Understanding Katherine Harris, why she is the good choice, why she deserves our support !

9-6-06 | Marc Costanzo

[guitar4jesus]

"- - a loyalty that has not been reciprocated by the RNC leadership - -"

Got that right!

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Consider the alternative!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I would like to reiterate a pint I made earliar, that we should not take Katherine Harris statement that not voting Christian is a sin -

what she meant to say was that we should vote for Good Christians and not hide our faith !

Fine. My faith is Judaism. I won't be voting for Harris.

[joesbucks]

Rep Katherine Harris is human, like us all, and like all of us, she makes mistakes, we can be difficult to work with, intemperate, short with others.

Better to just say, "I was wrong to act in such and such a manner" and then apologize.

Better to just say "I was wrong to act in such and such a manner", apologize and do everything possible to make sure it doesn't ever happen again.

We all would be making hay of this if it was Hillary. Oh wait, we did.

Let's see, Ash tray thrown, Starbucks demanded. Not much difference.

[Brilliant]

I'm voting for Harris.


As an aside, though, I suspect that Nelson will be high on the Dem list for the VP nomination. They need Florida, and Nelson would likely deliver it.

That is actually all the more reason to vote for Harris. Nelson's gotta get past Harris in order to have any chance of being on the Dem ticket in 08.

[BurtSB]

who the heck believes a word from the medicrats.
the mediacrats are the opposition party.
take a look at the primary voter tune out. the repub gross total votes for the governors race greatly exceed the dems /socialist party.
K harris has a huge problem with that Jack A mess and she was not forthcoming to her political consultants about that problem which ticked them off and they all bolted.

[RNO1]

I guess you missed the point that she stated her support for Israel....and if she was speaking in front of a Jewish group that she would tell them the same thing...That she told the Christian group...I guess some missed the whole point...The seculars tell us that Christians should not have a role in politics.....That is the point she was making...It is not that difficult to understand that as a Christian or Jew you do not have to set your faith to the side to be in politics.....

[BurtSB]

K Harris should of laid low in the congress for about 10 years and then made a play for a senate seat.Her personal wealth and family wealth scared off quite a few people.
I dont understand why Jeb did not run if holding the Senate was so key for his brother to keep the mediacrats from pushing there dream of impeachment. jeb would have crushed that idiot Nelson.

[RNO1]

Who was scared off....What does her wealth have to do with it any more than others who have wealth...I guess it is just a conservative that is wealthy...Jeb had a chance and he declined...Now it is time to step up to the plate and support her instead of just asking why or what....That is all done....She won and her vote total was not that far off from Crist....Republicans down here who know her supported her..Despite all the negative and smear jobs by the liberal media and some here....She has been told time in and time out she cannot win and she has done just that....

[Gone GF]

"Some nice photos on this thread would be wellcome, some new and up to date pictures . . ."

Believe me, the older pictures are better, at least from what I've been seeing lately.

[kabar]

Man, are you wrong. She has zero chance of beating Nelson. The Republican party told her she had no chance. She is a bull-headed spoiled brat. Believe me, it is a family trait. I will vote for her, but her career deserves to be OVER after this race. She can go stand next to Dan Quayle. She is a net negative for the party.

Something you say doesn't compute. Harris has never lost an election. She has been a State senator, the Florida Secretary of State, and a twice-elected Congresswoman. She just won the Rep primary with about 50% of the vote and a victory margin of 185,000 votes over her nearest challenger. In sum, she has been a winner throughout her public career.

Why is she a net negative for the party? Because the MSM and Dems have demonized her because of Gore's loss in Florida in 2000? I also don't buy your premise that Quayle is another Rep pariah.

She has no talent. She has trouble with accepting bad news. And she doesn't appear to be able to tell truth from fantasy. Yuck!

Sounds like the Dem criticism of Bush. Katherine Harris' "problem" is that she is a winner.

During her term in the Florida state senate, Rep. Harris passed over one hundred bills, including an economic development package that helped fuel Florida’s dramatic rise from 42nd place to 1st place in the nation as a state to start a new business or grow an existing business; a significant increase in teacher salaries; and stiffened penalties for white collar crime and for crimes committed against the elderly. Cognizant of the tremendous economic benefits trade could bring to Floridians, Rep. Harris laid the strong foundation for Florida’s preeminent campaign to win the Permanent Secretariat for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), as well as working toward the unification of the Gulf region through the enhancement of investment, trade and tourism and cultural exchanges.

Rather than taking cover in the aftermath of the 2000 election controversy, Rep. Harris took the lead in the push for comprehensive election reform. In 2001, she testified before the U.S. House Administration Committee and proposed legislation that became the blueprint for Florida’s nationally acclaimed Election Reform Act. In 2002, as the reform movement waned in many states, she successfully proposed and achieved passage of historic civil rights legislation in Florida that forcefully addresses the exclusion of persons with disabilities from full and equal participation in the electoral process.

A former IBM marketing executive and vice president of a commercial real estate firm, Rep. Harris earned a Master’s Degree from Harvard University with a specialization in international trade and negotiations, and a Bachelor’s Degree in history from Agnes Scott College. She studied abroad at the University of Madrid and at L’Abri outside Geneva, Switzerland. Her commitment to public service has earned Rep. Harris numerous awards, including the Mel Fisher Award for International Trade Advocacy; the Florida Economic Development Council Legislator of the Year Award; the Florida United Business Association Outstanding Legislator Award; the Florida Arts Advocacy Award, the Sarasota Humanitarian of the Year Award and the Sarasota Statesman of the Year Award. Rep. Harris was born in Key West, Florida. She resides in Sarasota with her husband, Anders Ebbeson, and his 21-year-old daughter, Louise.

[Arrowhead1952]

The Austin paper had an oped by Leonard Pitts today that just slammed Katherine Harris. I can't find it, but he must be beside himself that she actually won the primary.

[BillCompton]

Harris has never lost an election.

This is not fooling around here. Her pride and priviledge is the ONLY reason she is still in this race. The money she used to finance her campaign was not money she had the discipline to earn. She has very little support at this level and she is costing us a chance at a Senate seat. Short of a stroke, I don't see how Nelson can lose to Rep. Harris. I am very familiar with the personalities involved and the politics. This is the kind of blue-blood Republicanism that gives our party a bad name. Her grand-father was a man to be admired. She was fine at the State level. She was over her head at the congressional level. She is completely out of her league at the Senate level. She will lose badly to an upopular incumbant who could have easiliy been defeated by a good candidate. Harris will lose by at least twenty points and she will attract almost no party support. It was the Republican party experts who were telling her she could not win, not the media.

And my reference to Quayle was not to denegrate a fine man, but you have to admit he was way out of his league in the Whitehouse. He got so nervous when asked questions he said incredibly stupid things. You can't do that. Not at that level.

Rep. Harris does well at women's clubs. That seems to be the total extent of her support and they constitute an echo chamber for her. Their voices seem to be the only ones she can listen too. I will vote for her, but I am a party line voter. If people like me were a majority, perhaps she could be elected. But I don't admire her, even a little.

[RushingWater]

Nobody is perfect for their position. I don't understand your hyper-criticism. I don't like blue-blooded Rebpulicanism either because generally they tend to be liberal on social issues - I don't think Harris is liberal on social issues and it shouldn't be a crime she inherited her wealth.

Hey let's go make Harris senator!

[danamco]

But there is definitely a problem, somewhere, and she needs to figure out how to "get a grip" and stop it with the staffing problems.

That problem is NOT with her!

Have you ever heard the Rush-expression "Drive-By" Media, or for that matter the L.S.M.? That is where the problem is, and has been with THEM since 2000, when alGore tried to steal his way into the White House!! He could have been sitting there today (a very scary thought and possibility), if it had NOT been for our dear Kathrine Harris' clean cut character!!!

[danamco]

THANK YOU, MARC, WAY TO GO!!!

[kabar]

This is not fooling around here. Her pride and priviledge is the ONLY reason she is still in this race. The money she used to finance her campaign was not money she had the discipline to earn. She has very little support at this level and she is costing us a chance at a Senate seat.

Money doesn't always buy elections nor does "pride and privilege." You give her no credit for her ability to appeal to the voters. She has been a successful politician who is a proven winner.

She has very little support at this level and she is costing us a chance at a Senate seat. Short of a stroke, I don't see how Nelson can lose to Rep. Harris.

Forget the previous polls. Harris is now the candidate running against Nelson. It will be a tough battle against an incumbent, but Harris has demonstrated the pluck and courage to challenge the establishment and win using grassroot efforts.

On all of these Harris threads, I find it interesting that most of the naysayers about Harris come from outside Florida and the supporters are Floridians. You are one of the exceptions.

She was fine at the State level. She was over her head at the congressional level. She is completely out of her league at the Senate level. She will lose badly to an upopular incumbant who could have easiliy been defeated by a good candidate. Harris will lose by at least twenty points and she will attract almost no party support. It was the Republican party experts who were telling her she could not win, not the media.

She just won the Rep primary by 185,000 votes over her nearest challenger and garnered 50% of the vote. Somebody in the Rep party in Florida supports her. Half of the current US Senators are out of their league. We will see what happens in November, but it is a bit early to concede defeat. The game just started yesterday.

And my reference to Quayle was not to denegrate [sic] a fine man, but you have to admit he was way out of his league in the Whitehouse. He got so nervous when asked questions he said incredibly stupid things. You can't do that. Not at that level.

I don't think he was in your terminology "way out of his league." The MSM tried to create a caricature of him in much the same way they did with Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, and 43. GOP Presidents and VPs are dumb, racist, puppets who are not suited for the job. I have met Qualye and heard him speak at a small gathering. He is articulate, bright, and funny. Just because the MSM made a big deal out of the spelling of the word potato doesn't make him "out of his league." What incredibly stupid things did he say?

Rep. Harris does well at women's clubs. That seems to be the total extent of her support and they constitute an echo chamber for her. Their voices seem to be the only ones she can listen too. I will vote for her, but I am a party line voter. If people like me were a majority, perhaps she could be elected. But I don't admire her, even a little.

I think you seriously underestimate her appeal to voters. She may not win, but it will be a much closer race than the polls and her detractors think.

[danamco]

(I won big in 2004 betting on Bush right when the fake early-exit polling was predicting a Kerry landslide and the odds on Bush suddenly went long.)

We in the grass-root movement here came out in droves voting for Governor Jeb Bush and President Bush in 2002 and 2004!

We will certainly do the same for Kathrine Harris Florida being a Red State!!

I saw somewhere that just in MIAMI-DADE she pulled in over 60%!!!

Hello???