Ah, the high road.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand upped the ante against Harold Ford Jr. tonight, accusing the Tennessee transplant and likely Democratic primary rival of being so far to the right that he’s a member of the other party.
“Looking forward to the #SOTU tonight,” she wrote. “If HF were here, he would probably be sitting on the Republican side.”
The move came a day after she was chided for tweeting a shot over likely primary rival Harold Ford Jr.’s bow.
A day earlier, Gillibrand pushed back at Ford for rapping her as a “parakeet” who follows her party’s line, with a tweet saying she wouldn’t let her six-year-old child resort to such name-calling – a move some Democrats privately called unsenatorial.
Ford has pushed back on Gillibrand, accusing her of playing politics and distorting his record to paint him as something he’s not.
Gillibrand adviser Jefrey Pollock replied, “While Kirsten Gillibrand is pushing a tax cut for businesses that actually create jobs, Harold Ford is advocating for the same failed, trickle down economic policies that help only the wealthy and the powerful big corporations. That’s not desperate, at this point it’s dangerous.”