While her U.S. Senate campaign rains down in chunks around her head, Florida U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris proves she can be as untethered to reality as the man she put in the Oval Office.
At the same time she cancelled campaign stops in Southwest Florida, Harris placed a conference call to supporters telling them things are so great, she�s practically picking out wallpaper for her new office.
�Harris described a campaign on a roll and gaining momentum daily. She said prominent politicians, such as U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., hosted a fundraising event for her in Washington last week, proof all is well.
Back in the real world, evidence that Harris accepted bribes from the same defense contractor as California’s Rep. Duke Cunningham (whose new address is c/o Federal Prison, Taft, Calif.) continues to erode her already tenuous GOP support.
“She can’t hide and expect this to go away,” said David Johnson, a Republican political consultant�
Harris’ campaign staff declined to comment and gave no explanation of why Harris canceled the trip. They did not say how many other events were taken off her schedule.
Trying to avoid reporters is the hands-on favorite possible explanation. Harris has always had a poor relationship with the press, accusing it of doctoring live T.V. coverage during the 2000 presidential election swindle so that her makeup looked bad.
Once again, she claims the only problem is journalists.
“There is nothing to it except for the press trying to be negative.”
Yeah, that. And bribery.
Unfortunately, according to Larry Sabato, director for the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, the public buys it.
The best thing going for Harris, he said, is that most Americans think Washington is so corrupt Harris hasn’t done anything abnormal. Most people think everyone in Congress takes bundles of cash from contractors�
Johnson said�she can expect fundraising to get a lot harder, particularly in Florida.
Harris has struggled to raise money and has put $250,000 of her own into her campaign. Nelson has $8 million.
“It’s going to get worse,” Johnson said. “Nobody is going to want to give her money.”
Nonsense, Harris says. There are plenty of idiot Republicans out there dying to throw more money and support her way.
In the conference call, Harris told supporters she plans fundraisers in California, Texas, New York and Illinois. She said television talk show host Sean Hannity is planning a Florida bus tour with her. “The campaign is really off to the races,” Harris said.
Look on the bright side and just think how much trouble Hannity will be in with his spouse (or significant other, I’ve personally always thought he was gay) when they find all the make-up on his di…er…male member, yeah, yeah, his male member!
Eeoouw. Never thought of that. Bet her pillowcases get pretty messy too.