Harold Ford to Maureen Dowd:
On his embrace of gay marriage, he observed: “There were pastors in my Tennessee district who said you can minister to someone and change their sexual orientation. I just never accepted that. I’m a heterosexual. I don’t know what anyone can say to me to make me sexually be with a man.”
I’m guessing ” How’s about twenty bucks and cab fare?” would get the negotiations started.




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Nup, Ford’s right on this one.
Most straight men don’t have to make a choice to be straight. It’s the men who frump and fret about gays getting married or joining the army who are also the ones insisting that homosexuality is a “lifestyle choice”.
I suspect it’s because they have personally found themselves having to make a lifestyle choice at some point. It’s a pity so many of them choose the “I’m-not-gay-I’ve-just-got-a-wide-stance, officer” lifestyle.
Well, of course Ford’s right on this one. Now.
Which makes one wonder why he was wrong on this one, only 3 or 4 short years ago, when at the tender age of 35 he was insisting that Teh Ghey Lifestyle was something he could be counted on to stand against.
I’m thinking you may have set his price too high at $20 and cab fare, Tbogg.
It was the pedicure discussion that I found highly disturbing.
It does makes sense that Ford Jr. would buy into the whole “pray the gay away” crap — after all, it’s nothing but a bastard cousin of the kind of intellectually shallow, morally corrupt opportunism that seems to appeal to him — as in: “a criminal is just a potential donor whose check you haven’t yet cashed.”
Damn, ur lots and lots darker than Harold Ford.
Gah!
I kinda suspected the whole pedicure thing was going to involve some really fugly foot disease.
Didn’t he say that he didn’t buy into it?
“Well, now that you mention it, I guess there sure is a lot of them there not-heterosexuals in this here New York City. I reckon most of them can vote. In that case, as a native son of New York, I welcome the gay vote and money machine. I mean look at me! This ass didn’t tighten up all on it’s own, knowhaddimean?”
Harold Ford? He was great as Han Solo and Indiana Jones. Who knew he was also a slithering weasel. At least we have those old movies of him to look back on so fondly.
Oh, wait. . . Harold Ford?
Oh, he gets pedicures cause he has foot fungus – that makes it okay then. It’s not like there is any medication or anything that takes care of that sort of thing that is now off patent and available dirt cheap, like say terbinafine (aka Lamisil(tm)), that would cost a fraction of a single pedicure.
Nope, he’s just bein’ considerate to the little woman. THAT kinda man deserves to be a senator.
It’s called a glory hole, Harold.
Or a whorey glow, in his case. (My apologies to honest sex workers everywhere for comparing them to Harold Ford.)
Harold Ford is just a bag looking for a douche.
Not to step on your great observation, but it would definitely start with at least 4 drinks (boy was I drunk last night!). Then work it’s way to negotiating the actual hanky and the panky – which would probably be free by then.
mass wins the internets for today.
For money, Harold Ford would fuck a dog in the middle of Fifth Avenue, whether or not it shook its ass right. He would likewise go down on it or let it bang him. QED.
There’s a great line in Big Love spoken by the polygamist Prophet’s son: “I’m not Gay, I just like to fool around.”
OK, I can’t stand Harold Ford either, but isn’t he saying he doesn’t believe in “pray the gay away”?
Yes, that is what he is saying.
I think the point, however, was that this pronouncement on the subject is not quite consistent with previous ones he has made.
And OT, but I need a puppy update. Still in flyover country?
Another vote here for a pupdate. Been keeping up with this all weekend. Gotta see the little guy…
Yeah, there seem to be a growing number of us waiting for TBTBAL updates…
“Harold Ford to Maureen Dowd.” That’s along the lines of Xavier Hollander to the whore who sucked off Babe Ruth on Aug. 23, 1925.
I don’t know what anyone can say to me to make me sexually be with a man.
If Harold continues the proud tradition of his corrupt relatives, he may one day end up in a jail cell with a very large man who will find just the right words to convince Harold.
Difference between a straight Marine and a gay Marine?
A sixpack.
Nononono… you can’t kiss a straight Marine while you’re fucking him.