If I could pick out a group of Democratic media commentators I have come to hate over the last couple of years, Harold Ford would be one of my first round draft picks.

This guy is the very model of the modern, principle-free Clintonian triangulator. He even voted for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage - as a Democrat!.

Now he’s trying to play like he’s some real serious progressive while chomping at the bit to get elected in New York.

To that, I simply say, “Fuck You, Harold Ford“. We don’t forget so quickly.

Update: John Cole has a good Harold Ford test:

How You Know Harold Ford Sucks: I used to like him (as well as Evan Bayh) when I was in full fledged wingnut mode.

That should pretty much seal the deal.

An organization I’m affiliated with endorsed Harold Ford for the U.S. Senate a few days after Harold Ford felt the need to butt into the Connecticut senate race on behalf of fellow reactionary/corporate whore Joe Lieberman… I groused that my organization had endorsed an opportunistic, power-hungry self-aggrandizing prick, one of the only Democrats to have been rated an F in the DMI survey of how House votes impact the lives of the middle class. And I groused when I thought back about Harold Ford, very Lieberman-like, always looks to score points for himself at the expense of fellow Democrats and, more important, at the expense of basic Democratic ideals and values. Yeah, but he’s better than Corker, right. Yeah, yeah.

Although… someone who votes to abolish habeus corpus and to allow George W. Bush, proven fascist scum, to determine who will and will not be tortured with no judicial review whatsoever… I mean Corker, schmorker. Could I ever vote for Harold Ford. I don’t think so.

That made me ill. I moved from grousing and blogging to kvetching. I spoke to some of the other Board members and to the staff, especially after Ford figured out another way to throw a group of fragile, victimized Democrats under the bus by out-homophobing Corker about the New Jersey Supreme Court decision on civil unions. “I do not support the decision today reached by the New Jersey Supreme Court regarding gay marriage. I oppose gay marriage, and have voted twice in Congress to amend the United States Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. This November there’s a referendum on the Tennessee ballot to ban same-sex marriage– I am voting for it.”

Ain’t he tough!