Even with the pictures, Repukes dare not ask Katherine Harris to step down

[LynneSin]

Let's face it - she knows how she stole the election in 2000 and gave it to her boss's brother George W. Bush. Republicans know if they piss her off then she'll could go to the press with the story of how she was the one to enable the Bush Regime to steal the 2000 election with the massive voter purge and halting the full count of the ballots.

SHe's an embarrassment but the republicans won't ask her to step aside, she's got too much goods on them.

[wakeme2008]

1. IMHO you are 100% right

They do not want to piss her off. But IMHO Jebbie is waiting until she see it's a lost cause to step in to save the day.

[katinmn]

2. Yep. They created a monster!

:evilgrin: and now they are stuck with her.

[EST]

3. Certainly fits the facts, doesn't it?

I think the threat was telegraphed to her thug masters when she stated she was going to use her own money.

[LynneSin]

5. How else can you explain how she is still running

even with all this shit against her before these pictures hit the internet.

Hell, for all we know she probably has the fix in already so she will win

[pacalo]

4. Right on! I look at her as the Martha Mitchell from the Nixon days.

Loose cannon with lots of tales to tell. And she loves attention.

[gordianot]

7. When she loses she will demand attention.

Look forward to that.

[Daphne08]

12. Remember when Martha appeared on 'Laugh In' with the

telephone?

I really did like her even if she was a bit off. Her husband was scary.

[pacalo]

14. I do remember that.

She had a down-to-earth Arkansas personality that didn't fit in well with politics, especially during a secretive Nixon administration. She began calling reporters (including Helen Thomas) to tell them about things she had seen. She had just spoken to a UPI reporter on her bedroom phone when 5 men entered, pinned her down on the bed, & gave her an injection.

Here's a couple of links:

In December 1971 a wire story ran about Vice President Spiro Agnew's gag Christmas gift list. Included on the list were: "For Martha Mitchell, a brand-new Princess phone. For John Mitchell, a padlock for a brand-new Princess phone."

"Why did Martha Mitchell call you?" someone asked me after I filed my first story based on one of her many telephone calls in which she expressed her outraged a few days after the Watergate break-in.

I wasn't the only reporter she called, but I did take her seriously and I wrote about what she told me. Sometimes the stories made it to the wire and sometimes they go spiked. But Martha perhaps put the answer best herself when she told an interviewer, "Helen knows me well enough to know I'm not going to give her a line of bull. We just kind of fell into each other's arms. Several other reporters had been recommended to me, but when I talked to them they were cold fish. They were calculating, and, I thought, unwilling to stick their necks out. Helen Thomas, I knew would print the truth no matter what it cost her personally, and I wanted the truth to be known."(1)

I don't think the dust will ever entirely settle on the Watergate scandal, but I do think Martha deserves more than a footnote in its history. She should be remembered as the woman who tried to blow the whistle on what was going on, but sometimes her stories seemed so out there, it was close to impossible to get anyone to listen. However, I listened and I wrote and I'll let history decide.

From Helen Thomas' Front Row At the White House (btw, I'm a proud owner of this book!)

Four days after the arrests at the Watergate Hotel, Martha Mitchell called a UPI reporter from Newport, California:

"I am sick and tired of politics."

"I gave (John) an ultimatum I would leave him if he didn't get out."

"I am a political prisoner."

"Politics is nothing but a cops and robbers game."

"I know dirty things."

"I saw dirty things."

"I am not going to stand for all those dirty tricks that go on."

"I am sick and tired of the whole operation."

"They threw me down on the bed, five men, and stuck a needle in my behind. A doctor stitched my fingers after the battle with five guards." (She had bruises on her arms and thighs.)

Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?

[Virginia Dare]

6. Could be why they are spreading the meme that she's crazy...

marginalizes her credibility. It's an old Bush family trick.

[yurbud]

8. she will have a sudden death or personal crisis that requires her to

withdraw.

One option is to blame her erratic behavior on a medical condition or adverse drug reaction that requires her to withdraw and seek in-patient psychiatric care until everyone forgets who she is.

Or they will just take care of her the way they do Democrats and journalists.

[Orangepeel]

9. Nah, she doesn't know anything

she only did what they told her to do -- hire Choicepoint to clear the voting rolls & certify the vote total prior to a recount. She was a good soldier, but why would they tell her anything important? She's not the brightest.

Jeb and others tried to find someone to run against her, but everybody knows they'll lose the primary (because the ONLY people who will vote for Harris are rabid republicans who will vote in the primary). Jeb also hasn't been kind to her and her flailing campaign to the press.

[LynneSin]

18. even she is smart enough to put 2+2 together and figure it out

she's not that stupid

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Well, there's always the classic Bushco solution --

which usually involves small aircraft.

[librechik]

11. pray for a big loss then a tell-all book, released in Aug 2008

please goddess!

[Inland]

13. Ain't it a shame?!? BA-HA-HA-HA!!! nt

[Divernan]

15. Guess I missed some news - what pictures?

nt

[cliss]

16. You could be right -

She's got a big mouth and she'll turn on them for sure.

But what to do with her in the meantime? I've heard that Jeb Bush wants that position.

Now I've heard the REAL reason they want her gone is because she's incompetent. She's botched some really good graft and corrupt deals....

[flpoljunkie]

17. Perhaps, but why did Ed Rollins spills the beans about her $2,800 dinner?

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-harrisdinner04apr21,0,1466319.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
Contractor picked up dinner tab for Harris

Meal may have cost up to $2,800 at restaurant where lawmaker was lobbied

Jim Stratton
Sentinel Staff Writer

April 21, 2006

A defense contractor seeking help from Rep. Katherine Harris for $10 million in federal money last year took her to one of Washington's most exclusive restaurants, where he paid for a meal that may have cost as much as $2,800 and offered to sponsor a campaign fundraiser for her.

Mitchell Wade, who pleaded guilty this year to bribing a California congressman, spent $2,800 on wine and food, said Ed Rollins, former chief political strategist for Harris in her campaign for the U.S. Senate.

In an interview with the Orlando Sentinel this week, Harris R-Longboat Key, said it was "news to me" that the total bill had been that expensive.

Rollins said he and Harris discussed the meal and its cost early this year after Wade, the central figure in a congressional bribery scandal, admitted giving kickbacks to U.S. Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California.

Wade also pleaded guilty to giving Harris $32,000 in illegal campaign contributions in 2004 -- donations she has since given to charity.

[Mountainman]

19. She needs to stay out of small planes. I really wish she would turn on

them and tell us all about the 2000 election actions taken by FLA.

[Bushy Being Born]

20. Which pictures are you talking about now?

These?

http://www.majorityreportradio.com/weblog/archives/003989.php