Rats are grooming Harold Ford for big things.
"Rats are grooming Harold Ford for big things."
-- Ford will probably pick up Frist's seat if he retires in 2006 as expected, but I don't see more than that. The only thing the RAT base likes about him is his skin color. If the democratic party collapses over the next decade as I expect and a new party emerges (it's happened before in US history), Ford would probably be key in that.
I see Blue Dogs joining up with PaleoCon Buchananites and forming a new party. If you ever read Buchanan's "American Conservative", they take more and more left-ish views all the time. We'll have a Socialist Democratic Party, a Conservative Republican Party, and Centrist Populist Party. The only thing stopping such a crack-up of american politics are social issues. But there's nothing that says they'll never "agree to disagree".
Well, maybe the media will keep quiet about his crooked family.
Why groom Jr. when you have Hillery?
They can groom him all they like. As it stands now he is just another well know house democrat. Till he wins a seat higher than congressmen it doesn't matter. The landscape has changed quite a bit since Gore was a Senator. Ford just might have settle for his position as congressman for life.