[TwoBear]

Tennessee has I think the two most viable Democrats for 08 and they can't even recognize it. Harold Ford Jr. and Bredesen could both win a good portion of the South and with that combined with the Left Coast and the NE'ers they would capture the electorate.

Meanwhile, the Republicans in Tennessee act more like Democrats, ala Sundquist and Knox County Mayor Ragsdale who extorted the voters to vote for one tax or the other. I will personally campaign against him even if I have to vote for the first Democrat in my life.

I have to give it to Bredesen he is a fiscal conservative unlike Sundquist, the supposed Republican. So far, he hasn't pressed any Democratic social agenda that I'm aware. My only concern is would he break it out in a second term where he has no fears of being reelected.

[goldstategop]

Its a valid concern. But Bredesen will probably have his eye on a presidential run if re-elected and my guess he'll tout his fiscal and cultural conservative message to the national party. If the Democrats don't nominate him, I don't see how they can pick up the heartland in 2008. He bears watching.