Rooks TN-Sen 911 is great, but there is more to TN
Mon Sep 04, 2006 at 09:17:40 AM PDT
While it is true that Harold Ford Jr. is better than a declared republican in the Frist vacated Senate seat, he is far from the progressive side of the democrats and rides the middle fence under the verbage of "bipartisanship" too often.
Alot of Democratic money has poured into his campaign, leaving others high and dry, and it seems a bit obvious that other contenders for the Senate seat were very strongly incouraged to step aside for the sake of the Democratic party and for the win in this Frist Trophy Seat. Was that right, was that fair just because Harold has some "experience"?
Most importantly why doesn't Harold Ford Jr. feel the same way about the seat he vacated and endorse Steve Cohen even though Joe Ford lost to Steve and Jake Ford is running as an independent?
In this case are family ties stronger than what is good for the Democrats in TN or in this country?
Is it that important that the Ford family keep control over West Tennessses?
I don't think it is the right to keep the winner of the primary down, and the only one to get any national help is Harold.
Isn't winning TN-7th important either. Isn't winning a republican seat from Marsha Blackburn important? How come money is pouring into Harold's campaign but yet Bill Morrison doesn't have funds enough for a campaign office? How come keeping Harold's vacated seat TN-09 is not important enough for his relative to step aside from an independent position on the ticket, and not put it in jeopardy of going Republican? Is West Tn the only part of lop-sided help or is the entire state?
For example the NRSC put up this website about Harold - my point being Harold is getting help even if this is the DSCC - is there no help for Cohen or Morrison for house seats?:
http://www.fancyford.com/
Then the DSCC put up this website to counter:
http://www.veryfancyfrist.com/