I'm glad the highly principled Lanny Davis has come to the defense of helpless Cory Booker and against Democrats' mean attacks on both the mayor of Newark and Mittens' experience at Bain Capital. It turns out Harold Ford also agrees. So Booker is in the...
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Jon Chait takes an amusing tour of Harold Ford's fantasy world. Ford's level of whorishness is almost weirdly admirable -- there is apparently nothing he won't say or do in.
Shorter Helicopter Harold Ford: It's outrageous that my opponent is trying to actually get the support of other party officials. I have never seen such underhanded tactics!You probably, think I'm.
Harold Ford. I continue to hope he runs; watching him trying to win a closed Democratic primary in New York -- against an incumbent Senator with a strong upstate base! -- by running as a moderate Republican will be comedy gold.
[Photo: Nashville Post via Yglesias.]Given that he'd be drawing dead even if he were running a competent campaign (or even showed some recognition that the race he's considering is a.