Thanks.
Posted on 09/05/2006 10:32:44 PM PDT by JulieRNR21
HARRIS WINS REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
POISED TO DEFEAT BILL NELSON IN NOVEMBER
TAMPA, FL—Congresswoman Katherine Harris received the Republican nomination for United States Senate this evening, and celebrated her landslide victory at campaign headquarters with nearly a hundred grassroots supporters in attendance. Harris received the nomination by winning nearly every one of Florida’s 67 counties, demonstrating voters’ confidence in her leadership and ability to unseat Bill Nelson in November.
Congresswoman Harris states, “I am thankful for the widespread support demonstrated by tonight’s strong victory. I’m thankful for the personal sacrifices made by my family, staff and many dear friends who all united on my behalf because Florida deserves better than Bill Nelson. When elected to the Senate in November, I will finish the fight I started in the House and ensure that Florida remains a place where hard-working families can keep more of their hard-earned money while living in safe and affordable communities.”
While the Harris campaign is very pleased with tonight’s election results, all of our energies will continue to be focused upon unseating the do-nothing liberal incumbent, Bill Nelson. Harris’ opponent has missed countless opportunities to provide the leadership Florida deserves in the United States Senate while she has a clear record of demonstrating leadership and delivering results for all Floridians.
While serving in the State Senate, as Secretary of State, and in the United States Congress, Katherine Harris has fulfilled her promises and fought for Florida’s best interests. Throughout her tenure in public office, Harris has championed legislation to bolster Florida’s economic development, cut taxes, reduce government spending and support traditional values. Katherine Harris will continue to do what is right for the people of Florida and work to advance their values as the next Republican U.S. Senator from the great state of Florida.
For more information visit:
http://www.electharris.org
"I am not sure why the state GOP is so soundly against her"
IMHO, she has proven "too principled" to be a Senator....big money can't run Capitol Hill with too many like her up there...big money runs the GOP.......
So many people want their politics to be like sporting events. They choose their sides, and when their side loses, they say "next year, blah blah blah." I don't live in Florida, I don't know much about Katherine Harris, but I do know she followed the law and certified the election in 2000. I am grateful to her for that. She is also a Republican, and a Conservative. I like her for that. I was actually surprised to hear she won the primary as I was waking up this morning, and I wish her good luck. I don't care that the brothers Bush and their elite republican party didn't support Miss Harris, and I am seriesly disppointed by how many people on FR, most of whom I respect, that toss out their little barbs and insults. Not a single person on FR who has said petty stupid mean things about Kathrine Harris has done anywhere near for America what she has.
Not a single person on FR who has said petty stupid mean things about Kathrine Harris has done anywhere near for America what she has.
Astute observation of the keyboard commandos.
That wasn't me that said that. But I don't think he meant the Bushes themselves (although Jeb hasn't been helpful to Harris' campaign thus far).
Maybe I am the one that does not get it. I understood it was being predicted she would lose the primary, that the Republican leadership was backing her opponant.
There has never been a problem in the Republican party with the regular crowd voting Republican when the occassion called for it. There has always been a problem with the Country Club wing of the party turning tale and running (like they did with Dan Quayle) and not supporting the regular candidate when agaisnt all odds and the country club of the party they have managed to win (run-on sentence I know).
One of these days every regular Republican threatening to stay home in the election will actually happen. This electin it is happening for me. I am not going to pull a lever for a Dem. I just won't be pulling a lever.
What good are you guys? I might as well have the Dems in power and you figuring out how to get your base back than to keep getting dumped on.
Hannity is wrong on this. He wants to keep trying to influence the bad Republicans. They are never going to change their ways. They can not be impressed with anythign other than getting a big kick in the you know what.
How many successful general election campaigns have you worked for? (Let me guess: ZERO.)
As long as a candidate draw a contrast against his opponent, these "undecideds" will grow a brain and determine for themselves who's the better candidate.
The problem is that Harris has managed to draw a contrast between herself and her opponent. Unfortunately, it's a contrast that puts her in a poor light. Some of the things she's said are just plain irresponsible if you're seriously campaigning to be elected. (Voting for non-Christians equal to legislating sin, misstating the reason for low turnout at a rally, etc.)
There's no need for Harris to chase after a segment of people who don't exist
She has 100% name recognition and negatives exceeding 50% among independent voters. She does great among Republicans. Unfortunately, registered Republicans make up only about 40% of the electorate. She has 61 days to change this. It's not easy, but it can be done.
and even if they did, roughly half would support her anyway, and she'll lose her core supporters in the process.
No, you're saying she'll lose you.
Did I say one f***ing thing about her changing her message? No. I said she's got high negatives among the undecideds, and she needs to change that. You state that any effort to do that will cause her to lose your support.
You don't want Harris elected--you want her to lose to continue your perfect record.
"Voting for non-Christians equal to legislating sin"
That may not be popular, but unless the non-Christian candidate is a devout, conservative Jew (Like, for example, Ben Stein), it couldn't be truer.
"misstating the reason for low turnout at a rally
I remember that. Sounded like a cluster nooba, but I don't trust the lamestream media to tell me what really happened.
I have "misstated" things in the belief that I was telling the truth. How does that compare with Algore failing to reccognize busts of Washington, Jefferson, and others of the Founding Fathers?
What is a "moderate?"
It is a person who is only "moderately" contaminated with the insane evil that is leftism.
So, what should a candidate be willing to do to get such people to vote for her?
IMO, not very dern much.
Congratulations, you've just written off most of the Jewish voting demographic in Florida.
I remember that. Sounded like a cluster nooba, but I don't trust the lamestream media to tell me what really happened.
I was being generous by calling it a "misstatement." If a Democrat had said it under those circumstances, we'd be rightfully screaming "LIAR! LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!"
The high turnover on her staff does not fill me with confidence, either.
What is a "moderate?"
Someone who does not take doctrinally pure positions.
It is a person who is only "moderately" contaminated with the insane evil that is leftism.
OK, you're saying you want to kiss their votes good-bye, too. Let's see . . . in a two-way race, you're demanding that Harris restrict herself to 40%, and conceding 60% of the vote to Nelson without a fight. The winner is the person who gets the most votes. Conservative votes do not have a special weighting factor assigned to them; each still only counts for one vote.
How do you plan to win with a minority of the votes? I'm not getting this part of your plan.
Katherine Harris, the ballsiest politician (man or woman) on the planet!
Yeah BABY!!!
"Congratulations, you've just written off most of the Jewish voting demographic in Florida."
I guess the majority of Jews in Florida are liberals. That's what I'm told, anyway. Frankly, I'd rather set myself on fire than do what I would have to do to get their votes or the votes of any other stripe of liberal.
"I was being generous by calling it a "misstatement." If a Democrat had said it under those circumstances, we'd be rightfully screaming "LIAR! LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!"
The staffer, perhaps. It looks to me like Mrs. Harris may have been misinformed at the time she spoke.
"What is a "moderate?" Someone who does not take doctrinally pure positions."
If we concede your statement for the sake of argument, we are still left with the fact that, for conservatives, "doctrinally pure" equates to "right," in all three senses of the word. That means that people who do not take doctrinally pure positions are to that extent straying from the right...i.e., are contaminated with the insane evil that is leftism.
"in a two-way race, you're demanding that Harris restrict herself to 40%, and conceding 60% of the vote to Nelson without a fight."
I don't know that 60% of Florida voters are left of center. That looks like an assumption you're asking me to accept. Looking at the breakdown of the vote in the Dub/Algore race, I'd tend to doubt it.
Even with all the fraud the demonrats could perpetrate, even after throwing out thousands of military and other absentee votes, even after stuffing some ballot boxes and disappearing others, even after vans carting people around from polling place to polling place to vote "early and often," even after buying the votes of bums and the mentally challenged, even after "counting" room floors covered with chads, they *still* couldn't muster half the vote.
We conservatives tend to let the left bluff us. Remember, all leftists lie all the time, and that includes when they're telling us how many of them there are.
"How do you plan to win with a minority of the votes? I'm not getting this part of your plan."
I hope the paragraph above answers your question.
The paper seems to be a little anti-Katherine Harris, but if she loses,
you will probably have to let two staff writers go. You do a good
job of keeping her name in front of the voters, because I guess there
is not anything to report about Do-nothing Bill Nelson.
Thanks.
okie dokie
No, they're just not "devout conservative Jews." It is possible to be a devout Jew and not be politically conservative. Judaism is far less about politics than Islam or certain brands of Christianity are.
If we concede your statement for the sake of argument, we are still left with the fact that, for conservatives, "doctrinally pure" equates to "right," in all three senses of the word.
In other words, anyone who disagrees with you, in even one jot or tittle, is automatically wrong, and you don't want their vote.
How do you propose to win elections with only the votes of that small minority that agrees with you in every single way? I'm still not getting it.
Even with all the fraud the demonrats could perpetrate, even after throwing out thousands of military and other absentee votes, even after stuffing some ballot boxes and disappearing others, even after vans carting people around from polling place to polling place to vote "early and often," even after buying the votes of bums and the mentally challenged, even after "counting" room floors covered with chads, they *still* couldn't muster half the vote.
Gore couldn't muster half of the vote.
Senator Nelson did.
So, again . . . how do you plan to actually win the election?
A 14.6% difference in vote totals (64.0% supporting Crist vs. 49.4% supporting Harris) is "not that far off?"
Please tell me that you don't teach mathematics.
So what?
She still managed to pull more than was expected by the bashers like you....
I never doubted that she'd win the primary, and I generally stay away from predicting primary vote totals. My "bashing" has been noting that she was doing things in the primary campaign that were going to hurt her in the general election, and that she has a LOT of turnover on her staff (which is always considered to be a very bad sign). If that is bashing, then any critique of anyone's job performance is "bashing." That's a silly argument.
The problem is that she has extremely high negatives among independent voters, and she's got exactly 61 days to change those minds. Now, the question is, "How is she going to do that?"
And, no, I am NOT advocating that she take liberal positions on anything: I'm saying that she needs to convince a majority of swing voters that her ideas are the better ones, and that she's the better candidate to represent Florida in the Senate, and that their first impression of her is wrong. So how's she going to do that?
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