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>I still don't understand why the Republicans in power screwed her over....

They didn't. She screwed over herself.

Problem #1. She was never an electable statewide candidate. In reality, with rare exceptions, elections are predictable by February of the election year. She has incredible engravers, incredibly bad Q numbers, even worse Z numbers.

Florida Rs could have, and probably still can, unite behind a viable candidate to run against Nelson, but it never was KH.

I love her dearly, FEC max out to her campaigns every time, but the issue always was, and is today, CAN she be elected???? and the answer was always a resounding no.

In any military campaign, the total responsibility for everything lies with the commander. On the high seas, the captain is responsible for everything that happens on his ship.

In an campaign, the candidate is responsible for everything that happens, and recently, all these problems have been KH problems.

Regardless of which race she runs for, I'll still max out to her, but hope for everyones' sake, it os Congress again.

On the high seas, the captain is responsible for everything that happens on his ship...candidate is responsible for everything that happens

Now, that's what I call classic 'drivel'. The captain, many times is blamed because he can control what's going on " ON HIS SHIP, but less often is responsible for what happens TO HIS SHIP.

During the UBoat happy times, hundreds of ships were torpedoed and sent to the bottom. In this case the RNC is doing the sinking. As with the UBoats, the RNC will lose, but it may take a few election cycles. The upshot was that 30,000 of 40,000 German sailors were 'buried at sea'.

Sorry, I couldn't resist responding with a little 'drivel' of my own.

They didn't. She screwed over herself.

Look, Harris is not stopping other Republican candidates from running. The fact remains that no other Republican wanted to run in the race because they knew that Harris was running. This is sour grapes on the GOP establishment. Their boy Jeb doesn't want the seat, so now they're discouraged and is undermining Harris with a pathetic whisper campaign (Republican "officials" making comments to FL newsrags, etc).

But the RNC will go all out to defend RINOs such as Chafee and Specter. Go figure.

The liberal press has gone after Harris' campaign since she first announced. They are trying to knock her out of the running because she CAN beat Nelson!

It's the same thing we saw in 2000....smear campaign and politics of personal destruction....Some FReepers have joined the liberal full court press attack on Katherine!

This letter was in the Sarasota paper today and it expresses exactly what we are seeing!

She's an effective legislator

As one who campaigned for Katherine Harris in her two successful runs for Congress and who supports her current senatorial effort, I do not recognize the candidate Harris your paper describes. The hateful and fact-free letters you choose to publish are bad enough, but add to them Jeremy Wallace's guilt-by-association pieces and little truth emerges.

Forget the calumny for a change and print this: U.S. Rep. Harris is an intelligent, extraordinarily well-educated, politically astute and truly caring person, who happens to be one of the most effective of the newer legislators in D.C. In her first term, her bill to provide low-income workers with loans for first-time homeowners' down payments became law.

Many veteran lawmakers have yet to have their own bill passed. Also, on her watch, the long-sought veterans cemetery became a reality -- and was located in Harris' congressional district. These things don't just happen. It takes lots of energy, know-how and the respect of her peers.

The so-called "scandal" about MZM contributions is ridiculous. It was the contributions that were illegal -- not Harris' conduct. Her efforts to obtain a $10 million grant to bring 200 well-paying jobs to Sarasota were honest. I read that her opponent in the Senate race, Sen. Bill Nelson, sought more than $1 billion in special grants. Tell us who will benefit from that billion and whether they contributed to Nelson.

Harris has been an excellent congresswoman and will be a better senator. Despite the efforts of the media, or perhaps as a result of them, she is going to win this election. She has never lost at the polls. She is a winner.

Florida's voters are fair-minded. They will see through the smoke screen and elect Katherine Harris.

Problem #1. She was never an electable statewide candidate.

She was elected in 1998 in a statewide race with a greater percentage of the vote than Bill Nelson in 2000. She was elected in 2000...when she was "unelectable" as per the media and she was reelected in 2004 by a wider margin.

Conservatives love her in this state. RINOs on the other hand...well...you know..."to hell with them."