The Memphis Flyer, who has been even more critical of Harold Ford Junior than I have (if that's possible) has endorsed Ford - for the REPUBLICAN nomination for US Senate!
Their comments speak for themselves:
Congressman Ford, we suggest you immediately declare your candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Senate. Your words, your political contributors, and your votes make it clear that’s where you belong. As the Republican nominee, you would become the favorite to be Tennessee’s next senator. And you could go before the voters as what you are: a centrist who believes in the war in Iraq and who favors the budgetary, economic, and environmental policies of the Bush administration.
Best of all, your move to the Republican Party would clear the air in state politics. In 2006, the voters of Tennessee might be given a real choice at the polls: between a Republican candidate who stands on his record and for the status quo and a real Democratic candidate who might have the political courage to articulate a viable alternative to the mess in which we presently find ourselves at home and abroad.
Let’s make Harry Truman proud and give Tennessee voters a real choice.
Great job, folks!
6 comments:
Rusty,
Um, did you not read the "Harold the Liberal?" post just below this?
Quoting Steve: ...on FOURTEEN critical Democratic issues, the man who wants to be your DEMOCRATIC nominee [i.e., Harold Ford, Jr.] voted AGAINST HIS PARTY HALF THE TIME. That's some kinda liberalism, folks, the kind that should get you BEATEN in a Democratic primary.
Harold Ford, Jr., is much closer to the Rethugnicans than he is to the Democrats on the issues, which is why I've vowed never to vote for Ford for any office whatsoever, as long as I live. And if that means the GOP takes Frist's seat again, so be it. I'd rather have an honest Rethug I didn't vote for in the seat than a dishonest Democrat I didn't vote for.
if I thought that would satisfy his ambition.... :)
The point is that this is a PRIMARY. Junior is of the arrogant belief that he has won the primary already and is concentrating on swing voters (if there are such things any more) and the stray Republican who might consider voting for a Democrat.
He has acted like his base will roll over for him like Don Imus has and will accept that he is the nominee.
BULLSHIT.
Let's see how the public reacts when Uncle John goes to trial (as he will) and the Ford name is dragged through the mud. THEN we'll see if he still thinks he can win.
My buddy polar donkey swears Junior will be out of the race by December 23.
You, sir, are a liar. That is NOT why she left, and I have checked with the campaign to verify it.
You right-wing shills are the ones who are destroying the party of FDR. if you want to sell your soul to the highest bidder like Junior has, be my guest.
What you fail to understand is that, once Ford votes for Harry Reid for Majority Leader, any other votes he has will be to help the wealthy at the expense of the middle-class, and to prolong a war that never should have started.
The Flyer was right, Ford needs to go to the Party where his views are welcome, the GOP.
Why did she leave, Cracker?
My understanding is that her father had been ill for some time, and that Rosalind had been aware that she would need to leave at some point to take care of him, but that she wanted to help set up the campaign.
Now that that's done, she is able to leave.
If you can't get behind the Nazis after they have taken power then you aren't a German.
For the record Bitch and Rusty: Bad is Bad no matter what flag it flies. If you don't support a Democrat who displays Republican values you're--- A GOOD DEMOCRAT. And now a lesson in Quantum physics.
When you give somebody false information thek know LESS than they dod before. So, I'd say all you Junior-clingons are on the way to becoming knownothings.
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