Putting a Gloss on the Flip-Flopping Turd

Harold Ford was on the Colbert Report last night, where he tried to put a positive spin on changing all of his positions when he switched from running for the Senate in Tennessee to running for the Senate in New York. Stephen Colbert was respectful, but he did not let Ford get away with it.

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It's pretty much a given that most politicians would push their grandmothers in front of a speeding freight train if doing so would win an election. Last night, Ford had that ethos on full display.