Katherine Harris: Martha Mitchell Redux? (Charlie Reina)

[Canuckistanian]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlie-reina/katherine-harris-martha-_b_27636.html

Another week, another mis-step by the volatile, what'll-she-do-next Katherine Harris. This time, a false claim of support from four fellow-Floridians in Congress for her bid to unseat Democrat Bill Nelson in the U.S. Senate.

It turns out not only that the four have not endorsed Harris, but that one of them has actually signed on with another Republican candidate for the nomination.

So, with the Sept. 5 primary less than three weeks away, questions about Harris's credibility - not to mention her sanity - continue, as they say, to swirl. In fact, there's so much swirling going on that it harkens back to the days of Martha Mitchell.

Remember Martha? She was the wife of Richard Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell. When Nixon lost control of the Watergate investigation, it didn't take Martha long to realize that her husband - the Man Who Knew Too Much -- would become Nixon's chief fall guy.

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So far Harris has not been Martha Mitchell-ized by her party - at least not as brutally. For one thing, she's done a good job of sabotaging herself, pulling gaff after gaff in this laughable campaign. The worst she has suffered at the hands of her Republican "friends" - from staff members up to Governor Jeb Bush -- is their abandonment, mostly without criticism, of her campaign.

~snip

Visions of a Cunningham-style downfall might well make short work of Harris's party loyalty. Who knows what names she would name, and what proof she might be able to provide?

A blast from the past, for all of us old-timers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell

[John Q. Citizen]

1. Man, i sure hope she wins the nomination. n/t

[Vidar]

2. The comparison only works if Harris rats the pugs out.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Yeah, I don't think she even knows she's a joke yet

I predict that sometime in 2009, on a Saturday afternoon, she'll suddenly say, "Hey.....".

[opihimoimoi]

4. Leona Hemsley...the Queen of MEAN.....

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Martha Mitchell was a tragic figure in a Greek tragedy.

I read her biography a few years back. Unfortunately for her, she was not the Lady MacBeth as she is suggested to be. It was worse. She was a true believer of Richard Nixon, his mission, his leadership, his vision of the country. She always referred to him as "Mr. President" (not Richard or Mr. Nixon). While she enjoyed the social perks in D.C. Society that comes with her husband positioned as Attorney General, she indepedently became disillusioned as she was faced with new ugly truths. And between the truths and the life she was trapped in, she began to drink to escape. And hence the midnight phonecalls to the media, who valued and mocked her simultaneously. She wanted her husband to extricate himself from this corruption, but he refused. He might have threatened to have her committed to a mental institution.

The mother of a friend of mine knew Martha well. I heard that when she was preparing to serve John with divorce papers, her attorney told her to run up the credit cards the night before with a shopping spree to beat all records, leaving him with the bill. That must have hurt.