Ford Decides Not to Run

[IndianaGreen]

Ford Decides Not to Run

Under intense pressure from Democratic Party officials, Harold E. Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman, has decided not to challenge Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand in the primary this fall, according to two people told of his plans.

He has told friends that, while he is convinced he could prevail against Ms. Gillibrand, he feared the winner of the primary would have little money and remain highly vulnerable to a well-financed Republican challenger at a time when the Democratic party controls the Senate by a slim majority.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/ford-decides-not-to-run/

[rockymountaindem]

1. What's that word again?

Oh yeah...

[saracat]

2. Thank God. What a creep he is. Seriously. his ego still insists he would have won. Bleh.

Good riddence. I wish he would disappear

[CTyankee]

3. two cheers for that...thanks alot harold you creep.

guess the pedicures every week and the chauffeur driven cars and your fricken salary on wall st. didn't have much to dowith it.

Didn't this guy have a "listening tour"? What was it, off the side of his limosine?

enough of you, harold. pack your back for Tennessee. You are goin' home...aren't you?

[whistler162]

4. Obviouslyt he listened to the people who talked to him

in todays meeting in Syracuse.

[DJ13]

5. Ford Decides Not to Be a Loser ......Again

[CTyankee]

8. Har de har har. I hope Joe Scar has dropped him from his MJ roster!

I was getting pretty tired of hearing his little rap.

Ugh and yuck....

[Exultant Democracy]

6. I hope some fool offers him a high paying job in some other country. I'm sick of him.

[winstars]

7. The Bad Part is

that he will be back on MSNBC again. It was great not hearing or seeing him for a couple of months!!! I guess those gay guys he "spoke to" last week were a little too harsh on his sorry ass. (actually, no pun intended)

Don't worry Mika Mouse and Joey Scar will welcome you back and you can again sit on Uncle Pat's knee and spew forth you mediocre at best bullshit. No way he would EVER have gotten anywhere in NY, even against a relatively weak canidate...

[BeyondGeography]

9. Asskicking, denied

And, not Gillibrand's, Harold.

[brand404]

10. Two good news due to the downfall of 2 democrats today

First Arkansas and now this...sadly, and once again, the Obama admin is supporting the corrupt democrat in Ark.

[Jennicut]

11. Well obviously he looked at the poll #'s and realized he had NO shot.

[LiberalFighter]

12. Indiana is available.

[freddie mertz]

13. Which means we'll have to see his stupid face on Morning Joke everyday.

I would have enjoyed watching him run and LOSE, myself.

[saltpoint]

14. This is welcome news among our droogies hereabouts.

Tweren't a Harold Ford fan to the entire group.

Ford would not have been able to shake off the ego-maniac carpetbagging right-wing tool image that he so richly deserves.

I think Gillibrand would have kicked his butt so hard he'd still be airborne 6 years hence.