Harold Ford Not Running For Senate In New York

Thank god!

Thank God. And thank you too, Harold. Senator Gillibrand is a good fit for progressive-minded upstate New Yorkers. She's a fighter for women, sportsmen, and the rural areas of our state that most people have never heard of--and by that I mean people from NYC.

She didn't need the aggravation of a primary. Neither did our party.

Now the question is whether that small group in Manhattan with more money than brains will get the message. Gillibrand is a good Senator. One of the few things Paterson did right was appointing her. The state wins with this.

"If I run, the likely result would be a brutal and highly negative Democratic primary."

My ass. This is really what's he's meaning to say: "If I run, I will get my butt handed to me in a humiliating electoral beatdown, and my earnings potential as a Wall Street lobbyist will take a hit as I become a bitch-slapped laughingstock."

I think if he ran, he would have had a very difficult time getting any support from anyone other than a few urban politicians who did not know Harold Ford from Arlen Specter.

The idea that he could not see the problem with telling the Times that he's helicoptered to other boroughs of New York is pretty revealing.

"I've examined this race in every possible way, and I keep returning to the same fundamental conclusion: I should instead run for President of the United States of America in 2012."

I'm kind of sorry I won't be able to pop some corn and grab a soda while watching this unusually scurrilous carpetbagger (masquerading as a Democrat)go down in flames as primary results come in. Oh well...

Mr. Ford of Tennessee is, and always we be, a douche bag.

Here endeth the lesson. Thanks be to G-d.

What a campaign! You woulda thunk he would have learned something about NY while living there. Did he really say that he saw Staten Island from a helicopter? That's what tourists tell their friends when they get back home.

Thank god although I will miss the comic entertainment Ford provided.

Some one could tell him Jim Bunning's seat is up for grabs.

I'm sorry to hear it. There was no danger of Ford being elected to anything here, but his attempts were very entertaining--like a reality show about the world's most arrogant and inept political campaigner.

Good riddance.