Newsweek Cover "Not Your Daddy's Democrats"

Press Release Source: Newsweek


NEWSWEEK COVER: Not Your Daddy's Democrats
Sunday October 22, 2:09 pm ET
Newsweek Takes an In-Depth Look at Harold Ford Jr., and How His Race Could Win Congress for The Dems; Ford on His Tactics in Race: 'Just Let Me be Myself' ---- Newsweek Examines 'Campaign 2006' and What a Democratic Takeover Could Mean for Congress


NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Senate Democratic contender Harold Ford Jr. believes that conservative stands, coupled with an unrelenting attack on his Republican opponent-former mayor of Chattanooga-Bob Corker's positions on Iraq, homeland security and immigration, is the only way a Democrat can win in today's conservative Tennessee. "If I was doing the textbook thing that Democrats do," Ford tells Newsweek in the current issue, "I'd say, 'Republicans want to short Social Security, they want to rob poor children of their college education, they want to deny families the education system.' Don't get me wrong, there's some truth to that. But that's not me. Just let me be myself." Democrats, even liberal ones, will let Ford be whoever he wants to be, for one simple reason: he may deliver them the Senate. In the current issue, General Editor Jonathan Darman takes a behind-the-scenes look at Ford, whose strength in the race springs in part from being that rare Democrat who is unencumbered by complexity and contradiction-with his party and with himself. Two weeks before the midterm elections, the Dems' fate lies not in the hands of the party's much-dissected antiwar left but with a handful of careful, calculating centrists like Ford.


Newsweek link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15366095/site/newsweek/

"who's your daddy" for the next few decades

bwahahahhaha

... catering to religious constituents, as the key to Democrats retaking the Senate and House. What a surprise. Let's all just be good little Demmies and run to the middle, now.

Just like the terrorists won.

They subverted US.

:cry:

... of the neo-con, theo-con Right.

He also voted for the "torture bill" (MCA of 2006), and the bill authorizing use of force against Iraq (2002).

...did Kerry lose TN?

???

:puke:

Not about instantaneous transportation to an ideal world.

Democratic power will create that change in direction that may eventually lead us to that better place. Ford is better than his opponent. That's good enough for me.

But I hope somewhere down the road there is a plan to rehabilitate the word "liberal."

ignore everything these traitors say and concentrate on what dope they're pushing and why....Ford's black, and quite reactionary, and newsweek is a racist reactionary org. period
http://www.blackcommentator.com/79/79_fr_ford.html
(it was newsweek, plus the rest of the pigmedia, who put bush into office and protected him all these years, yet here we are eating outta their bloody hands)
thanks for posting this truthpusher....

doesn't need the votes (or the campaign contributions,) of millions of women who believe in reproductive freedom.

Julie