Posted on 06/30/2006 10:57:33 AM PDT by devane617
Done.
Thanks!
adorno,
You will note that JohnnyZ deliberately avoided answering your question.
There's a reason for this. He's a frequent anti-Harris troll who commonly disrupts these threads. While he tries to talk a good game, his true motives are apparent: the re-election of liberal Bill Nelson.
"McBride". Yeah, right.
I'm sure some of them are.
Based purely on her political positions, as listed in post #11, she is right down the line the perfect candidate.
You can see why the press would hate her.
What is a little harder to understand is why any Republican would go to the poll and pull the lever for Nelson, when she almost perfectly represents the opinions of most Republicans.
And the answer is, I don't believe it.
We have a few people here wishing for a "perfect" candidate who isn't running, panicking because the press hates her, panicked by poll numbers. Why would anyone choose their political positions based on polls?
Florida has a Republican governor, a Republican legislature, and I have no reason to think a Republican can't win if Republicans vote. And they do. No Republican is going to vote for Nelson. No Republican is going to go down to the polls and then not pull the lever for a Republican candidate.
These polling numbers and newspaper attacks are an attempt to shape the outcome, like announcing the winner before the polls are closed on election night. If you fall for it, it becomes true. If Repubs fail to stop Nelson, because someone doesn't like the way she wears her hair, then God help us, its going to be a long six years.
"Review of your prior posts revealed the following:
Please do me the courtesy of answering my simple question, you are responding to most everyone else.
Can't live by your own demands..."
Still weird, that was addressed to the person that posted the article to start the thread. I made one of the first replies and he just ignored it, until eventually the question was repeated by several other posters.
I told you I had been a fan of Katherine Harris but now want her to go away, don't you have anything useful to say about her that could change the minds of ex supporters like me?
To me this thread reflects the odd flatness of her unproductive campaigning, unfortunately she is hurting the party nationally, didn't even the governor give up on her?
Nelson, like Feinstein here in Calif., is not a "nutter" lefty so he doesn't gin up enough outrage to bring out good opposition candidates against him. (It appears that Fla's republican candidate pool is about as shallow as ours out here. Hell! We can't even beat a real nut-case like Boxer!) The electorate won't toss over a mild mannered fellow unless he's dogged by scandal or incompetance. The trick is to frame his record as one of the two. But you can't beat anyone by running sub-standard candidates. Harris was a bad bet!
How?
You want something that's hurting the _entire nation_ nationally? Liberal Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate.
Adorno wrote about Harris:
You Can Count On Me...
* To defend marriage, as the union between one man and one woman
* To secure our borders
* To abolish the death tax
* To support pro-growth, pro-family tax policies
* To preserve the Second Amendment (Rated "A" by the NRA - Bill Nelson is rated "F")
* To oppose the use of eminent domain by public bodies for the benefit of private entities
* To advocate for the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
* To stand against amnesty for illegal immigrants
* To reform our onerous tax code
* To give Florida the power to decide when and where off-shore drilling could occur
She's definitely got my vote.
She has my vote too. There's no way I'll vote for a Democrat.
"You want something that's hurting the _entire nation_ nationally? Liberal Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate."
It seems she is using a small, but hard core number of supporters and her personal wealth to squat on a Senate race against a not very strong democrat, which appears to have made him a shoo in for re-election.
Her effect on Florida politics is a negative without any positive gain as far as I can see, her general effect on democrat fund raising and get out the vote efforts and her efforts to cost us a Senate seat to serve her ego is hurting the conservative fight beyond the borders of Florida.
You guys must have heard some of this before, do you really think that everyone that no longer supports Harris, supports Nelson, or has become some left wing enemy, joining a media conspiracy against her?
Hmmmm. Let's see....Nelson's ACU rating of "4" or an ACU rating of "92" for Harris. What to do? What to do?
It very weird to believe that anyone other than Harris has the record, the recognition and the cash to beat Nelson. Unless, of course, you're here just to promote a third party?
Harris is through in elective politics.
The fact is, every person on this thread would vote for Harris against Nelson.
The fact also is that she is going to lose, and lose badly because she is a terrible statewide candidate.
She can't work with a staff (how many staffers have left saying she won't listen to them), and she makes some terribly embarrassing gaffes when she ought to know better.
"Nothing hurts the party nationally more than those who would speak ill of a fellow republican (remember the Reagan doctrine?). By speaking ill of a republican candidate, you favor/help the opposing party's nominee. "
The primary is where the party fights among themselves or else it really wouldn't serve a purpose, the election is when the party unites behind the candidate.
Harris has established that she cannot improve her position, She should be looking for ways to help someone else defeat Nelson.
This is about a Senate seat not a personality cult, I get it, I was a fan of hers for years, but I want that Senate seat in our column.
" Nelson gets 59 percent to Harris' 26 percent in the latest Quinnipiac University poll of Florida voters.
''She's stuck where she's stuck,''
"The poll numbers are consistent with nearly every other survey -- including a number of those done by her former staff, who advised her to get out of the race. A year ago, a Quinnipiac poll found Nelson leading Harris 50-38, and in six of their polls since, he has steadily gained while she has lost support."
"The bottom line, it doesn't make what difference she does between now and November because it's over,'' Rollins said. ``She's about 30 points behind in every poll. She'll get 40 percent of the vote. National Republicans and the White House have written her off."
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