Posted on 12/20/2005 3:39:13 AM PST by mcg2000
"It's not fair they receive so much bad publicity without anyone highlighting all the good work they've done."
Prediction - The CA will step up to endorse Jr in the Senatorial race. The positive article will begin hitting several times per week with anything negative ignored.
Whose seat is he hoping to win? Lamar Alexander?
I can't stand the little creep. I hear him on Imus. I think he's a weasel of the first order.
Bill Frist is vacating ...
The last Democrat who won a state wide race was Gov. Phil Bredesen. The reason being that he did extremely well in Republican East Tennessee. His race with Van Hilleary was characterized by a "me too" campaign in which not much distinction could be drawn between the two candidates. Towards the end of the campaign, Bredesen's promise to reform the Transportation Department and "the arrogance of TDOT" is what tipped the scales in his favor - especially in the Knoxville area.
There will be plenty of differences between Ford and whoever runs against him.
Harold Ford will do well in the Memphis and Nashville, which are traditional Democrat areas. But he will do poorly in the rural sections of Tennessee - especially in the eastern portion of the state.
No way is this guy going to win.
Bredesen defiantly broke campaign finance laws and bought the election. Van Hilleary didn't have the $$ to keep up with his cheating.
The Commie Appeal has been the official water carriers for the Ford family for decades, I don't expect that to change at all. And the dead regularly vote for the Fords as do felons, as do the mentally defecient in nursing homes.
I remember that story the CA wouldn't touch ... how the Ford's had "questionable" voter rides given to elderly with mental conditions.
I can't remember the exact quote ... but, Joe Ford said something to the idea of "just because they are not as sharp as anyone else, doesn't mean they can't vote." lol
He's also the city official who made the biggest stink about losing his car allowance - he can't get a car loan without a co-signer ... and his wife didn't qualify either!!! LOL LOL
But it is better than Wayne (sp?) Ford who was narrowly defeated last year. He flunked out (didn't quite) of HS in the 10th grade.
He called it a racist attack by the GOP to bring into focus his lack of an education. It wasn't quite as elegant as that past sentence! lol
No,Bill Frist. Lamar is up in 2oo8.I can't stand him either. He sure did stick with Lurch in 2004.
I agree. Bredesen also won because of sleezy Rhino Sunquist.
Ford is a weasel, and probably one of the most ambitious politicians in America today. At the ripe young age of 34 he ran for House Minority Leader against the eventual winner Nancy Pelosi, a move that did not endear him to the dem leadership. If I had to guess I'd say Ford is not well liked by his fellow dems, and not well respected by the Repubs. All in all I think it will be a big uphill fight for him to win Frist's senate seat next year.
Ford does tend to vote fairly conservative or what one would perceive as a true Dem voter. He's by no means a hardline socialist or fringe communist as many in the Dem party have become.
He'll carry urban areas in the state and that's it. He'll go down and then appear on FOX News as a host.
"Bredesen also won because of sleezy Rhino Sunquist."
Hilleary lost alot of RINO voters because of his contempt for Sundquist and some key legislators who were running for re-election and were in favor of the income tax.
Anti-income tax Republicans have done well lately and should provide a good base of support for the GOP Senate campaign. Most of the RINOs have been voted out of office. I can name at least 5 from the upper eastern part of the state.
Corruption involving:
Gov Bredesen
Tennessee Waltz
Voter Fraud
Combining:
Income Tax Talk
Less Moralistic Legislation
Increasing Crime
If these can't spell a sweep for the GOP ... it's a an embarrassment to the state.
Ford's jealousy of Obama is palpable. Ford is in the wrong state and he knows it. If he was in Illinois, he'd challenge Reid for Minority leadership of the Senate and then place himself for a V.P. slot eventually. He can't win in Tenn. and it's eating away at him.
Harold Ford Jr., is on FOX & FRIENDS? That shows how astute Harold is. He's the fair haired boy of Don Imus, and is on IMUS frequently, always accompanied by high praise from Imus. He loves the guy!!
Anyone on the right who is fooled by Harold Ford Jr's reasonable sounding rhetoric IS a fool. He's slicker than snot, polished and practiced in the art of political spit and spin, "signifying nothing". He's a charlatan! Just as liberal as every other outrageous, member of the Black Caucus, but smart enough to conceal it. (Have you ever seen Harold cozying up to Sheila Jackson Lee or Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or John Lewis? Ain't gonna happen.)
With Barack Obama a senator, getting all the mushy, gushy love from the MSM, I bet Harold is pea green with envy.
Let's go all the way with this criminal family stuff. That would ensure that Clinton could be retroactively be thrown out of office and that no Kennedy would ever be elected again.
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