The corpse is not yet cold bu “Average Joe” Scarborough has written Katherine Harris’ political epitaph:
[As] the 2006 election season approached, Harris was still a political leper. GOP leaders in Washington and Tallahassee tried to talk other political figures into running against their former friend.
But everyone, including me, said no. That left Republican leaders with no other choice but to beg Harris to drop out of the race.
Staff members quit, fundraising dried up and GOP leaders mourned. But Katherine kept marching on. Even today I really think she believes that her driving ambition to be a United States Senator will be realized. But in that dream, Katherine Harris is alone.
Friends and former aids have called her delusional, suggested that she had a drinking problem or became mentally imbalanced when rejected time and again by the White House. I just think she’s mad as hell that she put her political neck on the line for the man whose White House would spend the next six years trying to do her in.
They succeeded, and because of it, Katherine Harris will be destroyed at the polls next week. And even the blind ambition of a once-bright political star will not change that fact.
