Posted on 03/01/2010 10:15:36 PM PST by UAConservative
WHEN it was reported two months ago that I was thinking seriously about running for the United States Senate from New York, Democratic Party insiders started their own campaign to bully me out of the race — just as they had done with Representatives Carolyn Maloney, Steve Israel and others.
But as I traveled around New York, I began to understand why the party bosses felt the need to use such heavy-handed tactics: They’re nervous. New Yorkers are clamoring for change. Our political system — so bogged down in partisan fighting — is sapping the morale of New Yorkers and preventing government at every level from fulfilling its duty.
The cruel twist, of course, is that the party bosses who tried to intimidate me so that I wouldn’t even think about running against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who had been appointed to the seat by Gov. David A. Paterson, are the same people responsible for putting Democratic control of the Senate at risk.
These are tough times, and the New Yorkers I have met are facing economic adversity with grace and dignity. They worry about their future, care about their neighbors and hope this storm will pass so they can focus on better days ahead. And yet too few in the Democratic Party are really willing to break with orthodoxy to meet these challenges. We need leaders as good as the people they represent — leaders focused on creating jobs, keeping taxes low, helping small businesses and restoring faith in government.
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Know any Hunks with a truck that speaks well to run on the GOP ticket?
Sure winners in the blue states.
Lemme see, keeping Ford out, running Paterson out. Looks like the Democrat Party is racist (just like it always has been).
New York is virtually a one-party state. What he sees is that Democrats are dysfunctional, but cannot even admit to recognizing it; instead he blames the last vestiges of republican government.
Apologies to Ebonics speakers everywhere... my point is that he did it to raise a bit of cash for the political fund so people keep inviting him to events...
Ford has never been the worst of that Democrat bunch.
GO Pataki go!
Actually, Harold Ford Jr. is one of the better speaking ex-Congresscritters, no matter what race. Please reflect upon what you wrote, and seriously consider hitting the “abuse” button on your own post.
The key hit against him - besides typical, if moderated DemLib tendancies - is that the Memphis political machine (family included) that he came from is so corrupt that he’s tarred by it.
Whether that corruption actually reached Ford Jr. himself, I don’t know, but it’s hard to come out of that environment and NOT have something stinking in the back office.
How's that?
Are you Harry Ried?????
Yep, he milked them for all he could..
My God ... I just used the words "Democrat" and "integrity" in the same sentence(!)
So, this is why he isn't running?
LOL could be, after all he is a democrat!
Don’t be fooled, he’s an empty suit like 0, only he doesn’t need a TOTUS to speak. He speaks one way to blacks, another to whites. And comes from one of the most crookedest families in Tennessee/Memphis.
The people posted to have an inside joke that the people in “certain” states don't care what the candidate stands for. As liberal as they are they will vote for a more conservative candidate if he: 1. looks good (ala JFK) and 2. speaks well (BhO),3. has sexual overtone (WJC) Bayh meets the criteria...
(Scott Brown was the “prefect” candidate for one of those states. If he votes more conservative than a rat even sometimes we've got a bonus.
So GOP needs forget about what the candadate stand for and find candidates that meets their criteria but votes along a more conservative agenda. Question is: Are there any such people in NY? You do realize my tongue is in cheek.....
Itinerant congressman.
Have carpetbag, will travel
Agreed. I overstepped on that post. Ford, while a communist, to paraphrase Harry Ried... well, never mind... Apologies to communist Ford for the dialectic notation. I still hold, however, that he did it to stuff cash into his fund. They all do it...
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