ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER... & AT THE RATE THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING, ONE IS HOW MANY REPUGS WILL BE SUPPORTING KATHERINE HARRIS BY NOVEMBER

As of this moment, if someone-- anyone thinks Katherine Harris is of sound mind, they are clearly as delusional as she is. And yesterday's Orlando Sentinel hammers home another nail into the coffin of her implausible case for sanity. In a desperate bid to bolster the moribund cross between an evangelical revival tent roadshow and a circus sideshow that she calls her "campaign" for a U.S. Senate seat, Harris trumpeted another series of high profile endorsements.

Little tiny problem-- all the endorsers publicly demanded their names be removed from her list and either blatantly or subtly called her a liar and screwball. One powerful Republican pol, State Senator Daniel Webster, not only demanded she remove his name from her list but then told the press that he had endorsed one of her opponents for the Republican nomination, Will McBride. And Webster wasn't the only high profile Republican loudly distancing themselves from Harris and calling attention to her lies.

In highly unusual moves 4 of her congressional colleagues all went out of their way to make it clear that they had not and will not endorse her. Mark Foley, Ginny Brown-Waite, Jeff Miller and Cliff Stearns, all right-wing nut cases like Harris, demanded their names be removed from her website. On the other hand, the Miami Herald found the three lamest and most ignorant valley girls you've ever seen who do support her. The Florida Republican Party, on the other hand, does not.

The state Party leaders sent her a confidential letter which has leaked out. "Katherine, though it causes us much anguish, we have determined that your campaign faces irreparable damage. We feel that we have no other choice but to revoke our support... The polls tell us that no matter how you run this race, you will not be successful in beating Bill Nelson, who would otherwise be a vulnerable incumbent if forced to face a stronger candidate." The latest polls show Harris losing by nearly 40% in the general election-- worse than any other major party candidate running for Senate anywhere.