"I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don’t want to say it the wrong way."

[jefferson_dem]

Harold Ford, Aspiring Senate Candidate, "New Democrat"

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/nyregion/fordexcerpts.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1263409332-KDQnW3V3U+H/+ugGosk+tQ

[Unvanguard]

1. Bullshit. n/t

[gateley]

4. +1

[Mz Pip]

2. How about "opposite marriage"

This guy really seems to be trying to reinvent himself.

[Doctor_J]

3. Or I'm not against it. Or I might be for civil unions, or not against those too,

if you see what I mean.

There should be an Urban Dictionary entry for DLC Speak. Maybe "Turd Way Politics"

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. Fuck Ford but I am sympathetic to the language thing

I try to say "same-sex" marriage or "marriage equality" but "gay marriage" is so much part of the language now that it's hard to avoid.


Needless to say, the only marriage Harold Ford supports is the marriage of Wall Street and the Federal government.

[Jennicut]

6. Sure..is it me or is he like the Dems version of Romney?

[marmar]

7. Harold Ford is for whatever he thinks will get him elected.....

In TN, he was pro-Gawd and anti-gay marriage.....

now he's in a New York State of Mind.

[Cha]

8. Mr slimeball dinobagger.

[Demoiselle]

9. Mr. Slimeball Dinobagger?

Sounds like a character from the Harry Potter series. The X-rated version.
It fits him. Something essentially sleazy about him.

[Arkana]

10. *facepalm*

Goddamnit, he couldn't be more transparent if he tried.

[Forkboy]

11. LOL...what a smeghead.

[Ter]

12. Then why didn't he say it during his previous Senate race?

Someone without convictions is worst than someone with the wrong opinion who truly believes it.

[marshall]

13. The current term of choice is "marriage equality"

That's what they use on FSTV.

[boppers]

14. Then there's this gem:

Q. Partial-birth abortion. You have objections to it?

A. I do.

A. And I still want more jobs for New York City.
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:wtf:

[VMI Dem]

15. Wow. Harold Ford bucking the President on gay civil rights?

Heh.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. No actually he is imitating Obama's methods

In the South, rally with McClurkin type evangelicals and praise them as good people who will always be at your table,then up North, describe rural people as clinging to religion and fear of those unlike themselves. Worked like a charm for Obama. That's President Fierce Opponent/Advocate now. But who's counting.