I just finished reading the new Joe Klein book "Politics Lost" about how politicians get totally focus-grouped and turn into tiresome automatons who alienate the public.

Which brings me to the Katherine Harris run for Senate in Florida. Katherine Harris, you may recall, was the partisan hack who wore too much makeup throughout all of the 2000 ballot recount and later compared herself to Rosa Parks. Her race is thusfar a disaster and no signs that it will turn around before November.

My favorite line from a USA Today story about the dreadful-though-admittedly-un-focus-grouped candidate is this:
Harris likes tight clothing. Jim Dornan, her former campaign manager, compares it to debutante attire. It's not the type of dress a U.S. senator should or would wear, he says.
She wore a tight peach sweater to Red Belly Day, a festival named for a local fish, and sucked on a lollipop.
"Oh, no," aide Brian Brooks said as a photographer snapped pictures.