Harold Ford, Jr.: Ann Coulter's Favorite Democrat

New Yorkers are getting acquainted with their new neighbor, former Tennessee Congressman and bank executive Harold Ford, Jr. So far, we've learned that he rides around town in a chauffeured car, breakfasts at the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, gets regular pedicures, and visited Staten Island once in his life, by helicopter.

What else do we know about the REAL Harold Ford?

Well, for starters, he's a staunch opponent of abortion rights. He also disapproves of marriage equality for gay couples, opposes public safety laws to keep guns off the streets, and blames immigrants for America's problems.

Doesn't sound like much of a New Yorker, does he?

I grew up in New York. New York is a vibrant, tolerant, diverse community with forward-looking people with progressive social values. That's the New York I recall and love. That New York has nothing in common with Harold Ford, Jr.

Now that he's living in Manhattan instead of south of the Mason-Dixon line, Ford is remaking himself as a pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-gun control progressive. That's why we compiled this video of the REAL Harold Ford, Jr., to show New Yorkers who their latest carpetbagger really is.

Join us and our partners at Planned Parenthood Advocates of New York, NARAL New York and Make the Road New York in spreading the word. Share this video with every fellow New Yorker you know!

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Comments

[Hollyhock988]

01:59 PM on 01/19/2010

Ford sounds like a closet Republican, flipflopping all over the map. He's in his element with the folks at Fox and with his Bush comment. So, Harold, if you're gonna run, run as what you are. An empty suit who is an embarrasment. Another Joe Lieberman.

[capitaldysfunction]

08:05 PM on 01/18/2010

Harold Ford Jr is exactly the kind of corporate Democrat that needs to be excised from the party. Yeah, he's better than a Republican...like Ben Nelson of Nebraska is better. Not good enough for an America crying for change.

[disgruntledprogressives]

05:55 PM on 02/12/2010

I think tha EXORCISM needs to be used along with Excision on Corporate Democrats. But that might mean they couldn't even form a quorum in their own caucus!

[City of Evil]

05:31 PM on 01/16/2010

The party leaders managed to block all the potentially serious challengers to Gillibrand. This is all that's left. If this was a normal election, we'd have a full field of candidates for the primary, and everyone would just ignore Ford.

[Dr. Sam]

04:19 PM on 01/15/2010

A man without character, an opportunist and a political harlot. How else can you aptly desribe a man like this? Democrtas should keep at least ten poles away from him! He may also be a blackmailer in the sense of using this New York ploy to get Obama to appoint him into something or bring him into the inner tent. It wouldn't wash!

[kevski]

04:11 PM on 01/15/2010

Well done Mr. Greenwald!!!!!!!!!!!

[Countess]

03:12 PM on 01/15/2010

Harold Ford is called a moderate by the mainstream media which is all you need to know.

[Dr. Sam]

04:21 PM on 01/15/2010

Countess of what country--banana state?