Look at this crock of shit from Harold Ford, April 2009:
"After long thought, consultation and prayer with my wife, Emily, I've decided now is not the right time to re-enter elected politics. Therefore, I won't be a candidate for Governor this year.
I want to personally thank the many across our state and country who urged me to run for Governor. There will be another race and time to ask for your support.
This wasn't about the governor's race in New York, though he pretends to have been living in New York at the time. This was Tennessee, where he was supposedly not living. And he didn't say, "I can't make the race, because I'm getting my pedicures and helicopter rides in Manhattan these days." Instead, he promised them a race in the future, while using words like "our state" and "my love for Tennessee" and promising to "continue teaching at Vanderbilt University".
He desperately wants to be the GOP's 42nd Senator, shaping himself in the mold of Scott Brown and Joe Lieberman. The Wall Street Journal is ecstatic:
His voting record as a five-term congressman was more moderate—he prefers the term "independent"—than those of his fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus. While in office, Mr. Ford supported normal trade relations with China, prayer in schools, a repeal of the death tax, and a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning. In 2002 he even challenged Nancy Pelosi for minority leader because he believed his party was moving too far to the left.
And why shouldn't they? Ford hopes to provide much needed-representation for those downtrodden Manhattanites who commute to their Wall Street jobs by helicopter.
To address the anxiety Americans are feeling, Mr. Ford thinks that the White House needs to focus squarely on the economy. "First we need to cut taxes for businesses in the country, small and large," he says. "We ought to provide a six-month exemption from the payroll tax for all firms less than five years old. We ought to extend the current capital gains and dividend tax rates through 2012. We ought to make permanent all the research and development tax credits for businesses making those investments. And we ought to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%."
Wall Street investors might see starbursts when Harold whispers sweet nothings about capital gains tax rates, but New York is far bigger than his hedge fund buddies.
I can't wait for Ford to run. I'm desperate for him to run. We can never have too much hilarity around here.