I may be wrong, but I thought Mel joined the Gang of 14---
He also, I think, joined Nelson to get off-shore drilling removed from the Energy Bill...
Please correct me if I am wrong, I just know that I have been highly disappointed, especially since President Bush backed him, and asked (what is her name?) the ex-Sec. in Florida, that was in charge of the Bush 2000 elections---and now she is a Representative...
"I may be wrong, but I thought Mel joined the Gang of 14--- "
You're wrong. The 7 "Republicans" included Snowe and Collins of Maine, McCain of Arizona, Graham of South Carolina, DeWine of Ohio, Warner of Virginia, and Chafee of Rhode Island.
Mel wasn't one of the fourteen.
He did, however, make recent stupid comments about GITMO that resulted in some backtraking when his constituents let them know what they thought.
I had to check this didn't come from Scrapple. LOL!!
If we're nominating someone from the Congress the only person I'll consider is Sessions.
Katherine Harris.... I think she announced she is running for the Senate in 2006.
I think he was on the liberal side on the off-shore drilling issue (which is a big thing here in Florida and to which a lot of conservatives are also opposed). I would suspect that he will come around on drilling if there's more pressure. However, I wasn't aware that he was part of the "gang of 14."
Also, in terms of his performance, he was quite conservative in his campaign, but since this is his first year in the Senate, it doesn't surprise me if he's wobbling a bit. There's obviously a lot of pressure in DC to abandon your (conservative) ideals as soon as your little tush hits the bottom of that Senate seat. I write regularly to try to give him some backbone...