GOP tries to dissuade Harris

[brooklynite]

By Donald Lambro
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 21, 2005

White House political strategist Karl Rove and the National Republican Senatorial Committee have been trying to talk Florida Rep. Katherine Harris out of running for the Senate next year, but have been unsuccessful thus far.

Mrs. Harris has had several private meetings with Mr. Rove and with NRSC officials, including Chairman Sen. Elizabeth Dole, North Carolina Republican, who have urged her to forgo the Republican Party's high-priority Senate race. Instead, they want her to run for a third House term, pointing to internal polling data that shows she cannot beat freshman Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in 2006.

But the congresswoman, who won national attention as Florida's secretary of state during the bitter ballot recount in the 2000 presidential election, has argued in these meetings that she has proved the polls wrong throughout her political career. To prove it again this time, she has put together a cadre of heavyweight campaign advisers, including Ed Rollins who managed President Reagan's 1984 campaign.


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Fearing that a weak Senate candidate could endanger the Republican Party's gubernatorial contest next year, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Mr. Rove and the NRSC have been urging Florida House Speaker Alan Bense to get into the race. Mr. Bense, who has been aggressively recruited by Mr. Bush back home and by Mrs. Dole and Mr. Rove at recent meetings in Washington, is said to be looking at the race but has not reached a decision.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050721-120803-1762r.htm

[BR_Parkway]

1. DNC could offer to fund her in return for her confession....

oh well, just wishful thinking - it's sure as hell not like we can go back and undo the past 4 years (wow, has it only been a little over 4? Feels like a decade at least)

[bushisanidiot]

2. It's easy to "prove the polls wrong" when you're the one in charge of

purging voter rolls.

that bitch was the MAJOR accomplice in the theft of the 2000 election.

[deminks]

3. Cruella, it's time to talk!

Those nasty GOP people are going to throw you out with the bath water. Time to talk! Do it now. Get back at them! :evilgrin:

[Love Bug]

4. I hope she runs -- serves them right

They helped make her -- now they can live with it.

[Tyler Durden]

5. Time for the 'Pukes to "eat their young."

First they enlist her aid in their fascist takeover, then they throw her to the wolves first chance they get.

Maybe we can talk them into more and similar actions.

[htuttle]

6. Harris responds:

"I can handle things, I'm smart, not like everybody says. Not dumb, I'm smart, and I want respect!"

[Mandate My Ass]

9. HAHAHAHA!!

But at least Fredo was lovable, unlike that harpy Cruella.

Maybe they can send her to Nevada to oversee the Yucca Mountain project.

[tallahasseedem]

7. I hope she does run...

so Nelson can shred her. I have been waiting for the Dems to get back at her since 2000. I can remember that recount like it was yesterday. Tallahassee was an absolute circus.

[booksenkatz]

10. Spoiled little rich girl will get her ass handed to her.

Can't wait!

[Raster]

"we don't need no stinking poll data..."

is this f'ing incredible or what? The pukes trying to talk ol' plastic face into not running because of bad poll data. I can hear her now, "screw the poll data, we can fix the totals, like we've done in the last three elections...."

[bearfan454]

11. Diebold to the rescue again ! n/t

[buff2]

8. If she stays in the race,she will win.

She is a pro when it comes to stealing elections.

[mbperrin]

12. Run, Katie, run!

It's actually a little sad that I now cheer for just about anything opposite of what the big thugs want...reactionary kneejerk was never a title I wanted, but they're makin' me do it!

[The Blue Knight]

13. If Karl Rove doesn't want her to run.

Her chances must not be that good.


So lets hope shes stupid and runs anyway :-P

[iconoclastNYC]

14. Read between the lines.

"If you can steal two Presidentials elections for Bush (and I know you can because I helped with the first one) then you can steal my election for me."

Problem is Rove and company know that the polls have to be close to steal it. They can't have any more 11 point overnight swings like they had on the Diebold 'beta' test in GA.

[KeepItReal]

15. Precisely

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