{"id":16974,"date":"2010-01-26T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16974"},"modified":"2010-01-26T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T14:34:07","slug":"gillibrand-v-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16974","title":{"rendered":"Gillibrand v. Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a pretty good article in Politico <\/a>about the Blue on Blue fight shaping up in the NY Senate race between Kirsten Gillibrand and Harold Ford:<\/p>\n

In a statement, Gillibrand took aim at the Wall Street-friendly Democrats who have pledged to back Ford\u2019s candidacy, including the billionaire husband-and-wife team of Steve Rattner and Maureen White. <\/p>\n

Anyone is \u201cmore than welcome\u201d to run against her this year, she said, adding: <\/p>\n

\u201cThat includes a former Tennessee congressman … and Merrill executive who has an anti-choice and anti-LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] record and whose candidacy is being floated by a few Wall Street insiders.\u201d <\/p>\n

As if to demonstrate their differing styles, the Ford campaign responded to that tough statement with the rhetorical equivalent of a two-by-four. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf the unelected senator and tobacco industry apologist has a new strategy based on distorting Harold\u2019s support for abortion rights and gay rights, then she\u2019s not only a puppet of the party bosses, she\u2019s a desperate liar,\u201d Ford spokesman Davidson Goldin said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve always been a bit of a fan of Ford’s because he is capitalism friendly, and he used to appear on FoxNews even before it became the ratings behemoth it is now. And while I don’t always agree with him on everything, he always seemed very honest.<\/p>\n

Now, my question is this: Just who the hell would vote for Gillibrand? Admittedly I vote based on how I trust and respect more, so I am skewed from the start, but does anyone know a single position that Gillibrand has taken that is non-negotiable? When she represented upstate she was a moderate to conservative who opposed illegal immigration, was pro-gun etc. As soon as she got a Senate seat, she just shifted every position she had to the left. Now, I totally get representing your constituency, but if she is so easily swayed, why get a politician when any hired lawyer would do? She doesn’t seem to have a single position that she espouses that isn’t based on her political situation. Go ahead and show me i am wrong.<\/p>\n

And listen to this mealy mouthed bullshit she espoused to the NYT <\/a>to explain it:<\/p>\n

In a lot of these issues, it\u2019s a case of learning more and expanding my view,\u201d Ms. Gillibrand said in an interview after the meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is this some sort of OJT or something? Why didn’t you learn more about it BEFORE the people of the Albany area hired you to represent them?<\/p>\n

She’s a deplorable person, and I would argue the reason that people hate politicians is because they stand for nothing, and their person exemplar would be this lady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a pretty good article in Politico about the Blue on Blue fight shaping up in … Gillibrand v. Ford<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}