The Daily Kos takes note of the following exchange from the Tennessee Senate race:

In TN, How does Harold Ford, Jr. beat back an NRSC ad that notes he once partied with Playboy bunnies?

Says Ford: "I'm not going to take a lecture on morality from a party that took hush money from a child predator."

Markos thinks this Ford line is just the bees knees, gushing, “Foley is a great rebuttal to whatever crap the GOP hurls at our candidates… And Foley will continue to pay political dividends to Democrats not because they are taking advantage of a horrible situation, but because Republicans refuse to be held accountable for their screwups.”

While I hate to disagree with Markos, I think his logic is flawed. If the “crap” hurled at Democratic candidates includes charges of serious personal dereliction (which I don’t think is the case with Ford partying with the hotties, but I’m permissive in such regards), the fact that there is was a depraved Congressman in Florida whose sins were even greater hardly seems like a successful umbrella defense.

For more on this subject, someone might want to contact Bob Packwood and find out if the greater sins of Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy offered him adequate shelter from the rain brought on by his follies. He’d probably tell you no.

Complaints? Compliments? Contact me at Soxblog@aol.com