Just due for a rotten legacy

Couldn't happen to a nicer enemy of the Constitution.

Katherine Harris' U.S. Senate campaign lost what was left of its core team when a top adviser, campaign manager, and communications director resigned this weekend.

Harris, a Republican congresswoman challenging incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, said Saturday she would introduce new members of her campaign early in the week.

"We are stronger as a campaign today than we were yesterday," Harris said in a press release.

Former campaign manager Jim Dornan, who resigned in November, said, "She had the best people in the country. She can't get any better than that.

"This is a campaign that is spiraling downward by the minute," he said, adding she should drop out of the race.

Her campaign has struggled since announcing plans to challenge Nelson last summer.
For months, GOP leaders in Washington tried recruiting someone else into the race, and Harris' fundraising was slow from the start. Turnover has also been a problem. She recently lost a pollster, a national financial director, treasurer and media consultant.

Advisers urged her to get out of the race. She refused and announced last month that she would spend $10 million of her own money to compete with Nelson, whom she has trailed significantly in several polls.

The AP story referenced here refers to Harris only as "a Republican congresswoman." But that's not her real legacy. The story should refer to her as "the former Florida secretary of state who, in an obvious conflict of interest, also served as George W. Bush's campaign manager for the state and ultimately called the state's disputed election for her candidate and, in exchange for her complicity in stealing the election and the presidency, was backed by the GOP in her campaign for congress."

That is this woman's true legacy. She is an election-rigging criminal who should not be allowed to live down her crimes against our country until she is held accountable for them.

But, because accountability is unlikely to get its due, we have to be satisfied that her senate campaign is in such tatters that it appears even ballot hacking and tit-hugging spandex won't save it.

Crash and burn, you scum. Crash and burn.