Harold Ford, get your Blue Dog self out

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While it's true that Democrats are a 'big tent' party, and we don't have purity tests like the Republicans, Harold Ford's comments in yesterday's New York Times are so blatantly out of step with Democrats' values and so wildly in lockstep with the Republicans that it leaves me wondering whether he's really a stealth candidate for the GOP.

In one single column, he calls for tax cuts, some vague call for job creation (which is really just his way of saying he has no idea what to do but we should really do something), a scaled-down brand-new health care reform program that includes tort reform , and immigration reform but only immigration reform for those undocumented workers who actually attend and graduate from universities.

Funny, where have I heard similar talking points? Oh yeah, that's right.  Charles Krauthammer, champion of Sarah Palin and George W. Bush. 

Somewhere, there's got to be a line, and Ford has crossed it. If he hasn't figured out that the unrest and dissatisfaction has to do with an electorate who feels the President hasn't gone far enough left instead of right, he's unfit to even step into Hillary Clinton's old district, much less run for office there. Read PunditMom's post for more reasons.

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Comments

[annie]

I don't think the electorate can be trusted to articulate what they really want. All they really have ever seemed to want is a country that someone else takes care of so they can live their lives out in the ignorant bliss of a 100 or so mile radius of their own home.

Scott Brown, after all, won not in a small way due to playing on the free of entitlement loss (MA's health insurance program) if the current HCR bill in Congress came to be. There's nothing particularly Republican about that - though they don't see to notice the irony.

[magpie]

And if he does want to run, he can run in Tennessee - where he's from.

[PunditMom/Joanne Bamberger]

It's a scary proposition. I just hope we don't abandon Gillibrand the way Coakley was. Not that I think either Gillibrand or Coakley are perfect candidates, but Ford gives new meaning to the word carpetbagger.

[Karoli]

annie, I do not view Scott Brown's election as a trend. It was an outlier, but there's no question that a complacent campaign contributed to the result.

PunditMom, I think it's up to us to make sure that Gillibrand has the full support and voice of Democrats across the nation. No way I want Mr. GOPwannabe taking her place in the Senate.