Wednesday, January 13, 2010

A DINO-sore

Harold Ford, Jr., a blue-dog Democrat formerly of Tennessee and MSNBC, currently a vice chairman at much-maligned Bank of America, has moved to New York to take on freshman Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton when she became Obama's SecState.

In his first interview with the NY Times, Ford makes a complete ass of himself. Gawker pounces (their italics):

So, just so we're clear, Harold Ford: you want to run for office in New York. You want people in New York to vote for you. Democrats in New York are the people you are trying to appeal to. And, when asked if you prefer the Giants or the Jets, your answer is that you're better friends with the Tisches than with Woody Johnson, so Giants...? That is an insane answer. That is the answer of a man who has not left his bubble of town cars-to-MSNBC and billionaire Democratic donor friends for six years. Harold: name the quarterbacks, not the owners.

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Oh, he also defends banker bonuses, and his job-creation program is "a huge-tax cut bill for business people," and also " we need to lower the corporate tax rate from 35 to 25 percent." And: a capital-gains tax cut! That is my favorite kind of economic stimulus!


Let's see him generate enough enthusiasm now to win the primary. More interviews like this, please!

Ford's carpet-bagger candidacy is a purely political play. He's trying to brand himself as an insurgent, answerable to no one (well, no one except Wall Street).

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