Katherine Harris autographs a voting machine for Frank Luntz

[Cocoa]

I kid you not...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/22/AR2005092201427_pf.html

The slender brunette in a black sheath and white fitted jacket leans forward and, in an elegant cursive script rarely seen these days, writes: "Frank -- What an exciting, fun genius you are! Many thanks for all you have accomplished for us and for our nation! Wishing you all the very best always. With deepest respect and highest regard, Katherine."

The inscribee is Frank Luntz -- Republican pollster, strategist, phrasemaker and corporate marketeer -- who has dispensed advice to the likes of one-time House speaker Newt Gingrich, New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, maverick presidential candidate Ross Perot and no-descriptors-required Playboy magazine (he studied its sinking circulation).

The writer is Katherine Harris, two-term GOP congresswoman from Sarasota and, more importantly, the Florida secretary of state who played a key role in helping George W. Bush win the White House in 2000.

The object across which she guides her ever-present calligraphy pen is a Palm Beach County voting machine of the sort that produced those notorious hanging chads and the most bitterly contested American presidential election of the 20th century. Then she writes an equally florid message on a yellow ballot, oblivious to the all-star baseball game blasting on a nearby television and the bipartisan buzz of 200 pols, Hill staffers, journos, lobbyists, lawyers and bureaucrats schmoozing and sweltering indoors and out at Luntz's annual, mid-July barbecue.

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[cally]

1. I hate this woman

and I hate few people. :argh:

[madeline_con]

2. "... oblivious ..."

:puke:

[cdeca2005]

3. boooooooo..... hisssssssssss...NT

[stevedeshazer]

4. Wow. I was sure this was satire, but it's not.

:(

[Cocoa]

17. this stuff can't be made up

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. 'slender brunette'?

"Hideous crone" is more like it.

[madeline_con]

7. "Emaciated mousey haired hag" works, too.

:)

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Yeah, but

it's harder to fit in a two-column headline.

[omega minimo]

6. Are you sure that's not Vonnegut?

[Z_I_Peevey]

8. This makes me rethink my position on the c-word.

Because that's the only one that comes to mind.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Ugh!

What a bitch! She knows she's spitting in all of our faces with that crap!

[nonconformist]

10. "I steal elections! Here, want my signature on a voting machine?"

:puke:

[BiggJawn]

11. So did she rub her titties up against him too?

Slinky Little Black Dress, that Miss Amurrika "See? they're REAL" pose on FAUX the other week...

So what's the strategy here? Is it "Katherine Harris, you want her in Bed, you'll want her in the Senate"?

[Cocoa]

12. vice versa

Frank rubbed his titties up against Katherine. :scared:

[Mr_Spock]

14. Oh, it's Katherine Whoris again

She is responsible as anyone for Bush's destruction of the USA. She is responsible for hsi reign of terror. She needs to be held accountable for the thousands of dead people after she played RW politics with the vote count in 2000. She is the most despicable person in this country.

[troubleinwinter]

15. OK, so I really AM in the Twilight Zone.

[lpbk2713]

16. Question:

Which one is the horse's ass?