There's only one context you could put that in to make it

sort of Right.  (Pardon the language)

If Harold Ford said...
"Of all the sh__y sh__y Republican congressmen in Washington... There is not a better Congressman in Washington than Chris Shays."

Then maybe they'd be taking it out of context.  

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by: JeremiahTheMessiah @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 17:35:34 PM UTC

Ford

Harold Ford was an outstanding congressman! He stood up for what he believed in and didn't back away from his principles. As for the Shay's comment, that is his opinion. I could say that there is no better senator than Olympia Snowe, so what it is my opinion. Shays has an almost left leaning record and often votes with the democrats.  

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by: BLUEMN4EVER @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 18:27:44 PM UTC

Just out of curiousity...

Do you happen to run an advocacy organization with the word Democratic in the title? No?  Never mind.

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by: Gabe @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 19:52:08 PM UTC

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No it is not just his opinion

It would be just your opinion and that would be fine.  Coming from a former congressman who is supposed to have a (D) next to his name it is a lot more.  It is a direct play against team Blue and for team Red.  We should not forget it the next time Harold Ford wants a job with the party or our donations to run for office somewhere.

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by: Johnny C @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 20:51:59 PM UTC

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Granted,

Ford's doing this is beneficial to the Republican party in the long run--keeping a relatively reasonable (relative to the rest of the party) moderate congressperson in office.  One could argue that encouraging moderate congresspersons in both parties is good for the nation as a whole.

On the other hand, that doesn't mean that the Republicans won't learn their lesson by completely falling to the Democrats and then having to figure out how to pick up the pieces of their broken party afterwords.

party: Democratic, ideology: moderate, district: CT-01

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by: Glenn Magus Harvey @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 21:06:11 PM UTC

Yup

Let some moderate Republicans run in primaries in 2010, get spiked by their own base, lose.  Then try again in 2012, get spiked by their own base, lose.  Maybe by 2014 they can start surviving primaries and winning some seats back from us.  

28, gay guy, Democrat, CA-08

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by: texas dem @ Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 09:50:58 AM UTC

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