"Scarborough Won't Challenge Harris in Fla."

[GreenPartyVoter]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Talk show host and former congressman Joe Scarborough said Saturday he had decided not to challenge U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris in the Republican Senate primary.

Scarborough said he doesn't want to return to politics right now and instead will renew his contract with NBC to host "Scarborough Country" on MSNBC.

"When party leaders approached me three weeks ago, I told them how difficult a campaign would be this year considering my personal and professional commitments," Scarborough said. "Besides, I never cared for candidates who had to be coaxed into a political battle. Either you feel it in your gut or you don't."

Scarborough cited his show, which is taped in his hometown Pensacola, and his desire to be at home while his youngest son finishes high school.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050821/D8C3THH00.html

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. What a boring race that would have been.

Two losers fighting to the death.

I'd rather watch paint dry.

Besides, Harris will make a dandy (and well deserved) target for the democrats.

[Arugula Latte]

2. Or maybe he's afraid the dead intern in his office might haunt him.

n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I suspect that might be problematic

[zbdent]

4. Nahh, he'll just get Richard Mellon Scaife's investigative unit

in to check it out.

"Hey, we looked, and found out that she committed suicide by bludgeoning herself after she was unconscious . . ."

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. She was very talented, then. *poor kid*

[zbdent]

6. Well, it was because of her intense exercise regimen

that she could do it after losing consciousness . . .