris has a staffer DUmpster diving for "opposition research..."
You're welcome, Zerelda.
This is one of the oddest tactics I've ever seem in a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Yes. Bizarre. But then, it has actually become a business-as-usual bit of news associated with Katherine Harris.
I hope that Harris will take the opportunity presented by her illness and upcoming surgery to make a dignified departure.
Maybe we should start a pool on whether Katherine Harris will get a higher or lower percentage of the vote than did Alan Keyes in Illinois: 27.06%.
I think she'll do better.
Maybe 35-40% at best.
I worry what she'll do to the rest of the GOP ticket in Florida.
Probably by laughing at the absurdity of the knee jerk Harris haters calling anyone "sycophants". Defending someone from emotional based hysteric personal attacks is not the same thing as being "Sycophants".
Curious, wonder what the motivation is here? This relentless continual personal level attacks on Harris by 3 supposedly "Conservative" Freepers sure smells more like something the Democrats would pull. This oddly echos Democrat propaganda spewed by Moveon.org etc because they all are still pissed about the 2000 Elections. Odd to find so much bile and personally motivated malice directed at one of our own by supposedly "Conservative" Freepers.
Scarburo announced his resignation in the month of June years ago to "spend time with his family." It was effective in September when the kids were in school. One of his kids came down with juvenile diabetes. It's sad but there's something about the guy I don't like. He shoulda stayed in congress.
I find it odd that you're too blind to see an absolute failure for a Senate candidate.
I find it odd that you (which is why I used the word "sycophant") and others continue to defend her - no matter what she says or does. When I look back on it, "sycophant" was probably not the best choice of words. Would "lemming" or "Kool-Aid drinker" be more appropriate?
I find it odd that you question our conservative credentials solely because we are critical of a train wreck of a candidate.
I find it odd that any criticism of Harris is met by (a) labelling the criticizer as a DU mole (b)having made a personal attack upon Harris or (c) being told that since you're not from Florida that you should mind your business.
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