It’s a shame. It seems that remediation just isn’t possible. I mean, they think Katherine “I’m not melting!” Harris belongs in the Senate:

“The die-hard Republican voters, they love her,” said Jennifer Duffy, editor of the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election newsletter. “They think she got a bum rap in 2000.”

Most recently, she was criticized for calling separation of church and state “a lie we have been told,” and she angered many by saying: “If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin.”

Well, that’s what The Base believes, so no wonder they voted for her.

And part of election 2006 is turning The Base into losers, and making sure everyone understands that:

It was in many ways an embarrassing result for state GOP leaders: They had urged the former Florida secretary of state, a polarizing figure since her role in the 2000 presidential election recount, not to run.

Harris now faces Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson in a race that strategists have said may be impossible for her to win. Polls have shown Nelson with a lead as wide as 30 percentage points.

Splendid. Please, let’s try to run up the score.