[Kenny Bunk]

Harris wasn't a good candidate and was up against a smooth Dim

She was plenty good enough. And, this was a very important seat. The very least they could have done is back her up. Naive old me. I thought the point of belonging to a political party was that they supported candidates who came up through the party process.

The BushBots were down on this candidate from day 1. Hanging is too good for Mehlman.

[George W. Bush]

She was plenty good enough. And, this was a very important seat. The very least they could have done is back her up. Naive old me. I thought the point of belonging to a political party was that they supported candidates who came up through the party process.

In a good year, they would have. And she would have won, I think. They knew it was tough and they worked on races they thought they could win. They lost all those races so the point has probably become moot.

I'm not saying they did the right thing by dissing her and intervening against Graf. It was just wrong and they get no money from me, in part because of this. But in an election that was such a disaster for us, it's hard to say that anything could have won those two races for us.

It's not so much their lack of support for Harris and Graf that is damning. It's their public rejection of them and disrespecting their state party and nomination process that really should make people mad at Mehlman and the GOP. They had no right to use GOP money and power like that. Nothing entitles them to that. Chairment like Haley Barbour would never have pulled this crap on the state parties.