GOP Follies I: An About Face For Harris

Katherine Harris is (in part because of the heaps of makeup she uses) the much reviled "face" of the theft of the 2000 presidential election. It was Harris, then Florida's secretary of state, who certified George Bush's win over Al Gore in that state.

Harris, who is running for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, had all but scheduled the movers for the trip from Tallahassee to Washington, but a funny thing happened on the way to victory: She became yet another small fish to get caught in the big net of the widening Republican fundraising and lobbying scandal, in this instance because of illegal donations she received from defense contractor Mitchell Wade, who has entered a guilty plea in the bribery case that brought down former California Rep. Duke Cunningham.

Harris is in hiding and her campaign is in ruins. Couldn't have happened to a nicer gal.