After blaming "Party bosses" for trying to bully him out of the race, Ford says he's not running because he doesn't want to hurt the Democratic Party. In other words, the bullying worked! Thank gawd. Actually, we think it was Snake Oil Harry's scary encounter at the Stonewall Dems that scared him out of the race.
They're already celebrating in New York:
It is with great sadness we report that mediocre rich Tennessee person Harold Ford has pre-dropped out of the New York Senate race. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
...ha ha ha. Ford will announce his non-candidacy in a New York Times editorial tomorrow:
I've examined this race in every possible way, and I keep returning to the same fundamental conclusion:
It is with great sadness we report that mediocre rich Tennessee person Harold Ford has pre-dropped out of the New York Senate race. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
...ha ha ha. Ford will announce his non-candidacy in a New York Times editorial tomorrow:
I've examined this race in every possible way, and I keep returning to the same fundamental conclusion: