So I just finished reading Harold Ford Jr.'s op-ed in the New York Post in which he panders like it's nobody's business goes down the checklist of what he thinks liberal New York Democrats want in a Senator and name-drops Schumer and Moynihan as role models. After vomiting a little in my mouth, I agree with Alan van Capelle- Ford is a snake oil salesman.
You know what the whole thing reminds me of? What my mom, a Clinton fan, wrote to me when McCain picked Sarah Palin as VP:
I take it as a slap to women everywhere, it's saying you want a woman on the tix, here's one. They're all interchangeable. Never mind her measly BA degree and her 1.5 years, she's female and that'll sell the tix, especially to Hillary fans. Bull, isn't it, it's warped white conservative male thinking I swear.
Harold Ford, Jr. thinks New York Democrats are stupid. Like, you want a Democrat who says he's liberal? Here's one on paper! That they'll just read a checklist of progressive issues in his stupid op-ed, read that he is suddenly in favor of marriage equality after flip-flopping on the Federal Marriage Amendment, voting twice for it, and then not announcing his newfound position in 2007, 2008, 2009 or early this year, and fall in love.
You know what I bet happens next? That he goes on a "listening tour" of upstate New York, just like Caroline Kennedy, where he spends 30 minutes each with a couple of mayors and leaves Buffalo with a cute little Buffalo pin on his jacket and pretends he knows anything at all about the state of New York. Oh, and just like her, hesitates on whether to take questions, worried he might be asked about something on which he has no clue.
The demagoguery is just stunning. Shame on him.
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