So Ford is asking Kerry to apologize. Great way to stick together,

[babylonsister]

Dems. Does this suggest a possible trend for Ford, slamming a fellow Dem, or should we chalk it up to his pre-election 'platform'? Ford disappoints.

[Beelzebud]

1. This is how we snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[whistle]

2. Harold Ford is the turncoat, do you have a link to Ford suggesting this?

[Connie_Corleone]

5. It's in Late Breaking News.

[AzDar]

3. Doesn't he also support Joe-hole Lieberman? Harold, dear..just STFU!!

[LonelyLRLiberal]

4. Ford is just trying to keep from losing votes.

I don't blame him. Whatever works for his campaign is okay. The goal is to get elected and help the Dems get a majority in the Senate.

The only way this is a problem is if it backfires.

[sampsonblk]

9. Whatever works for his campaign is okay ?

Friend, this is unprincipled and unwise, to quote the Chinese. Ford may keep from losing votes for himself, but he harms the the other candidates and the party by legitimizing what we all agree is just a poor choice of words.

This could ruin Kerry, if left to fester. And it has already harmed his ability to help our candidates down the stretch. If true, this is NOT GOOD.

On edit: Too dramatic. I turned down the volume.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

16. Moot point now, since Kerry has now apologized to the troops for the misinterpretation.

I respect your opinion, but politics is nasty business, and this is a blip. I don't think this could ruin Kerry. If that's the case, Bush's countless stupid remarks would have ruined his entire illegitimate regime long ago.

[CTLawGuy]

10. maybe Ford should just become a republican

I mean he has to do what he has to do to win :eyes:

[LonelyLRLiberal]

17. You know that's a little extreme.

He is just trying to quash any use of Kerry's remark against his campaign. Didn't he say that he knows Kerry was not talking about the troops?

[MoonRiver]

25. Did he say that? The quotes I've seen seem to indicate otherwise.

FU Harold Ford. :mad:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

6. I am so sick and tired of this sort of behavior by

the Democrats. IMO, Harold Ford STFU and stay on his message in TN.

This reminds me of when my Senator Dick Durbin was pressured by Lil Rich Daley, of all people, to apologize for his remarks about the treatment of the detainees in Gitmo.

Has Harold Ford ever served?? What his record on veteran's affairs?

Harold MYOB!!!

[INdemo]

7. If the apology is worded properly that may or may not quite the critics

But I'm thinking apologizing my be the only way to put this issue to rest.the Republicans are having a field day with this and the media just wont let this die..Especially CNN
You can bet Rove will get all the mileage out of this he can..

However......The media has failed to mention one word about Bush's comments about voting for Democrats.."A vote for the Democrats is a vote for terrorism".......Nothing was mentioned a all about this....

[babylonsister]

13. And apology is not the answer; pls. read this

as it's worded so much better than a lame attempt from me:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2536770

[BeyondGeography]

8. All that says is TN is a tough place for Dems

which we already knew.

[ProSense]

11. IMO,

Ford needs to win, but will calling on Kerry to apologize help? If it does it's a good thing! I doubt this will have any impact, he'd be better off focusing on Iraq!

A new CNN poll has Corker leading Ford 52 percent to 44 percent among likely voters with a margin for error at 4 percent. When sampling registered voters, however, Corker’s lead is just 47 percent to 45 percent with a margin for error of 3 percent...The Ford campaign pointed toward a Wall Street Journal/Zogby poll released Tuesday that had Corker with a 49 percent to 48 percent lead and a margin for error at 3.3 percent.

In a debate a day earlier, Mr. Chafee signaled an openness to calling for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down; Mr. Whitehouse has been pressuring Mr. Chafee to do just that in his television advertisements. In Tennessee, Bob Corker, a Republican candidate for Senate, said it was time for a new plan and a change in leadership at the Pentagon.

Kerry was absolutely right to stand up! This will backfire on the RW idiots!

[Totally Committed]

12. I know we need him to win in TN, but it doesn't change the fact that

Ford and his politics disgust me.

TC

[babylonsister]

15. I'm not feeling the love either. He's an opportunist, pure

and simple. I never have liked him much (he used to be a frequent guest on talk shows, including Imus) but have held my tongue, hoping he'd get elected and do the right thing. I guess I hope for too much.

[madfloridian]

14. I want Ford to apologize for not standing up for all of us.

Kerry, women, gays, whatever other groups he has dissed. Even Howard Dean, whom he said was not welcome in TN...and he said it on Imus, no less.

Apologize, Harold.

Disclaimer: if I were in TN I would vote for him.

[colonel odis]

18. i voted for him the other day and wish i could have my vote back.

pandering, pure and simple, by a man in a close race.

of course, he could have stood up and explained to the dimwitted of this land, i.e., republicans, that kerry's remark wasn't directed at the troops but at bush. i think that's the line the dems should have taken.

instead, they're devouring each other and proving themselves to be fools. they're also showing why they probably won't win next tuesday or in 08. they don't have the singleminded, relentless purpose that republicans, for all their repulsiveness, have.

fuck harold ford for saying kerry should apologize. if he wins, he ain't my senator.

[Clark2008]

20. Geesch..

Let me tell you something - Harold Ford is infinitely more popular in Tennessee than Kerry.

Gnaw on that awhile.

[colonel odis]

22. gnaw on this: you may be right. but that's not what this tennessean

was talking about.

[Clark2008]

19. Did we really nee ONE more thread on this subject?

Seriously - weren't the brazillion before this one enough?

And how come no threads on Cardin and Tester calling out Kerry MUCH worse than Ford did?

Ford merely said Kerry didn't intend to say it THAT way and should apologize if it was misconstrued.

Cardin and Tester said MUCH worse.

[cali]

21. Why the DU focus on Ford when Levin

Tester, Clinton and several other prominent dems have also said the same thing? Seems a wee bit hypocritical to me.

[Mass]

23. When this thread started, Ford was the only one.

There has been threads about the three other ones though.

[Geek_Girl]

24. He has too

If he lets this go he looses TN. Plain and simple. You don't know how crazy people get about shit like this around here.

[IndianaGreen]

26. Harold Ford is a chicken hawk

What can you expect from someone like him but his bending over to another of Bush's BOHICA demands.

[AtomicKitten]

27. Why do you expect other politicians to

back up Kerry's misstep particularly when doing so would very likely be detrimental to their chances next week?

This isn't about Kerry, for crissakes. There is a very important election around the corner and as far as I'm concerned Kerry flubbed and whatever the rest of the Dems need to do to get beyond it is fine by me and certainly something they should not be attacked over.

Ya know, I gave Kerry every benefit of the doubt, but it's really pissing me off that people are attacking Ford and Hillary now. They didn't fuck up.

[elperromagico]

29. You do have a point.

We don't need a rerun of Bush v. Kerry. I didn't like the way the movie ended last time.

[elperromagico]

28. If he loses to Corker, he can always get a job shaming Democrats.

The Democratic Party needs a new self-appointed moral scourge now that Lieberman's gone freelance.